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LESSON NOTES
CHAPTER- LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
1. Local government is the government at the village and district level involving
the day- to-day life and problems of ordinary citizens.
2. Local government ensures people’s participation in the meaningful manner to
run the administration.
3. The development at any place can be done through the cooperation of the people
living at that particular place only.
4. Earlier the self-governing village communities existed in the form of ‘Sabhas’
(Village assemblies) and later on it was converted into ‘Village Panchayat’ (an
assembly of five members)
5. Under the Government of India Act 1979, Village Panchayats were established
in a number of provinces and continued after the Government of India Act, 1935.
6. During India’s freedom movement, Mahatma Gandhi strongly pleaded for
decentralization of economic and political power to ensure local involvement to be
successful.
7. The Central or State Governments cannot tackle the problems faced by people in
such a large country, hence the involvement of local authorities was felt to sort out
the local problems known as local self-government.
8. Local self-government manages the local affairs by the representatives who
knows the best about local needs and aspiration of people.
