Deprivation Its Social Roots and Psychological Consequences

No other socio-political programme launched by the Government in Independent India had generated so much enthusiasm and participation of the people as the Panchayati Raj Institutions. But the sad irony is that when the potential of these institutions was being liberated, a contrary move was contrived towards their decline and possible demise. The Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act, 1989, assumes special significance against the background of recent efforts by several other State governments to