Future of Computerisation in Institutions of Higher Learning

Panchayati Raj, which has become the third tier of governance with the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, is of far-reaching significance for decentralised governance in India. The author takes the reader on a journey into the vicissitudes of local government in India, from the years of Community Development through the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee, the post-Nehruvian days of its decline and the re-emergence of the second generation with the Ashoka Mehta committee report, culminating in