03-30-2023, 05:19 AM
Evolution of URBAN LOCAL BODIES in INDIA
Evolution of Local Government
‘Local Government’ has a variety of meanings. Many attempts have been made to define the term by the different theoreticians and practitioners of public administration. It might be thought that local government could be easily defined, but this is not the case. Renowned jurists have admitted the difficulties in proposing a sound definition. For example, Sir Ivory Jennings states:
“The explanation of these difficulties of definition lies in the fact that local government is not a logical division of government…As soon as the jurist sets to work to provide his logical categories, he finds that local government is not one of them. The result is that draftsmen of Acts of Parliament avoid such juristic distinctions”
The term “Local government’ has two words, ‘Local’ and ‘Government”. The term ‘Local’ relates to specific portions of the country defined by Locality, implying a definite area and the population living therein. The ‘Local’ institutions are concerned with the needs and problems of the area thus defined. The second word ‘government’ refers first to its representative character as it has to form part of the constitutional structure of the country, and in the second place to the ‘autonomy’ it possesses. The local authorities are the same flesh and blood as the sovereign, but to a limited extent. Each council is elected (directly or indirectly) by the people of an area, and it is answerable to that local
electorate, just as the sovereign is ultimately responsible to the national electorate. Thus, local government becomes an integral part of democracy.
The local authorities can be called local states. The citizens of a country are on the one hand, organized as a national state and on the
other as local states. In India they are organized at a middle level, also known as province/state. The local organizations, thus, have three
outstanding features”
1. They are allowed to exist for purposes specified by the national state;
2. each local state resembles the national state within the given jurisdiction, both having a representative institution, executive machinery
and the power of issuing commands, which the inhabitants of the area have to obey; and
3. they are used for certain purpose as agents of national state.
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Evolution of Local Government
‘Local Government’ has a variety of meanings. Many attempts have been made to define the term by the different theoreticians and practitioners of public administration. It might be thought that local government could be easily defined, but this is not the case. Renowned jurists have admitted the difficulties in proposing a sound definition. For example, Sir Ivory Jennings states:
“The explanation of these difficulties of definition lies in the fact that local government is not a logical division of government…As soon as the jurist sets to work to provide his logical categories, he finds that local government is not one of them. The result is that draftsmen of Acts of Parliament avoid such juristic distinctions”
The term “Local government’ has two words, ‘Local’ and ‘Government”. The term ‘Local’ relates to specific portions of the country defined by Locality, implying a definite area and the population living therein. The ‘Local’ institutions are concerned with the needs and problems of the area thus defined. The second word ‘government’ refers first to its representative character as it has to form part of the constitutional structure of the country, and in the second place to the ‘autonomy’ it possesses. The local authorities are the same flesh and blood as the sovereign, but to a limited extent. Each council is elected (directly or indirectly) by the people of an area, and it is answerable to that local
electorate, just as the sovereign is ultimately responsible to the national electorate. Thus, local government becomes an integral part of democracy.
The local authorities can be called local states. The citizens of a country are on the one hand, organized as a national state and on the
other as local states. In India they are organized at a middle level, also known as province/state. The local organizations, thus, have three
outstanding features”
1. They are allowed to exist for purposes specified by the national state;
2. each local state resembles the national state within the given jurisdiction, both having a representative institution, executive machinery
and the power of issuing commands, which the inhabitants of the area have to obey; and
3. they are used for certain purpose as agents of national state.
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