Ayesha Nacario Gupta & Raj Laxmi, Amity University, Rajasthan
ABSTRACT
India is a democratic country home to 138 crore people. With the said data, we can easily determine that India is vast in terms of both population and surface area. Due to its vastness, it became difficult for the Central government to function and make decisions that were beneficial for all citizens of India. It was important to build a governmental organization that could govern various parts of the country in a more personalized manner to fulfill its true needs and to reach even the smallest of the territories of the nation for better governance. The whole idea behind the formation of local self-government was to distribute the duties of the state and to reduce the burden of the central government in a way to execute various measures and govern a particular territory effectively and efficiently in all parts of the country. However, with this also came certain problems. Even though there are various benefits to local self-government, we came across problems such as scarcity of finance as there were more problems and less funds to eliminate them, less delegation of power which led to corruption, less accountability and many more. It was found necessary to understand those challenges in detail because local self-government plays a significant role to promote democratic thoughts which gives a sense of equality and liberty among people. Therefore, this article discusses in detail the various challenges and issues of the same by referring to second hand data available. Further, we shall also discuss certain measures that can help in correcting them.
Keywords: Local-self Government, Governmental organization, challenges, problems, issues.
