PANCHAYATS AND BUILDING OF MODEL VILLAGES

The Panchayati Raj Institutions as constitutional bodies have been providing space not only for the participation of the community for identification of their needs, resources, planning, implementation, monitoring and conducting social audit, but also for political empowerment of the lower castes, tribals and women. Interestingly, after constitutional amendments for the decentralization of governance, some of the states like Kerala and many Gram Panchayats in different parts of the country, have excelled in terms of human and social development. When we examine the experiences of these panchayats, it reveals that it has been happening because of the participatory planning from the below, devolution of funds, functions and functionaries, self-generation and productive usage of the resources, and effective participation of the community.
The present book, which is a compilation of the Model Gram Panchayats from different parts of the country, can be used as an excellent guide for spreading the message to build further such model panchayats in the country.

Contents
1 Introduction / M.V. Rao and E. Venkatesu
2 Role of Gram Sabha in Promoting Model Village in India / Mahi Pal
3 Model Villages under Panchayati Raj Institutions / Neelam Yadava
4 Building of Model Villages through Panchayati Raj Institutions / E. Venkatesu
5 Gram Panchayat Initiative for Building a Model Village / Neela Mukherjee and Madhumita Parihari
6 Panchayati Raj Institutions and Village Development / Yatindra Singh Sisodia
7 Developing Bilaspur Gram Panchayat as Model Village through Sanitation / Manju Panwar and Jitendra Kumar
8 Gangadevipally / Kusam Raja Mouli
9 An Incredible Model Village in Tamil Nadu / S. Mariyarathinam and D. Swamikannan
10 Panchayats and Model Cabinet / V. Bhanu Prakash and V. Siva Sankara Prasad
11 Improving Panchayat Service Delivery / Ramprasad Pole
12 Impact of Water Purification Plant / B.V. Raghavulu, G. Parvathi and M. Veera Prasad
13 Cheriyanad / Sindhu Thulaseedharan
14 Model Gram Panchayat / Umamaheshwara Reddy
15 Building of Model Villages in Gujarat / Dinesh P. Kapadia and Pragna Trivedi
16 Performance and Issues of Gram Panchayat / P. Sundara Raj
17 e-Panchayat / Thappy Rehmathullah
18 Service Delivery through Decentralisation / V. Chandranna
19 Building of Model Villages through Panchayati Raj Institutions / Bharat Patel
20 Building Sustainable Model Villages through Micro-enterprise Development / Jabir Ali
21 Panchayats and Rural Entrepreneurship / Kush Kalra
22 Making of a Model Village / R.R. Prasad
23 PURA / K. Venkatesan and V. Ponraj
24 The Art of Living’s Approach for Building of Model Villages / Madhav Pol and Sheel Parekh
25 AKRSP (I)’s Experience of Building Model Village / Janmejaya Mishra
26 The Role of Gram Sabha in Building of Model Villages / Aditi Jha, Manika Mishra, Ankit Grewal and Sharad Jain
27 Data and Decision-Making Indicators, Actionable Data, and ‘Model Villages’ / Diwakar K. Vadapalli and Claudia J. Coulton