The experiment of democratic decentralisation in Kerala is now nearly two decades old. The present study focuses on one of the weakest but an overwhelmingly important links of the democratisation project, viz., its failure ...

A reliable and time series financial reporting is an essential prerequisite for accountability, fiscal management, research, proper monitoring, public scrutiny and policy formulation. In India budget documents at the ...

The Kerala experience in the institutionalization of the new panchayat raj as well as its novel idea of ‘people’s planning’ as a means for decentralized development is widely appreciated and acknowledged. This study ...

The people’s planning programme in Kerala, the latest episode in the state’s experiments with democracy, is in the shadow of a bureaucratic capture. Government orders and guidelines set from above appear to have subdued ...

There are two quite distinct perspectives on decentralization; one sees decentralization primarily as a rearrangement of functions, powers and resources within the different tiers of the State while the other sees it as a ...