Local Bodies and Economic Development in Special Reference of Dewas Municipal Corporation, Dewas (M.P.)

The Government has experimented with parallel community-based organisations in its attempt to bring direct democracy to the people. This often leads to work at cross-purposes; progress of administrative and financial devolution has been tardy. In its concept of the district government and devolution of powers, the state government has identified the District Planning Committee (DPC) constituted under Articles 243-ZD of the Constitution, as the institutional base of the district government and chief mechanism for the devolution of powers. A DPC would be bogged down by so many administrative, executive and financial functions of different departments of the state government and will have to take back seat.