TY - BOOK AU - Jayal, Niraja Gopal, AU - edited by AU - Prakash Amit AU - K. Sharma Pradeep TI - Local governance in India: : decentralization and beyond SN - 9780195692969 U1 - 320.80954 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford Univ. Press KW - Local governannce KW - India KW - Congresses Decentralization in government KW - Congresses KW - ndia KW - Politics and government N1 - Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Selection by Custom and Election by Statute : Interfaces in Local Governance in Karnataka -- 3. Van panchayats in Uttaranchal -- 4. Writers' Buildings and the Reality of Decentralized Rural Power : Some Paradoxes and Reversals in West Bengal -- 5. Panchayats, Bureaucracy, and Poverty Alleviation in UttarPradesh -- 6. Decentralization and Disease Control Programmes : The Case of Filariasis -- 7. The New Segregation in Primary Education : Implications for Local Governance -- 8. Crisis of governance and People's alternatives : Schooling system in some villages of western Up -- 9. People -centered development and participatory Urban governance : The mumbai experience -- 10. urban futures of poor groups in chenni and bangalore : How these are shaped by the relationship between -- 11. Developing a quantitative framework for determining devolution of funds from the state government to Local bodies -- 12. Urban Local bodies and district administration : An empirical examination of some issues relating to urban water supply in karnataka -- 13.Mainstreaming gender in district plans in M.P.-- 14. Accountability in local governance : Infrastructure development in the industrial Townships of faridabad and gurgaon -- 15. Transparency, accountability , and governance : Local government in Kerala and Karnataka -- 16. The salience of Poverty , Participation , Transparency, and security in good urban governance -- ER -