Analyse the role of local bodies in providing good governance at local level and bring out the pros and cons merging the rural local bodies with the urban local bodies.
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Gives the governance problem of settlements between rural and urban status and constitutional tools to reclassify them.
- Article 243Q provides a Nagar Panchayat for a 'transitional area', an area in transition from rural to urban.
- In May 2016 the then Ministry of Urban Development asked 28 States to recognise census towns as urban areas, arguing a statutory urban local body is needed for planned development.
- MoHUA has proposed using satellite imagery of built-up areas and a new 'transitional areas' category; the RGI is keeping the old definition for Census 2027.
Also related
- 74th Amendment
The 74th Amendment set up a separate urban tier, which frames the case for and against merging it with rural bodies.