Decentralisation

The progress of administrative decentralisation has been slow and uneven across the country. Among our efforts is to understand why the devolution of the 3 Fs - functions, funds and functionaries to appropriate levels of local government is delayed. By building perspective on how it has been envisioned by policy architects versus the internal logic of the administrative apparatus as it exists in reality, we are able to trace the practical implementation of Government of India’s major welfare programmes.