Administrative Decentralisation in India – The 3Fs

Mandakini Devasher Surie
(2010)

In 1992, the Government of India passed the 73rdand 74th amendments to adopt a decentralised model of governance.The Panchayat Briefs series examines the impact of these reforms in the context of new research on decentralisation in India. The second in this series examines the state of administrative decentralisation in India and the extent to which states have devolved the 3F’s (functions, funds and functionaries) to Panchayats