e- GramSwaraj portal and Swamitva Scheme on National Panchayats Day on 24th April
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address village panchayats across the country to mark the National Panchayati Raj Day. Mr Modi will also interact with various participants through video conferencing in view of lockdown.
Imp Points
The Prime Minister will launch a unified e-GramSwaraj Portal and Mobile App on the occasion.
Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI)
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If we would see our dream of Panchayat Raj, i.e., true democracy realized, we would regard the humblest and lowest Indian as being equally the ruler of India with the tallest in the land.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) is a system of rural local self-government in India. Local Self Government is the management of local affairs by such local bodies who hav
Responding to COVID-19 at the grassroots
By,T.R. Raghunandan is Former Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Karnataka, and Former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayat Raj, Government of India
Introduction
Mahatma Gandhi envisioned that a free India would rest on a foundation of gram panchayats, village republics that governed locally and epitomised Swaraj in practice.
B.R. Ambedkar was sceptical; he described the caste-ridden, unequal village society as a cesspool. Yet,