The Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 was the third attempt on the part of the Government of India to strengthen the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). Prior to that, two earlier attempts made in this...

Urban water supply and sanitation in India is at a crossroads. Faced with an increased demand and growing poluution probelms, Indian cities are not able to provide services that are adequate, neither in quantity...

This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted in 2000 in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, to assess the first phase of the implementation of women’s quotas – 33% of seats – in this...

The power sector in India is often described – in newspapers, in official reports, in reform programmes – as too ‘poor’ in money… and too ‘rich’ in politicians. These analyses hence propose corporatisation, unbundling,...