“In the Foreword to the Guidelines for Local Government Reforms of 1976, the following were highlighted as recurring problems plaguing local government system since independence, for which the reforms were to serve as a panacea: ‘(i) Continuous whittling down of their powers by the State Governments. (ii) Continued encroachment on what normally would have been [...]
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