Rural E-Governance through the “Panchayati Raj” Institutions in India: Prospects and Challenges

View Sample PDF

Author(s): Malathi Subramanian (Amity University, India)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 20
Source title: Active Citizen Participation in E-Government: A Global Perspective
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Aroon Manoharan (Kent State University, USA)and Marc Holzer (Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0116-1.ch016

Keywords: Electronic Government / Government & Law / Information Science Reference

Purchase

View Rural E-Governance through the “Panchayati Raj” Institutions in India: Prospects and Challenges on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

In India, the administrative system, with roots in the colonial past, is largely perceived as unresponsive and insensitive to the citizens’ needs particularly in its vast rural hinterland. The common citizens at the rural village level often find themselves at the receiving end of a cumbersome, iniquitous, and unfair service delivery system with very little involvement or inclusion in governance processes despite the best intentions of the government. It is believed that Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled e-governance through the local self governing units (Panchayats) at the village level could simplify civic governance, improve the public services delivery system, make government and administration more democratic and inclusive, and more accessible to the citizens at the local village level. In this context, the chapter attempts to examine the challenges to, and dimensions of the task of electronic delivery of government services through the local self-government Institutions called “Panchayati Raj” in India.

The IRMA Community

Research IRM

Rural E-Governance through the “Panchayati Raj” Institutions in India: Prospects and Challenges

Purchase

Abstract

Related Content

IRMA Sponsors