*Research Scholar, Department of Public Administration, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
**Research Scholar, Department of Education, Nagaland University,Nagaland
Online published on 21 September, 2017.
The 73 rd and 74 th Constitutional Amendments do intend to transfer powers to the Panchayati Raj Institutions to administer sectors such as Primary Education and Basic Healthcare. But, the empowerment of community, which can translate such intentions into reality has been possible for the first time through the concept of Communitisation. The rhetoric of true ownership of the village schools by the community can become a reality only through such empowerment by decentralization of financial powers along with power responsibility to enforce discipline as delivered through Communitisation. i Communitisation has emerged as a potent tool for achieving the much needed and long overdue Universalization of Elementary Education or Education as a whole in the state of Nagaland. The Nagaland government has evolved a unique concept of empowerment of community through this process of communitisation. This paper is an attempt to examine the Nagaland Communitisation of Elementary Education Institutions and Services Rules 2002.
