Best practices of local government in India

Best practices expand fruitful and innovative knowledge of policy makers and policy implementations‟. India as one of most fast developing country which is following bottom-up approach has plenty of successful promotions in local government. It is a concise and coherent research which helps readers to learn concept of local government, concept of best practice of local government, India democratic local government background and current institutions and what are the lessons of eight top practices of local government that discussed in this paper. Through reading this paper knowledge of readers will improve on best practices of sanitation, water supply management, social security, citizen grievance redress mechanism and service delivery, democratic people participation, accurate accounting, expenditure compression, slum development, and accountability of local bodies. Those practices have selected from both urban and rural local government. Best practices are hints to frame successful policies and construct a rich local government.