Establishing Good Governance in Local Self-Government Administration in Rural India: Portraying the Priorities

In rural India, the local self - government has been providing the institutional mechanism for democratic decentralization. And the issue of good governance in the local self-government is gradually emerging as a key issue in the sphere of rural development, because failure in the rural governing system will result in spread of patronage, corruption, arbitrary exercise of power and inefficiency, lack of transparency, inadequate availability of basic services for the rural poor, and failure in tackling rural poverty. Against this backdrop, the present paper is an humble attempt to focus some major aspects for ensuring good governance in grassroots level institutions.