Give an example of direct democracy in rural area india?
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India followed the representative indirect democracy and Switzerland is the best example of direct democracy in the world. Gram Sabha is the good example of direct democracy within India. Gram Sabha consists of the members registered in the electoral rolls of the village within that area.
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INDIA has been romantically popularised as the largest democracy on earth as if democracy is the ultimate and the most perfect system of governance! I have no great idea of any other better form of governance; however we certainly can improve on the given system by moving towards the direct democracy i.e. empowering people to take their own decisions collectively and unanimously. It certainly is not about taking decisions individually. In our context, when we talk about the concept of direct democracy we in Gandhi’s words mean gram swaraj or self governance by the village people. The concept of gram swaraj paved way for the panchayati raj system and a law was enacted in 1993 in India that made constitutional provision to have a three-tier panchayat system, thus empowering people and lessening burden on the bureaucracy. However, this dream has hardly taken off and most parts of the country have not tasted the fruits of the real panchayati raj system.
My party, UKPP – Uttarakhand Parivartan Party, India’s first Green party with its base in the Central Himalaya state of Uttarakhand, thinks beyond the concept of the gram swaraj. Our philosophy is that as the concept of the gram swaraj has never been implemented in its letter and spirit, we need to go little beyond and think about having as many republics in the state or in the country as many as villages we have!
Turning my state into thousands of republics or India into millions of republics does not mean we are disintegrating and going out of the ambit of India as a nation-state. It also does not mean thinking out of the box and rejecting the prevailing system altogether like what the Maoists back home are trying to do. It is about empowering each village system and its people. My question is: if each individual can have a republic or monarchy in herself or himself without causing any inconvenience to any person, why cannot we have millions of republics governed by direct democracy principles?
I fairly understand that no political system of system of governance is perfect, but certainly we can talk here about a system that is fair to everybody – to the deliverer and to the receiver!
Before coming to the idea of the village government, I must make it clear that it is different from the gram swaraj concept. The gram swaraj concept is purely holistic, however the concept of the village government is quite direct and participatory with all ingredients of responsibility and accountability.
Also, the three-tier system of the panchayats (gram, khetra and janpad or at the levels of village, bloc and district) bestowed upon the citizens through the 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution of India, had a noble intention of empowering the villages; however, the system could not empower the village panchayats or through them the villagers as these bodies have not been empowered to make and implement policies, programmes and design campaigns according to their needs. Neither these bodies were empowered to punish those responsible or failing to implement properly the policies, programmes or the campaigns. So, the panchayat system proved to be no better than the corrupt Executive. The corruption at the levels of political leadership and judiciary has only aggravated further the situation. The system has in fact converted our village assembly representatives into petty pawns solely dependent upon the benevolence and kindness of the mediocre bureaucracy.
Misnomer of development
It has been propagated that the development meant creating huge infrastructure like construction of big dams, huge networks of telephone communication, large network of roads and transportation system, construction of large-scale factories, etc. The smallness in any of these sectors was seen as anti-development. This defeated the very idea of democracy at the grassroots level i.e. at the level of village. Also, concentration of the power centres has negatively impacted the grassroots democracy.
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