Question

how kerala plan can be termed as decentralised

Answer 1

Due to the caste system presented in India, people in the lower levels of society and those in poverty were being disenfranchised and the government was accused of being unresponsive to the citizenry. In order to make the government more responsible and accountable to the citizenry, people began advocating for the develotution of power and a decentralized of the community development and planning process. The State Planning Board subsequently promised to ensure 35-40% of 9th Plan Program would consist of schemes formulated at local levels of government. (D. Bandyopadhyay)

Kerala's campaign of decentralization had the express purpose of promoting people's participation to increase awareness and maximize the direct involvement of citizens in planning and budgeting. The difficulties in promoting direct participation is particularly heightened in contexts where the authority of the modern, rational–legal state is in conflict with various forms of social power. Under such conditions, even when representative democratic institutions are well established, basic rights of association are distorted by pervasive vertical dependencies (clientelistic relationships), routinized forms of social exclusion (e.g., the caste system, purdah) and the unevenness and at times complete failure of public legality. Kerala's repeated goal of decentralizing began since the first democratically elected CPI ministry of 1957, and is still continuing to work towards decentralization through the people's participation today. (Building Local Democracy: Evaluating the Impact of Decentralization in Kerala, India)

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