Question

Is it possible to improve the conditions with the help of 73rd and 74th amendments of the Constitution? Justify your answer​

Answer 1

Answer:

The state governments effectively enjoyed power in the holding of elections to local bodies. The 73rd and 74th amendments take away an option that the state government previously had though it chose not to exercise it. And in politics, as in finance, options have value even if not ultimately exercised.

Until the passage of the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments, the states were the only sub- national units officially recognized by the Indian constitution. And the constitution grants individual states considerable legislative autonomy.

Schedule Seven of the Constitution explicitly demarcates the respective legislative domains of the state legislatures and the national parliament. The functional areas over which the national parliament has exclusive domain are specified in List I, also called the “Union List”.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

In 1992 government led by P.V. Narasimha

Rao passed an important amendment to the

Constitution to provide local self governments

a Constitutional Status. The 73rd Constitutional

Amendment created institutions of local self

government at the village level while the 74th

Constitutional Amendment did the same in

towns and cities. These were pathbreaking

amendments. They sought to usher in for the

first time, office bearers at the local level elected

on the basis of universal adult franchise. One

third of the seats were to be reserved for

women. Seats were also reserved for scheduled

castes and tribes. The concerns of the State

governments were taken into account and it

was left to the States to decide on what

functions and powers were to be devolved to

their respective local self governments.

Consequently, the powers of local self

governments vary across the country.