What us division of powers between higher and lower levels of government?
Answers
Power can be shared among
governments at different levels – a
general government for the entire
country and governments at the
provincial or regional level. Such a
general government for the entire
countr y is usually called federal
government. In India, we refer to it
as the Central or Union Government.
The governments at the provincial or
regional level are called by different
names in different countries. In India,we call them State Governments. This
system is not followed in all countries.
There are many countries where there
are no provincial or state
governments. But in those countries
like ours, where there are different
levels of government, the
constitution clearly lays down the
powers of different levels of
government. This is what they did in
Belgium, but was refused in Sri Lanka.
This is called federal division of
power. The same principle can be
extended to levels of government
lower than the State government, such
as the municipality and panchayat. Let
us call division of powers involving
higher and lower levels of
government vertical division of
power.