(Online Course) Public Administration for IAS Mains Exams
Topic: District Administration since Independence: Union-state-local Relations
The 73rd Constitution Amendment Act and the 74th Amendment Act provided directions for creating Panchayats in the rural areas and Municipalities in the urban regions. Their composition varies with the proportion to the ratio between the population of the rural and urban areas of state. Article 243 of the Constitution of India provides the states to empower these Panchayats and Municipalities “with sue power and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as Institution of self-government’ !n Indian context we noticed earlier union-state relation because local government were not give constitutional status before the passage of 73rd constitutional amendment act in 1992.
Three Models
There are three models depicting union-state-local relation
- Coordinate Authority Model
- Inclusive Authority Model
- Overlapping Authority Model
Coordinate Authority Model
- Union and state governments are essentially equal
- Union and state governments are autonomous within their own spheres
- A sharp boundary separates Union and state authority-neither intrudes on the other’s business
- Local government and state government comprise a unitary system