State of PRIs and ULBs in Jammu

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State of PRIs and ULBs in Jammu Kahmir

• Why decentralization imperative in JK
  Political context
• Historical perspective
• Unique experiment of decentralized planning
  Development through District Dev Board.
• Constitution 73rd and 74th Amendment not
  applicable to the Sate. 1989 Panchayati Raj
  Act/Rules essentially modlled on these Amendments.

Contd
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State of PRIs and ULBs contd

• Election to Panchayats in the year 2001
• State Municipal Finance Commission Act enacted
  in 2006
• Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Act,
  1995 A pioneering initiative in Local
  Governance Autonomous Councils set up in Leh
  and Kargil districts bringing immense
  satisfaction to the residents of this sensitive
  border region.