Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Awareness and importance of the salient features of the constitution (73rd Amendment) Act. 1992
Author(s): Dinesh Rajpurohit, SK Sharma and Ramakant Sharma
Abstract: The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act. 1992 which came into effect on April, 1993 is a major landmark in the transition of political power to the grass roots level in India. By enactment of this amendment act India has given constitutional sanction to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) by providing some mandatory provisions such as direct elections, reservations to SCs, STs & women and many other non-obligatoryprovisionslikereservationtoOBCsandpowerstoprepareplansandimplementtheschemesetc. Present investigation was undertaken in Jaipur district of Rajasthan to assess awareness about the twenty salient features of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act. 1992 along with their relative importance as perceived by randomly selected 200 respondents including elected members, Govt. officials and local leader of the Gram Panchayats. Analysis of data collected showed that about 3/4th of the respondents (72.75%) were found aware about the salient features of this Act in which Govt. officials were found more aware in comparison to elected and local leaders. Further two features, namely ‘Method of election of the Chairperson at the village level Panchayat decidable by the State (Direct in Rajasthan) and ‘Provision of Gram Sabha in a village or group of villages with power & function allotted to it’ were perceived as the most important features of this act by the respondents. However, Govt. officials presented a slight different view from the elected members and local leaders in assigning the order of importance of the features. The study recommended mandatory secondary education for PRI members along with regular trainings to them which have been implemented by Govt. of Rajasthan resulting in improved awareness among them.
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Dinesh Rajpurohit, SK Sharma, Ramakant Sharma. Awareness and importance of the salient features of the constitution (73rd Amendment) Act. 1992. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):1111-1115.
