Urban Local Bodies
Urban government was constitutionalised through the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992. Power and fucnction of Urban Local Bodies are decided by state legislature.
UT’s urban governance is handled by MoHA.
First municipal corporation in India was set up at Madras.
Lord Mayo’s Resolution : financial decentralisation.
Lord Ripon’s Resolution of 1882 has been hailed as the ‘Magna Carta’ of local self-government.
He is called as the father of local-self government in India. Government of India Act of 1919: under system of dyarchy, LSG was transferred subject.
Government of India Act of 1935, local self-government was declared a provincial subject.
Post-independence Era In 1985 Rajiv Gandhi Government introduced the 65th Constitutional Amendment Bill (i.e.,Nagarpalika Bill) in the Lok Sabha. Aim: Conferring a constitutional status on them.
What happened?🔥 😎bill was passed in the Lok Sabha, it was defeated😈 in the Rajya Sabha.
Why failed?😳 Urban Local Bodies were kept under central …
