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Institution of Local Self Governance and its Linkages with Tourism

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0)0)After a lot <strong>of</strong> wavering,Ta mil Nadu under theADMK rule fell in line <strong>with</strong>the Constitution (Seventy­Third Amendment) Act <strong>and</strong>passed the Tamil NaduPanchayat Act in 1994. Itcame into fo rce on 22 April,1994.Development <strong>of</strong>ficials workingin the Panchayat bodies aredeclared as government<strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>and</strong> they do not comeunder the purview <strong>of</strong> localbodies. As a result, the localbodies cannot supervise theiractivities. Compared to theearlier act 1958 <strong>with</strong> the newact, one finds that there wereadequate powers in the earlierlaw for the local bodies tosupervise regulate <strong>and</strong> controlthe <strong>of</strong>ficials working <strong>with</strong> them.The district collector's arbitrarypower to suspend <strong>and</strong> dissolvethe gram Panchayats is againstthe spirit <strong>of</strong> decentralization.The Centre <strong>and</strong> State haveintroduced schemes like, AnnaMarumalarchi Thittam scheme(Anna re naaisance scheme)<strong>and</strong> Namakku Name Scheme(we for ourselves), which tries tobypass the Panchayats powers<strong>and</strong> works against the localinterests.

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