Viny
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Do you know there is election for panchayats ?1. "panchayat" or "coucil of village elders" is not just a indian system but found all over south asia... it is a traditional-culture system and in most cases composed of reactionary people and in most cases is anti-democracy... if we accept panchayats, we also need to accept the anti-human crimes it propagates, things like honor killings and economic oppressions.
As per article 243 C (2) of Panchayat Raj Election Laws (73rd Ammendement of 1992)
(2) All the seats in a Panchayat shall be filled by persons chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the Panchayat area and; for this purpose, each Panchayat area shall be divided into territorial constituencies in such manner that the ratio between the population of each constituency and the number of seats allotted to it shall, so far as practicable, be the same throughout the Panchayat area.
Can you define how its anti democracy, when panchayats are elected democratically?
2. has any panchayat in maharashtra, karnataka and andhra come up with solutions for farmer suicides there??
Panchayats can help in development, but cannot stop someone taking bad loans and making decisions of life.
For that matter suicides happen in cities and developed countries also due to financial hardships. I agree more has to be done for better counseling so that farmers dont have take such harse steps.
3. the structure of the current indian political system ( as shown in the diagrams ) is a unnecessarily complicated one, derived in parts from the british system and the traditional south asian system... it is not guided by progressive thought... it is a undemocratic system that allows others to make decisions without you consenting and does not seek to turn the citizens into a enlightened mass... it has not succeeded in removing oppressions and bringing material comforts to people but has succeeded in creating wrong political structures like parties and criminal and reactionary elements associated to those parties.
the jamahiriya system i described earlier is very simple to implement and is necessarily a progressive system because it is guided by socialism.
Seriously which school did you studied all this shit stuff?
Panchayat raj system is system of indian sub continent from arround 2000BC. It been mentioned in Rig Veda at that time it was called sabhas which then developed to panchayats where panch means 5, so it constitued of 5 people. Casteism and feudalistic system of governance under Mughal rule in the medieval period slowly eroded the self-government in villages. A new class of feudal chiefs and revenue collectors (zamindars) emerged between the ruler and the people. And, so began the stagnation and decline of self-government in villages.
The panchayat had never been the priority of the Britishers, they were interested in the creation of 'controlled' local bodies, which could help them in their trading interests by collecting taxes for them. The panchayat was destroyed by the East India Company when it was granted the office of Diwan in 1765 by the Mughal Emperor as part of reparation after his defeat at Buxar. As Diwan the Company took two decisions. The first was that it abolished the village land record office and created a company official called Patwari. The Patwari became the official record keeper for a number of villages. The second was the creation of the office of magistrate and the abolition of village police. Thus killing the panchayat system.
During late 1800 and early 1900 when british empire was facing financial troubles and also the regional unrest the Royal Commission of Decenteralisation was established, who then recognized the importance of having panchayat systems, thus they recomeded that is good to decenteralize in order to assoicate people with local tasks thus they attemped to setup village panchayats but it never happen due to financial as well as organizational constraints, later Congress took it up as part of there SWARAJ model of development.
I hope this helps you understand the system.