Local Administrative System and Rural Poor (By a Special Correspondent) THE Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, organised a national seminar on rural development administration at its campus on November 4 and 5. Fiftytwo social scientists, administrators, action researchers and heads of voluntary organisations drawn from different parts of the country, attended, C H Hanu- mantha Rao, Member, Planning Commission, inaugurated the seminar on the 4th and V K R V Rao presided.