Agenda for Panchayats

New Issues in Panchayati Raj edited by D Bandyopadhyay and Amitava Mukherjee; Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2004;
MAHI PAL Aconsiderable body of literature has been written both in English and Hindi on panchayati raj after the enactment of the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992, and Provisions of Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996. The book under review is a valuable addition to this existing literature. One of the editors of the book is a retired bureaucrat and the other taught bureaucrats in the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Both the editors are prolific authors of long-standing. The book contains seven essays which have been authored by senior bureaucrats and academics.