The Hindu
(Saturday, Jun 30, 2007)

Karnataka - Gulbarga Printer Friendly Page   Send this Article to a Friend

Move to amend PR Act opposed

Special Correspondent

‘It will defeat the very purpose of decentralisation of power’


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venting their ire: Members of the Gulbarga District Gram Panchayat Elected Representatives’ Association burning copies of the proposed amendment to the Karnataka Panchayati Raj Act, 1997, in Gulbarga on Friday.

GULBARGA: Members of the Gulbarga District Gram Panchayat Elected Representatives’ Association on Friday urged Governor T.N. Chaturvedi not to give his assent to a proposal submitted by the Government to issue an Ordinance to amend the Karnataka Panchayati Raj Act, 1997, to take away powers of Panchayat Raj institutions.

The members led by association secretary Mahesh Wadekar and vice-president Anil Kumar Dange, took out a procession from Sardar Vallabhai Patel Chowk to the Deputy Commissioner’s office shouting slogans against the State Government. They burnt the copies of the proposal and submitted a memorandum addressed to the Governor to the Deputy Commissioner.

The memorandum said that the proposed amendment to the Act would defeat the very purpose of decentralisation of power

(http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/30/stories/2007063052690300.htm)