The Role of Female Representatives in Rural Development: A Study

Abstract

This study basically makes an attempt to study the leadership structure in Panchayati Raj System is successful to achieve its aim to provide the power in the villagers hands for socio-economic development. Rural political elites governing the local self government running through three tire Panchayati Raj System. It appears that in panchayat elections these rural political elites maniuplate the rural leadership of villages. Now the panchayats have constitutional power, therefore they are not working properly because the rural political elites are much powerful than panchayats, they manover the process of planning for development, they work on their own theory, do not work according to the legal ethics of Panchayati Raj Institutions . Social and political elites in many areas seeking to undermine and nullify Panchayati Raj and women’s participation, since they perceive it as a threat to their monopoly on power In this study we would try to find the nexus among Rural Political Elites as they become rural political leader in three tire panchayat election .