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Journal Article
Does Statutory Status Make Any Difference to the Governance of Census Towns?
2021
Overview
Being governed by the rural panchayats, the provision and management of civic services and town planning are not satisfactory in India's census towns. In these circumstances, a group of researchers has argued in favour of granting statutory status to census towns in order to solve the above mentioned inadequacies but there is no conclusive study which supports or refutes this argument. Against this backdrop, the current study engages with the question of whether granting statutory status will help to minimise the existing governance related problems of census towns? After comparing a census town (Arrah) and a statutory town (Raghunathpur), from the state of West Bengal, the study reveals that Raghunathpur is not significantly better off than the census town of Arrah as far as civic services are concerned. Furthermore, the majority of citizens of Arrah, who are economically poor, do not want their town to be upgraded to a statutory town. And this is not only because they would not be able to pay the higher taxes that would ensue but mainly because of anticipated loss of livelihood opportunities in the absence of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which currently is the significant source of livelihood for the majority of them. Therefore, it can be said that granting statutory status is not a panacea for better performance in these three aspects of governance in the census towns.
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National Institute of Urban Affairs
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