GOOD GOVERNANCE IN URBAN INDIA: A CASE STUDY OF AIZAWL By H.C.

Abstract

Popularly elected councils managed local affairs and services through an institution known as local self-government. The people in aggregate who lives close to each other with common interests and needs are dealt by this neighbourhood government. It also provides multiple services to the people and performs different functions. The institution contributes to the strength, resilience and richness of democracy and act as the training ground and laboratories where social, economic, political and administrative projects are tested before their application at a wider space. In a federal structure, the neighbourhood government is subordinate to the state and central governments but they derive legitimacy of powers from the citizens within the local area. In fact, local institutions are created by the state legislature and by means of decentralization of functions, funds, functionaries; it can work on many things including the provision of quality services to the people in the local area.