is little disagreement on the political and administrative dimensions of accountability, and their relation to the … institutions of local government. Transparency and accountability are expected to reduce rent seeking in development activities …. There is, however, a wide gap between normative principles and the actual manifestation of accountability. Political and …

The "Panchayat Jamabandhi" is an innovative administrative mechanism to bring in transparency and accountability in …

effective people’s participation, enhance degree of transparency and ensure greater accountability. This paper examines the … relationship between decentralised governance and transparency as well as accountability in the light of empirical evidence. The … study reveals that transparency and accountability can be enhanced at the grass roots level by strengthening institutions of …

Various measures have been taken to enhance the accountability of elected representatives in the panchayats, and to …

finally, for accountability. However, limited interaction has resulted in lack of responsiveness and accountability to the …

, the concept of accountability was either virtually unknown or ignored in practice. Thus, local governance through the …