Which of the following are correct regarding G. V. K. Rao Committee?1...
Recommendations of the G. V. K. Rao Committee - Planning commission in 1985 appointed The Committee on Administrative Arrangement for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation Programmes under the chairmanship of G. V. K. Rao. The Committee came to the conclusion that bureaucratization of development administration opposed to the democratization has weakened the Panchayati Raj institutions. This has resulted in what is aptly called ‘grass without roots’.
The recommendations to strengthen and revitalize the Panchayati Raj system made were -1. The district-level body, Zila Parishad, should be primary in the plan of democratic decentralization.
2. It stated that “the district is the proper unit for planning and development and the Zila Parishad should become the principal body for the management of all development programs which can be handled at that level.”
3. The Panchayati Raj institutions at the district and lower levels must be assigned an important role with respect to planning, implementation and monitoring of rural development programs.
4. For effective decentralized district planning, some of the planning functions at the state level should be transferred to the district level planning units.
5. District Development Commissioner post must be created.
6. He would be the chief executive officer of the Zila Parishad.
7. He should be in charge of all development departments at the district level.
8. Regular elections to the Panchayati Raj institutions.
Thus, the committee assigned a primary role to the Panchayati Raj in local planning and development. It is in this respect that the recommendations of the G. V. K. Rao Committee Report (1986) were different from those of the Dantwala Committee Report on Block-Level Planning (1978) and the Hanumantha Rao Committee Report on District Planning (1984). Both the committees suggested that the basic decentralised planning function should be done at the district level.