A Stillborn Initiative
Panchayats were touted to be a vaunted zenith of a democratic initiative. While the first of the three tiers of Panchayat election is still...
Now Funds Flowing
After making them organise into associations and resorting to protests, the government overnight turned proactive. As the administration is tasked to ensure all transfers...
Hot politics in cold desert
As demand for Union Territory status continues to emerge from Buddhist dominated Leh district of Ladakh region, almost all political parties are using it...
Panchayat Gamble?
Amid trade hope that 2018 summer will break the slump triggered by 2014 floods and the 2016 unrest, the ruling BJPDP coalition has announced...
A stumbling block
Re-organization of J&K into 22 districts left the block levels unchanged. With Community Development blocks getting more importance in wake of thrust on specific...
The grass roots democrats
The elections to the village councils and village heads have seen a diverse set of contestants. Kashmir Life profiles some of the elected and...
Grassroots Failure?
Panchayt elections were meant to be an international political statement as well as an exercise to experiment democracy at the grassroots level. Just a...
Decimal Divide
Municipal elections have offered decimal statistics of democracy currently in vogue in Kashmir. The black and white map offers a clear view of the...
Grassroot governance
The government has announced to hold Panchayat elections in the state. In the absence of Panchayats for 33 years, the state has been losing...
