Rural Governance
Generate meaningful understanding of community
Rural Governance is the structures through which rural areas are governed depending on the constitutional framework, the dominant political ideology and historical precedent. In India, the Panchayati Raj now functions as a system of governance in which Gram Panchayats are the basic units of local administration. The system has three levels: Gram Panchayat (village level), Mandal Parishad or Block Samiti or Panchayat Samiti (block level) and Zila Parishad (district level).
The Rural Governance program of Hindustan Talks aims to strengthen the governance system of villages through capacity building of the various stakeholders present in villages, urban adjacent areas, schools, NGOs/ CBOs, colleges and institutions. Their capacity is build by providing them trainings or workshops on topics such as RTI, govt. schemes, rights, duties, conducting surveys, collecting right information, crowd mobilization, group work techniques etc. Such trainings are provided with an objective to identify and shape up community leaders and enable them with knowledge, skills and channels to access public services, participate with government officials in raise their concerns and solving the issues of locals in right forum for the development of their community.
This program also is helpful in responsiveness, accountability, and transparency for facilitating the effective delivery of key government services. The idea of the program is to bring three key stakeholders - Public, Panchayats and Government administration on one platform, and to establish a smooth communication of information among them. Our approach is to bridge the gap and be the facilitator promoting smooth functioning of the overall governance system.
Objectives
- To prepare a rural governance volunteer team
- To promote and strengthen good governance practices among Panchayats
- To improve access to information
- To improve the quality of lives of their citizens
- To increase participation of villagers in Panchayat Raj
- To create community based intuition and organizations
- To increase capacity of rural leadership
