• Parkash Kaur
• . Tilak Raj Ahuja.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the political condition of the rural areas and the impact of 73rd constitution Amendment Act on the overall empowerment of the rural people. The dream of ‘Gram Swaraj’ of our beloved father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi and motto of “power of people” is essence of true democracy. The task of capacity building of these large numbers of Panchayats is quite gigantic exercise. As per the assessment of the Ministry of Panchayti Raj even after 22 years of enactment of 73rd Constitutional (Amendment) Act and also after having three rounds of Panchayat elections in many States in India the empowerment of Panchayats has not taken place as envisioned in the 73rd Constitution (Amendment) Act in 1992. The 73rd Amendment to the Constitution in 1992 gave Constitutional status to the Panchayats as institutions of local self government and also for planning and implementing programmers for economic development and social justice. The concept of Panchayati Raj seemed for a while in the years after Indian independence to have disappeared permanently into the mists of India’s romantic past. In the late twentieth century however the notion has returned once more to the political agenda, for a variety of reasons: strategic practical, economic, and ideological. This paper sets out to trace in brief the origins of the concept of Panchayat and offers some historical examples of the panchayat in use, and attempts an explanation as to why it should once again have assumed importance politicians, NGOs and administrators.

Empowerment, Panchayati Raj, Amendment, Development.

"Impact of 73 rd Constitutional Amendment Act on the Empowerment of Rural Masses", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no.f459-f462, January-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201566.pdf

"Impact of 73 rd Constitutional Amendment Act on the Empowerment of Rural Masses", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no. ppf459-f462, January-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201566.pdf