• Dr.Jogi Madhusudan

One of the best indicators of Panchayati Raj on the rural community is their awareness of the functionaries and functioning of Panchayati Raj Institutions. By awareness is meant the consciousness or knowledge of rural people of the personnel and process of Panchayati Raj Institutions. This paper is the modest attempt to know whether the respondents have heard about Gram Panchayats, Mandal Parishads and Zilla Parishad, local body elections, knowledge and utility of rural development programmes, and image of panchayat raj institutions. These are minimum requirement of their awareness of Panchayati Raj and the same, were asked. And the detailed perception is emerged in this paper.

Perception, Panchayat Raj, Awarness, Knowledge, Consciousness, Utility.

"PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: PERCEPTIONS OF LOCAL BODY REPRESENTATIVES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 8, page no.e554-e562, August-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2308467.pdf

"PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: PERCEPTIONS OF LOCAL BODY REPRESENTATIVES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 8, page no. ppe554-e562, August-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2308467.pdf