Local Governance in India
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Local Governance in India can be divided into two categories, urban and rural.
[edit] Urban Local Governance
Large urban areas are governed by municipal corporations, often simply called corporations. The area under the corporation is further divided up into wards. Individual wards or collections of wards within a corporation sometimes have their own administrative body known as ward committees.
Smaller urban areas are governed by municipal councils or municipal boards, which are often referred to simply as municipalities. Municipalities are also divided into wards, which may be grouped together into ward councils. One or more corporators are elected to represent each ward.
[edit] Rural Local Governance
Rural governance in India is based on the Panchayati Raj system.
It is a three tier system, with the Zilla Parishad at the district level, blocks at the middle level and the village council at the lowest level.
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