Changing Role of PRIs

With the advent of COVID-19 and the ill dependence of PRIs on state/central assistance, the pandemic created havoc in Indian rural community. Thus, they need to take the centre stage and facilitate other actors in the developmental process of the village/region by becoming facilitator rather than a beneficiary. Instead of only waiting for central/state government directives on programmes and schemes, the PRIs must come up with innovative solutions to local problems and they must become financially independent.

Panchayats have been the backbone of the Indian villages since the beginning of recorded history. Gandhiji, the father of the nation, in 1946 ....