Twenty-five years have gone by since India passed the 73rd/74th Constitutional Amendments heralding decentralized governance ushering in the third tier of government in Indian federal polity. Looking back, this was a momentous event, a paradigm shift in democratic governance and fiscal federalism. Even after a quarter century of decentralization, local expenditure as a percentage of GDP is only 2 per cent compared with the OECD (14 per cent), China (11 per cent), and Brazil (7 per cent).
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