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Structure of India's Local Self-Government

The document outlines the structure of local self-government in India, detailing the existence of District Boards, Union Boards, and municipalities that address local needs. It discusses the formation of the Indian Union as a federation, which includes both former provinces and Native States, highlighting its unique integration and disintegration process. Additionally, it contrasts the Indian federation's diverse unit statuses with the more uniform structures of federations like the USA and Canada.

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Structure of India's Local Self-Government

The document outlines the structure of local self-government in India, detailing the existence of District Boards, Union Boards, and municipalities that address local needs. It discusses the formation of the Indian Union as a federation, which includes both former provinces and Native States, highlighting its unique integration and disintegration process. Additionally, it contrasts the Indian federation's diverse unit statuses with the more uniform structures of federations like the USA and Canada.

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GOVERNMENT OF THE INDIAN UNION 647

Foi puiposes of Local Self-government, theie aie District


Boards in every distiict and Union Boaids in villages and
wheie there is no Distiict Boaid as in Assam, theie aie Local
Boards in each sub-division. Foi cities and towns, theie are
coiporations and municipalities These aie elective bodies and
look aftei local needs, such as public health, public safety,
public convenience and education, mainly piimaiy

Nature of the Indian Federation, The New Constitution


of India, the Government of India Act, 1935, piovides foi
lilve

the creation of a fcdeiation knonn as the Indian Union in-


cluding both the former piovinces and Native States within
India after the Paitition of 1947 The component Units which
form the Union aie called states except the tubal aieas which
have been placed in a diffeient category A
federation
comes into existence by the piocess of integiation of
eitliei
states as in the USA01 by the process of disintegration of
a big state as in Canada Although m its geneial stiucture,
the Indian federation seems to be based on the Canadian
model, yet it diffeis fiom both the Canadian and USA type
in the sense that the Indian fedeiation has been formed by
the combined process of mtegration and dismtegi ation
Biitish India Government was basically umtaiy in character
and the foimer Part A States weie formed out of the old
piovinces which weie tiansformed into autonomous states by
the gradual tiansfer of poweis But so far as the Native
States are concerned which foimed Part B and Pait C States
of the Union, they weie not paits of Biitish India They
were bi ought under the new fedeial stiuctuie under the pio-
visions of the Instrument of Accession which piovided for
the suiiender of soveieignty to the newly-cieated state of the
Indian Union

Secondly, in Canada, USA, and m some other federa-

tions, the units composing the federation aie of the same


kind and enjoy equality or almost equality of status Thus
in the USA, in Canada, and in the USSR, the parts of
the federation aie designated as states, provinces and union
republics lespectively and enjoy equality of status But the
Indian federation comprised different categoiies of units
having different status m
i elation to the Union Government.

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