Until recently, it was not mandatory to elect office holders below the state level at district, sub-district, village or municipal levels. In other words, Indian democracy was a parliamentary system at the central and state levels with bureaucratic governance at the lower levels. The current power pyramid needs to be reversed. Everything that can be decided and implemented optimally at the local level should be kept at that level leaving the rest to be taken up at the district and thereafter the state level. Only the residual powers should belong to the centre. It is also necessary to move
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