The importance of local self-government:

What makes a democracy successful? The answer is distribution or decentralization of power. If power remains in the hands of the few, it is not really a democracy, is it?

The local self-government creates that scope for enjoying democracy. It is through these local self-governments that the local problems can be considered and solved adequately and properly. It also reduces the heavy responsibilities of the central and the state governments and establishes democracy in a wider context.

How so? This is how:

• Since the members of the local self-government are local people, they can realize and understand the gravity of local problems more seriously than the administrators of the State or Central government and can properly solve them.
• In local self-government, the members have close and intimate contact with the local people. Naturally, it remains more from corruption and acts with real a view of social welfare.
• The local institutes provide a training ground for local leadership and help them gain necessary experience for larger, local challenges.
• To implement various economic planning in local and regional levels the local self-government institutions are far more helpful than the state or central government.
• Local institutions also encourage self help and self solutions of various problems as they are their own best judges.
• The Local Self-government generally unites the people with democracy and encourages them to participate in its activities without any bias or prejudice.

Moreover, both the central and the state governments can make various administrative experiments through these local self-governments.