Subject(s): Decentralization -- Administration -- Re Modelling Panchayati Raj -- Rural Development -- Democracy decentralization- a new administrative challenge, idea, image and reality -- organizational analysis of panchayati raj institutions in India, control, supervision and guidance of panchayati raj institutions, collector and panchayati raj institutions, administration and politics in context of panchayati raj, political parties and panchayati raj -- Personnel administration under panchayati raj, profile of development bureaucracy in India, panchayati raj in India- retrospect and prospect, remodeling panchayati raj, re-modelling panchayai raj institutions in India, panchayati raj revisited, can panchayati raj become the agency for integrated rural development, administrative and organizational issues in rural development