Subject(s): Administration -- Gramasabha -- Handbook/kaipusthakam -- Challenges and possibilities in local self government, round table meetings, decentralization of power and local government, grama sabha, public platforms, financial commissions, local development fund and local government institutions, bill system, rural development, projects planned by the central government and local government institutions, -- Kochi development plans, leadership qualities in peoples representatives, panchayats, importance/role of training -- Decentralization of power in Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal -- Decentralization of power and media, district planning, legislative bodies