Subject(s): Panchayati Raj - Gender -- Decentralization in government -- Rural development in India -- Decentralized governance and service delivery, panchayat raj in post 73rd amendment scenario and socio political changes in villages of MP, decentralized governance in tribal regions after implementation of PESA, decentralization, local self governance and gender - equality -- Decentralized planning and women empowerment- case studies of two village panchayats in kerala, inclusion of excluded in decentralization process- people's participation in grama sabhas, political representation in panchayats, training for Panchayati raj functionaries through satellite in Karnataka, sources of revenue of gram panchayats, structural and procedural gaps in rural development lessons from the people's plan campaign in Kerala, governance of rural development- state- society partnership in drinking water sector, district planning in Kerala