Subject(s): Gram Panchayat -- Child Rights -- Anganwadis -- LSG -- Status of children, decentralization, child rights and capacity building -- Scope, purpose and methodology of study -- nature and scope of LSG institutions : Gram panchayat, Anganwadies, schools, primary health centers and sub- centers, homeopathic and ayurvedic dispensaries -- Good practices and enabling processes : Development, protection, participation -- Challenges to child rights realization and ways forward : Development, protection, participation