Good Governance Status of SankharapurMunicipality
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Central Department of Rural Development
Abstract
The title “Good governance status of SankharapurMunicipality” has been entitled to
access the goodgovernance status such as participation of stake holders, accountability
& transparency of the representatives & public institutions & ultimately to assess the
challenges of the local government & public institutions in Sankharapur municipality.
The title also put light on the public institution jurisdiction &manner of service delivery
to the sewagrahi. The change in political structure brought the dynamic change in the
understanding of the new style of governing pattern; in fact development can only
flourished by the effectiveness &efficiency ofsuch public institution, after long run of
people struggles ‘Singhadurbar to village’ is possible. Now, Local institution
autonomously carries the functioning of the problems & can come in mainstream to
advocate for the needs of their citizen in national policy making platform.
As for the completion of the research Sankharapur municipalitywas selected as the main
universe of the study, various ward of Sankharapur municipality’sward number 2, 4 & 8
were taken according to the cluster sampling into Rural & urbanizing part of the
municipality. Both qualitative as well as quantitativedata were collected with the help of
bothPrimary & secondary sources of data. The tools used for data collection were
questionnaires, checklist and guidelines as well as secondary data and research paper
analysis.
The 20 % land is only covered by the households while 80 % lands were still untouched
there which carries the immense potentialities of development of Sankharapur
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municipality in a new model like sample town, agriculture as a back bone, cultural
heritage sites & traditional values, norms & archeological gifts from forefathers added
the value to further self-evolving prosperity of this place, unexplored natural resources,
ore of baluwa needs proper allocation & wise and optimum utilization of those resources
can have no doubt for the developmentof this area which is reliant on the participation
of the local people, effective & efficient public institution. After, change in local
institutionstructure peopleexperience thepositivechanges but still there remains a lot of
problem & challengeswhich is needed to be address.
Lastly, the prioritization of problems should be done and potentialities should be
explored, policy & strategy should be made by consensus of citizen in each status &
level. Lack of coordination between central & local government seems as the severe
mistake which should be rectify as soon as possible, lack of nijamati officer basically in
rural areas is coming as the main challenge, so it should be managed by the policy level
as soon as possible, proper allocation of budget ismost & local people should contribute
their physical effort (Shram dan) & in case of revenue & tax only 3 % of total
municipality budget is from the internal source. It has been very essential now for
analyzing the manner of the service provider & understanding level of the service
recipient, Good governance is not only obtained by analyzing the manner of the public
service provider rather consciousness & seeking of answerability, transparency by public
themselves helps to flourish good governance in suchinstitutions.