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Ans: Recent Mymun declaration talks about centrality of service delivery. Sustainable Development Goals are the obligations voluntary of states to strive for an all-inclusive growth ensuring highest standard of living to its people along with a teaming environmental sustenance. → Top-down approach has shown its features in recent times in a diverse country like India. Ex: Community Development Programme, Family Planning coercion during 1975. → The recent developments in governance are realising the importance of local government institutions PRI in leading to SDG attainment.

Role of PRI's → efficient service delivery Ex: contraceptives, entitlement → Bottom up planning → voice of people heard - Ex: People's Plan campaign and GDDP. → lessening leakage of funds. → local immediate accountability → Women empowerment Ex: Kudumbashree → SHG - PRI tandem can tackle poverty, nutrition, livelihood problems (SDG - 1, 2) → Inequalities can be clearly identified and tackled - SDG-10, using local leader's accountability → Traditional method Ex: seed banks etc, Farmers Producer Organization, can be effectively organised and coordinated

Formal credit access to SHG, financial devolution during to PRI can help MSME, cottage industries → Entrepreneurship → increased tax revenue to PRI → Many more aspects give PRI their crucial starus in SDG attainment → Problems to be tackled → Social structure enrichment at local level → Lack of technological expertise Ex: 3G, internet penetration; magnified gender differences → Lack of financial resources, mainpulatication ARC-2-5, Parliamentary Standing Committe Finance Commission-recommended more financial devolution → Administrative oversight by district official rather than duplication of functions can resolve doubt → Hence, true participatory democracy through PRI is to lead the coming developmental journey

— SRIGIRIRAJU V P S SAI KRISHNA · AIR 125