Local Government

The head of the state

The legislature

The judiciary

The constitution

Increasingly independent of the state government

Increasingly dependent on the state government

Completely sovereign

None of the above

Control ensures greater efficiency in municipal services

It keeps a check on powerful local interests which may operate against the common interest

It provides necessary finances to the proper areas for provision of welfare services

It ensures diversity in municipal services

Politics should not be allowed to interfere

Financially these should be kept dependent on the centre

Favourable public opinion should be created in their favour

More financial resources should be put at their disposal

Improved means of transport and communication

Growing tendency towards provision of uniform administration

Tendency on the part of state government, like any other government, to increase its powers

All the above factors

By formulating their budgets

Through their power to approve or reject the bye laws, schemes and resolutions of local bodies

Recruiting all the official of the local bodies

Through none of the above methods

Utility of these institutions should be classified

People should be made to realise their importance

People of integrity should be got elected to these bodies

These should be deprived of some of their powers

Their dependence on the centre is increasing

Their autonomy is increasing day by day

Their work-load is increasingly going up

Centres administrative control overthem is increasing

Not accountable to the central or state governments

Accountable to the central or state governments within the limits prescribed by the statute

Fully accountable to the central or state governments

Accountable only to the local representatives