 kalyan kumar

With the adoption of the Constitutional mandate for decentralization of powers that privileged those self-government institutions in planning for economic development and social justice, the proposal to re-think the status of DRDAs and also to merge them with the panchayats had emerged.Under the section on 'devolution of functionaries' the 1st Round Table had adopted a resolution, number IV(i), for reconceiving the role of District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs).DRDAs were to be progressively merged with the District Panchayats and their technical expertise made available to all tiers of Panchayats.