TY - BOOK AU - Parameswaran,M.P ED - Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development. ED - Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum, India) TI - Empowering people: insights from a local experiment in participatory planning SN - 8190294644 (Hardbound) U1 - 320.8095483 PY - 2005/// CY - Delhi PB - Daanish Books KW - Rural development KW - India KW - Kerala KW - Citizen participation N2 - The 73rd and 74th Amendments of the constitution of India opened up new opportunities for devolution of powers to Panchayati Raj institutions. Kerala attempted a novel programme of the `Peoples Plan Campaign` in 1996. A few months prior to this, the integrated rural technology centre, a research wing of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad initiated an Action Research Programme in five panchayats to evolve a set of models of participatory planning for sustainable development and to create microlevel organisational structures to carry out them ER -