Self governing village communities existed in India since the earliest in the form of sabhas. These communities later took the form of panchayat which dealed issues at village level.
Pre independence era
In modern times before independence, local government bodies were created after 1882 during the viceroy period of Lord Rippon. Now these local bodies were called local boards, due to slow progress of these bodies after long period, village ppanchayatswere established in a number of provinces.
After some time when the Constitution making was in process the subject of local government was assigned to the states. It was also mentioned in DPSPs.
Post independence era
After independence, Community Development Programme (1952) came in existence which sought to promote people's participation in local government. In this program the three tier system of local government was recommended in rural areas of some states. Gujarat, Maharashtra adopted elected system of local bodies but in many states local bodies were not powerful. They were very much dependent on the state and central government for the financial assistance. Later after 1987, a throughout review of functioning of local government institution was initiated in 1989. In 1989, P. K. Thungan Committee recommended Constitutional establishment of local bodies with enlistment of their functions along with their funds.
After 1989, Central government introduced two Constitutional Amendment popularly known as the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments, the rural local government with 29 subjects and the urban local government with 18 subjects respectively.
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