A Public Opinion on Performance of Local-Self Government in Chennai

Abstract

The local self government means residence in town,village and the rural settlements are hosted in their hometown. The people elected the councils and their heads authorising them to solve the most important issues . The State Election Commission is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering elections to the 3rd tier of governance i.e. the Local Self Government, which includes the Panchayati Raj Institutions and the Urban Local Bodies. Article 243 of Indian constitution says the definition Panchayat and 243p says the definition of municipality and in the absence of any Panchayats or Municipalities, institutions of self-government. At present TamilNadu has 38 districts. The study is Empirical in nature , and is used to study the perspective of the research. Questionnaires were used and sent to people via google forms and the sample size is 202. Convenience sampling method is being adopted in the study to collect the data. Samples were collected from General public specifically from the Chennai region. The Independent variables are Gender, Age, Educational Qualification, Marital Status, Occupation. The researcher used graphs to analyze the data collected. The Dependent variables are: The local self government properly supplies pure drinking water to the people and The local self government is properly cleaning the public streets,place and sewers. The local bodies are responsible for the pre-schools ,primary Health care, street lights, roads , cleaning etc,. The local bodies are not doing their work properly and they do not care about the problems faced by people . The candidates who are eligible to elect the local bodies, think twice and register your vote. The government should create more awareness about schemes and policies in rural areas . The government should conduct a legal camp regarding the legal rights of a person