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POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days — the whole PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. The method is plain: read the day’s capsule, write the same day, and don’t break the chain. Running alongside it are PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault — 560 previous-year questions over the fifty days, roughly eleven a day — so that revision and answer-writing move together.
Day 20 — Local Self-Government in India
Today’s capsule covers the unit where the citizen meets the state most directly. We begin with the conceptual core — what local self-government and decentralisation actually mean — and the political-theory linkages that make grassroots democracy more than administrative reform. From there we trace the historical arc: ancient assemblies, Lord Ripon’s 1882 Resolution, Article 40, and the three readings of the village in Gandhi, Ambedkar and Nehru. The constitutional half is worked in full — Part IX and the Eleventh Schedule, the Gram Sabha as the direct-democratic base, PESA 1996 in the Scheduled Areas, and Part IX-A with the Twelfth Schedule for urban bodies. We close on the live debates: political–administrative–fiscal decentralisation, women’s representation, district planning, grassroots movements, and the “unfulfilled dream” of real devolution. Across 2015–2025 this unit has been asked every single year — twice in 2018 and 2022 — thirteen questions in all, in the 10-to-20-mark band, with the 73rd and 74th Amendments and women’s representation recurring most.
Write before the evening:
- Discuss the major provisions of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act. Do you think that the Act remains an ‘unfulfilled dream’? Argue your case. (UPSC 2023, 20m)
- Gram Sabha in the Panchayati Raj system is a forum which gives expression to the collective wisdom, aspirations and the will of the people. Comment. (UPSC 2024, 15m)
- Enunciate the impediments to women’s participation in local governance in the process of political decentralisation. (UPSC 2025, 20m)
If you go blank on a scholar, a case, or a section of PESA, it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts — revise it, then write.
