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ADITYA PATHAKAIR 189· 2025

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Main Body

Thin tax base - heavy reliance on property taxes
How share of Non-tax Revenues

Institutionally Weak

reluctance of State Govts to devolve functions & functionaries
Lack of Capacity Building among elected representatives
Weak position of Mayor
Interference by Bureaucracy
Tied nature of Funds → Lack of autonomy

Way Forward

Full & timely devolution of SFs
Innovative financing - Bonds Pooled debt
2/ of GST to ULBs/PPLs - Kelkar
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ADITYA PATHAK

AIR 1892025

Subject & Paper

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Topic

Devolution to Local Levels

Urban Local Bodies

Challenges and Way Forward for ULBs

Writing Stats

78

Total words

3

Paragraphs

10

Bullets

structured bullet points

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