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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ROLE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN SARPANCH IN ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ROLE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN SARPANCH IN ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator ANITHA KUMARI, K
 
Contributor JAMUNA RANI, B
 
Subject public sector, biological phenomena, economic systems, participation, marketing, manpower, area, land resources, selection, fruits
WOMEN SARPANCH, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Description Andhra Pradesh is one the two Indian states which had taken a lead in introducing
the system of panchayati raj in 1952. The three tier system of panchayat Raj in the
state is being existed with 33% percent women reservation in the local bodies. Almost
two decades into the enactment of the 73rd constitutional amendment act, for the
obvious reasons there is reportedly growing interest in the local governance on women
as representatives of gram panchayat. Gram panchayat is the pillar of PRI’s and the
success of the village panchayat largely depends on the extent to which women
sarpanch capabilities are built to perform the functions and responsibilities with regard
to 29 subjects are brought under village panchayat under 11th schedule of article 243 G
of 73rd Amendment act to make pachayats more effective.
These women sarpanch slowly moving towards the leadership scale and changing
the face of village politics by giving new direction to the empowerment, highlighting
their problems and finding solutions to make it successful. Contrary to expectations,
mass media reports highlighted negative results of decentralization of power especially
to women such as misuse of power and leadership. Such opinions get strengthened in
the absence of realistic analysis of performance of women sarpanch in the grass root
level institutions. Against this back drop an attempt is made to evaluate the performance
of women sarpanch and their leadership characteristics.
Ex post facto research design was used in the investigation. The study was
conducted in three districts taking one district randomly from each geographical region
with an intention to represent all the three regions differing socio-economic and
working environment factors and 33 per cent of Gram Panchayats are reserved for
women in all the districts. Five mandals were selected randomly in each selected
district. Thus, a total of 15 mandals were selected for the study.Four women sarpanch
(are in roles), two villagers from each selected gram panchayat and four functionaries
from Panchayat Raj Department working at mandal level were selected randomly from
each selected mandal. Thus a total of a total of 240 respondents were selected for the
study to analyse the role performance of women sarpanch.
The dependent variable was measured by Role Performance Index (RPI) with
seven indicators based on the roles assigned by the government of India in the eleventh
schedule, Article 243-G of the constitutions list of the items to be included for each of
the above indicators were obtained separately. Among the independent variables
selected for the study profile characteristics were measured by already developed
schedules. The Leadership characteristics were measured by (LCI) index with thirteen
variables, influencing factors were measured by (IFI) index with sixteen indicators were
studied.
The study revealed that majority of women sarpanch were in young aged,
belonged to other castes, possessing high and middle school education, marginal
farmers with farming as major occupation, annual income in the range of 75,000 –
1,00,000 and majority owned concrete houses with medium material possession. While,
a vast majority was married, belonged to medium and large family size category and
were belonged to joint families. Majority of the respondents had medium information
seeking behaviour and mass media exposure respectively.
With regard to leadership characteristics of respondents majority had high in
category for empathy levels, vision, aspirations, achievement motivation, self
confidence, communication skills, assertiveness and medium category of managerial
abilities, conflict management and negotiation skills, knowledge of panchayath related
matters, inter personal skills, decision making abilities and emotional intelligence.
An over view of the respondents categorization with regard to influencing factors
for role performance reveal that majority were in high category for political back
ground, attitude on women reservation, social participation, social audit and training
received. Medium in category for motivational factors, political awareness, family
support, resource mobilization, party affiliation, policy matters, institutional linkages,
perception towards gender issues and personal abilities and low prior leadership
experience and social mobilization.
An over view of the respondents categorization with regard to sector wise role
performance perceived by themselves, villagers and mandal level panchayat raj
functionaries revealed that majority had high role performance in social welfare,
followed by medium role performance for maintenance of community assets,
infrastructure and minimum need social service, poverty alleviation programmes and
low role performance for forestry and environment, industry, agriculture and allied
sectors respectively.
An over view of respondents categorization on over all role performance of
women sarpanch revealed that majority of the respondents rated as medium role
performers followed by high and low.
Simple correlation analysis of leadership characteristics revealed that self
confidence, achievement motivation, conflict management and negotiation skills,
managerial abilities, communication skills, interpersonal skills, empathy, decision
making abilities and emotional intelligence were positively significantly related with
role performance of women sarpanch.
Simple correlation analysis of influencing factors revealed that political
awareness, social participation, motivational factors, attitude on women reservation,
perception towards gender issues, family support, training received, institutional
linkages, policy matters, personal abilities, resource mobilization, social audit, social
mobilization and prior leadership were positively and significantly related with role
performance of women sarpanch. The major constraint expressed by women Sarpanch were limited devolution of
powers, lack of ability to resist interferences, secretaries are more loyal to the higher
officials but not to sarpanch, interface with criticism and Insufficient availability of
funds for development of panchayat.
The major suggestions given by women sarpanch include stop the interference of
MP’s, MLA’s and politicians, Inadequate devolution, secretaries must be loyal to higher
officials as well to sarpanches, encouragement and help should be intended from the
villagers, and government officials and capacity building through professional training
and awareness about the PRI’s powers, functions, and duties,
 
Date 2016-06-08T12:22:37Z
2016-06-08T12:22:37Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67003
 
Language en
 
Relation ;D9254
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY