Local government bodies are essential to grassroots democracy and effective governance in any country, much more so in a large country like India. However, their elections and functioning since the 1990s have been intermittent and delayed. In the first (of two) parts of this episode, Miheer Karandikar talks to Rishvanjas Raghavan about why Indians should care about municipal corporations and what their problems are.
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