India’s democracy: New Challenges

Indian democracy, as it looks in the golden jubilee year of India’s independence of the State in India is in question because the electoral process is vitiated by money and muscle power. The attempts to develop grassroots democratic institution and to build decentralised democratic#
structures at the regional levels in response to the growing demands of some ethics groups do bot seems to have been effective.
The structural adjustment programme – induced liberalisa-tion policy has hit the poor.