JUDGMENT :

1. Democracy can be described as “Power of People”, a way of governing, which depends upon the will of the people. For the essence of democracy is the decentralization of power and allowing governance to reach at the grass root level for welfare of people. The local government elected by people imbibes democratic functioning of the society involving people in the area. The local bodies having administrative, legislative and financial autonomy with dedicated bureaucracy at local level, has helped this country realize its dream. In the words of the father of nation Mahatma Gandhi, “In this structure composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever-widening, never-ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom. But it will be an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of villages, till at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals, never aggressive in their arrogance, but ever humble, sharing the majesty of the oceanic circle of which they are integral units.”

2. The aforesaid may not be true for the village Nalwandi located in Tal