Local self government

Types Of Local Self Government

There are mainly two types of local self-governments in India.

The village local self-government and
The Municipal self-government.
The village local self-government is the village or Gram-Panchayats. The Zilla Parishad also belongs to this category.

On the other hand, the examples of Municipal local self-governments are the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, the municipalities of the small size cities, the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority, various town or city Improvement Trusts, the Port Trust, the Cantonment Board of the army etc. In India, the local self-government institutions are of both the Indian and the Western types.