ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING OF GRAM PANCHAYATS PROGRAM IN WEST BENGAL— A STUDY ON DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE

West Bengal is the pioneering state in establishment of the three tier panchayats system for rural government in India. West Bengal government, strengthening the institutional capacity of gram panchayat with initiated the Institutional Strengthening of Gram Panchayat (ISGP) project in 2010 with associated from World Bank. The main focus on this paper is to how the ISGP project increased the performance level of the gram panchayats and also monitoring the project planning, budgeting and procurement of overall functioning.