ABSTRACT
Democracy and democratic governance have become the order of the human civilization and are also the very attributes of any modern state. Democratic governance is now the ultimate destination point of all governance system around the world. Its formal structure may vary from one country to another on ground of geo-political and cultural diversity, but the inherent fundamental of popular participation is the hallmark of decentralized model of governance everywhere in the world. The traditional system of governance by remote control from distant location is also no substitute for a system of local governance and local participation. The local participation enables not only the selection of locally relevant schemes with its bearing on living environment, but it also promotes cost efficiency by subjecting openness to public scrutiny and by institutionalizing accountability to the stake-holder community and other individuals.
