By Sreekutty & Nihala Navas
People’s Plan Campaign, held in 1996 in Kerala State, was an experiment in decentralization of powers to local governments with focus on local planning. Kerala State lying in the south-west part of India. In India’s Ninth Five-Year Plan, each state within the national federation was expected to draw up its own annual plan and the People’s Plan was an offshoot of it.[1]
In the beginning of the ninth plan, the Government of Kerala took a bold decision to devolve 35 percent of the state development budget down from a centralized bureaucracy to local governments where local people could determine and implement their own development priorities. This was implemented through the People’s Plan Campaign (PPC) under the joint supervision of the Department of Local Self-Government and State Planning Board.
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