TITLE:
Service Accountability and Social Well-Being of the Rural Community in Local Government Institutions in Sri Lanka—Special Reference to Selected Pradeshiya Saba
AUTHORS:
K. B. G. S. K. Gamlath
KEYWORDS:
Service Accountability, Social Wellbeing, Grass Root Community, Pradeshiya Saba
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.10 No.3,
July
31,
2020
ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this paper is to explore, existing nature of the
local government sector with regard service delivering and social wellbeing of
the grass root community who live in country side. Local government
institutions are key stone of the social and economic development of the given
country. Sri Lanka has a long historical evaluation process regarding local
government institutions. As a modern local government institution that
Pradeshiya Saba was established in 1987 at the grass root level with regard
rapid acceleration of the social and economic development of the rural
community, it has given enough power, authority and privileges with regard decision
making regarding social and economic development of the grass root people. Yet,
after thirty years period, there is not
shown sufficient improvement of the social and economic life of the people who
are living in Pradeshiya Saba which is located countryside. This trend has to
be investigated through applying suitable methodology including suitable
techniques. Specially, reasons for existing nature of Pradeshiya Saba should be
examined by investigation of the performance of the role of local authorities.
Therefore, qualitative approach such as questioners and field interviewers and
discussions has been used for the gathering information’s in this regard. There
are eight Pradeshiya Saba institutions which have been selected for the carried-out field activities in this research.
Final output of the research has been indicating that weak performance of the
existing Pradeshiya Saba on their service delivering has been crucially impacted on
social and economic wellbeing of the grass root people. Inefficiency and weak
attitudes and commitment of the elective people and officers of the Pradeshiya
Saba have been negatively impact on performances of the Pradeshiya Sabah in
peripherals society. Final output of this research is significant regarding
readjustment of performance of the elective members and officials and
implementations mechanism with regard role and activities of the existing local
government institutions. Also, final result of this research has been opened a new path
for initiate research activities for the researchers who have desire
to start research in same area.