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Three-tiered Panchayati Raj bodies are the vital democratic institutions of rural India. The institution of Panchayati Raj was brought into modern independent India's political set-up exactly five decades ago. Panchayti Raj institutions were born with the Nagpur Convention of 1958, but these remained at their level of infancy before 1993. 73rd Amendment to the Indian Constitution that was passed in 1992 and subsequently which was applied with effect from 1993 planted actual teeth to these institutions. With passing of this bill, the panchayats which used to linger in Directive Principles of the Constitution and hence were not mandatory, suddenly became a very powerful tool when many grassroot development programmes got implemented through them. Panchayats, block level panchayats and district level panchatays became the harbingers of development schemes to the villages. This churning process of participatory village-level democracy at one level heralded the golden phase of power devolution that hastened the process of development.