“Women Participation in Grama Panchayats- a Special Reference to Mandya district of Karnataka state”

Grama Panchayats play an important role for empowerment of women through women participation in local self-government system. 73^rd and 74^th constitutional amendment helped women to get 33% reservation among elected representatives of Panchayat Raj Institutions. The present study has been conducted in Mandya district of Karnataka state. To know the demographic profiles of respondents and to analyse the opinion of them towards women participation in GramaPanchayats were objectives of the study. Village citizens were target respondents. Simple random sampling method has been used to collect the primary data with help of structured interview schedule.