Panchayati Raj was inaugurated in India by Jawaharlal Nehru on 2 October 1959 at which place?
- A.Nagaur in Rajasthan
- B.Shadnagar in Andhra Pradesh
- C.Wardha in Maharashtra
- D.Bhiwani in Haryana
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The Balwantrai Mehta Committee of 1957 recommended democratic decentralisation through a three-tier structure of the gram panchayat, the panchayat samiti and the zila parishad, and Nehru inaugurated the scheme at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, which makes Rajasthan the first state to adopt Panchayati Raj.
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