Abstract:
Good Governance is widely considered to be a necessary and
important concept if a country or province or region or division is to develop
politically, socially and economically during the post-war context. While
good governance might be taken as a given right in most western parts of the
world because of its basic principles it has not proved to have the same
impact on other parts of the world. In the present context, the strength of
local government depends therefore on its basis in good governance and from
that basis it gains its legitimacy. Only if local government has a strong basis
in good governance can it have a legitimate claim to a major and distinctive
role in any central government. On this backdrop, this study focuses on the
crisis of good governance in Navithanveli Predhesia Sabah of Eastern
Province of Sri Lanka. The prime objective of this study is to give a brief
account of the political and development role of council since it established.
Meanwhile, it scrutinizes the decision-making process along with the
achievement which has been gained through good governance in the study
area. The fundamental question of the research is what conditions enable a
better government to generate the capabilities that transform it into
successful democratic governance, and how to generate them? Such
questions are the central points of this research. All such inquiries are
analyzed in this study from theoretical perspectives and factual findings.
Several approaches are employed to analyse and interpret social phenomena.
This study is based on interpretative approach. The data for the study have
been collected from both primary and secondary sources of information. The
study reveals that the council has become marginalized and insignificant in
the public eye.
