Balwant Rai Mehta Committee is related to ______.

The correct answer is Option (1) → Local Self Governance/Panchayati Raj

The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee was set up in 1957 to review the Community Development Programme (1952) and the National Extension Service. It recommended “democratic decentralisation” through a three-tier Panchayati Raj:

• Gram panchayat at the village level

• Panchayat samiti at the block level

• Zila parishad at the district level

Rajasthan was the first state to adopt the system, in Nagaur district on 2 October 1959.