Q. Which committee called the Panchayati Raj institutions as ‘grass without roots’?
Answer: G.V.K. Rao Committee
Notes: The G.V.K. Rao Committee came to conclusion that the developmental process was gradually bureaucratised and divorced from the Panchayati Raj. This phenomena of bureaucratisation has weakened the Panchayati Raj institutions resulting in what is aptly called as ‘grass without roots’.

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