Producer : Film & TV Institute of India, Poona.

Executing Banner : Sonk Films

In Coastal Karnataka in South India, fifty six Gram Panchayats (Village Self governing bodies) hold elections to the Makkala Panchayat (Children's Self Governing Bodies), so that the children can form a pressure group to help solve developmental issues that they think are important to them and to their villages. A few years back, such elections were held in five Gram Panchayats and the results in Human development issues were encouraging. One Makkala Panchayat got a high school sanctioned in their village while another became instrumental in banning illicit liquor from their hamlet!

This film is a part of a series of films on Human Development issues commissioned by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through the Film & TV Institute of India (FTII). This film was shot over a period of one year, in five schedules each coinciding with the various stages of the formation of the Makkala Panchayat or the children’s self governing body.