All India Panchayat Parishad (AIPP) is a Govt. recognized autonomous apex Federation of Panchayati Raj Institutions, addressing the issues of rural India and aiming to strengthen the Panchayati Raj system, a decentralized form of self-governance at village level to solve local socio-economic problems effectively red to agriculture, health, education, natural resource management and unemployment. AIPP continuously strives for constitutional rights to the Panchayats (self-governance system) and creation of separate Ministry of Panchayati Raj as per the dream of Mahatma Gandhi since 1958 within and outside the Parliament under the leadership of prominent personalities like Shri Balwant Rai Mehta, Lok-Nayak Shri Jai Prakash Narayan, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (former Prime Minister), Shri S.K. Dey (former Community Development Minister Govt. of India) and achieved at last as 73rd Amendment Act come into force in 1992 and separate Ministry of Panchayati Raj created in 2003.