Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

Governance

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To chart a different course

What are the items of business the incoming government should take up asap? In Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire cat, “Which...

Governance

What a fall, my countrymen!

The prestige and authority of institutions is being eroded by the actions of those in power One more institution created by the Constitution...

Governance

A Governor’s anguish at corruption by civil servants

I have many things to say to you. Some of them may not be very nice to hear, some of them are in...

Governance

Healing the leviathan

Along with administrative reforms, the quality of elected and permanent officials must be improved Administrative reforms, meaning reorganization and streamlining of public service...

Governance

The Slumdog syndrome

Corruption and injustice have rotted our system to the core “Slumdog is just every scrap of dirt picked up from every corner and...

Governance

Duty until the end

Babu hegemony is stifling professional organizations like the armed forces and the police, who have acquitted themselves well in Mumbai As India watched...

Governance

FOOT DRAGGING AND FLAWS   

The draft legislation ignores children below six and above fourteen years of age and the responsibility of the State towards education remains ambivalent....

Governance

THE MALIGNANCY SPREADS

Below poverty line households are being extorted the most for basic services Gandhi Jayanthi was “celebrated” with all appropriate noises. India’s National Portal...

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Airwaves being public property, the power of radio with its formidable reach must be harnessed to foster participatory democracy

Radio broadcasting has proved to be a very effective means of mass communication that has enabled the building of capacities of non-literate and...

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Fearless governance is the solution

To control terrorism, national interests must take precedence over electoral victory Terrorism has existed for two or three thousand years for different reasons....