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This National Panchayati Raj Day, Local Governance is More Important Than Ever Before

Many states have made panchayats the nodal agency for COVID-19 coordination, but sometimes there may be gaps between the torrent of duties being delegated to them and the rea.....

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Through the Looking Glass

In all the debates about rights, social sector schemes and pushing towards ensuring quality services to citizens, there is but mere passing mention about the importance of performance management an.....

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Grievance Redress: Arriving at an impasse?

Most government services and social sector schemes display a deep polarity in what is professed under particular policies, and what is achieved at.....

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Through the Looking Glass

In all the debates about rights, social sector schemes and pushing towards ensuring quality services to citizens, there is but mere passing mention about the importance of performance management and a.....

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MPLADS – Learnings and stumbling blocks.

Those familiar with the Indian political system will know of the roles and responsibilities of a member of parliament (MP). What do they do? If we were to go solely by news reports, hair-pulling, wiel.....

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Changing the face of development… One SMS at a time

At the turn of the millennium, Manuel Castells had come out with an argument in his ‘Theory of the Network Society’[1] that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will.....

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Placing public back in public procurement

The disproportionate diversion of public funds that have taken public attention by storm, calls for an immediate adoption of preventive measures and strengthening of regulatory foundations. The Parlia.....

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The Right to (Right) Information

I attended the Fourth National Right to Information (RTI) Convention in Hyderabad, organized by the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) on th.....

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Land Woes: LARR Act and The Missing Link

Land has been a controversial subject area and has consistently been regarded as a principal source of inequality. This article from.....

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Loopholes: Land ownership and the Bhoomi Project

The real estate sector in India has a large impact on its economic growth story, having ‘added over 1 lakh crore of 2.58 lakh crore in 2010-11 to just Delhi’s GDP......

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Too little, too late?

In the few months that I have been assessing the relationship between government and businesses, several grey areas have emerged that have often left me wondering, wandering, and wanting, to dig deepe.....

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Money Laundering and the effectiveness of Anti Corruption Agencies- Part 1

I recently read Jeffrey Robinson’s book “The Laundrymen”, an expose on the diversification of money laundering i.....

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