Bajaj Allianz Life treats sales and service as integral to each other when it comes to insurance officer serving the rural customers. The rural insurance officer is trained to be the...
SBI is truly an institution the 'Nation banks on' holding over 250 million customers in a country where only half of the population is estimated to have access to banking...
While the new Swabhimaan scheme is a welcome step, the government must maintain its focus on financial literacy and linking financial inclusion efforts to poverty alleviation...
The backbone of financial inclusion activities is the use of IT solutions, mobile connectivity and biometric identification, says R Gopalan...
R Gopalan
The policies of the government are specifically designed to ensure inclusive growth, particularly of the...
Sonia Gandhi
An effective and efficient banking system is the most important requirement for a growing economy to grow further, says Pranab Mukherjee...
Pranab Mukherjee
On the face of it, it began as a protest for formulation of Jan Lokpal bill that would pave the way for appointment of a central ombudsman for investigation and prosecution of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats and protection of whistle blowers with around 128 agitators launching fast-unto-death at New Delhi...
24th April is observed as Panchayati Raj Day because on this day in 1993, the 73rd Constitutional Amendment was implemented, setting up the three-tier panchayat system — village panchayats, panchayat unions and district panchayats — for grassroots-level governance...
Except Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, and Chhattisgarh and to an extent Madhya Pradesh, a majority of the states has been reluctant to delegate responsibilities to Panchayats as mandated by 73rd amendment of the constitution. A report by Team Inclusion
26/11 not only brought terrorism right into our drawing rooms and made us the battlefield but also exposed the chinks in the armoury of our security establishment. Moreover, it lobbed homeland security right into the centre of our polity. 
Prajapati Trivedi, Secretary to Government of India (Performance Management) in the Cabinet Secretariat, tells Inclusion how the government is seeking to establish a mechanism for results-based performance monitoring and performance evaluation in the Government...
The eCourts project will facilitate citizen’s access to online case status, copies of orders and judgements, cause list and eventually e-filing, says Neela Gangadharan, Secretary, Department of Justice...
The word decentralisation means different things and is used in different contexts, with differing normative connotations. Even within the narrower domain of governance, political, administrative and fiscal decentralisation may overlap, but are conceptually different...
According to the 11th Plan Mid-Term Appraisal (MTA), significant devolution of funds and functionaries to the panchayats has been effected in only a few States, with departmental staff in most states answering to their respective departments...