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sameer24th 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...

The State of Panchayats

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

Blue Pencil
Roadblocks in People's Republic!

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was as big a votary of self-rule as Ahimsa (Non-violence) and Satyagraha. For him, unless every village of India became a self-sustained and self-governed republic, there would be no real democracy...
Narendra Kaushik

Unorganised Workers' Health Insured

RSBY keeps unorganised, illiterate, semi-literate, poor and selfemployed employees who migrate from place to place in search of wage employment in mind...
Sudha Pillai

Re-imagining India

We need to deconstruct power and thus reconstruct India from the lower rungs of economy, of administration, of capability...
Devaki Jain

Swadeshi Software and Swaraj

India needs to harness its software self-reliance to attain true Swaraj. It should not be seen as a herculean task...
Deepak B Phatak

Marketing Feature | Bajaj Allianz
Serving at your doorstep

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...

Case Study | State Bank of India
Banking for India

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...

Book Review
Framework for Fixing Debt & Deficit

It is an enormous challenge to design a scheme for fiscal transfers for a country as heterogeneous as India. But when C Rangarajan, the Chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and doyen of Indian economy and D K Srivastava, the director of Madras school...

Level-playing Field for Farmers

A part of the series on ‘Land Reforms in India’, Agrarian Crisis and Farmer Suicides is a collection of essays that builds a clear linkage between an agrarian crisis and its impact on farmers and its dovetailing effect on public policy. Looking at the...

Focus:
Internal Security Critical for Growth

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.

Q&A
Need to Incentivise the Government Sector

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...

eCourts: Speeding up Justice Delivery

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...

Column
Reinventing Decentralisation

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...
Bibek Debroy

Making Decentralised Governance Work

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...
N C Saxena

Swabhimaan
Taking Banking to the last mile

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...

Swabhimaan
Financial Inclusion Requires a Boost

The backbone of financial inclusion activities is the use of IT solutions, mobile connectivity and biometric identification, says R Gopalan...
R Gopalan

Economic Growth for Aam Aadmi

The policies of the government are specifically designed to ensure inclusive growth, particularly of the...
Sonia Gandhi

Banking system to Catalyse Inclusive Growth

An effective and efficient banking system is the most important requirement for a growing economy to grow further, says Pranab Mukherjee...
Pranab Mukherjee

Stop Press
Jan Lokpal

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...

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