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January 2015

Part D: Ethics & Governance & Accountability

By Narayan Varma Chartered Accountant
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Good Governance Day:
The government has announced that it will celebrate former Prime Minister Vajpayee’s birthday on 25th December as ‘Sushasan Diwas’ or ‘Good Governance Day’.

HRD Ministry is keen to celebrate 25th December as good governance day to mark the birthdays of A. B. Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malaviya.

• Promise of Better Governance:
The fact that BJP regime is in power because of the promises they have made to provide better governance is a good sign for it puts pressure on the system to make a visible difference. The Modi government has embarked on an ambitious project – the attempt is to move from a mental model of governance being about dispensing resources to one that actively seeks outcomes, but this needs an ability to convert programmes into measurable and repeatable actions on the ground. This will need a dramatic overhaul of the administrative infrastructures, and its understanding of the nature of power. It might be relatively easier to ring in the big changes, but the real challenge might lie in the everyday experience of governance. Boring, predictable governance is the need of the hour but to deliver that what we need are sweeping administrative reforms. Other more glamorous reforms will be rendered meaningless without fixing the nuts and bolts of governance.

[Santosh Desai in the Times of India dated December 15]

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