Governance Reforms: Critical Issues and Challenges

The book on “Governance Reforms” tries to analyse the important issues and challenges that Indian governance system is often confronted with. This book is not deliberately text-book centric nor purely academic literature-based but based on important events that have traversed though the working of our democratic institutions over the years. With six chapters covering administrative, civil service, electoral, judicial, police and corruption, the book deals with rudimentary and basis issues that affect the normal functioning of our governance structure. Because of multiple governance issues, several commissions and committees have gone through the problems of public administration but the executive has fallen short of accountability, responsiveness and transparency. The electoral process has witnessed far reaching changes but lacks a vibrant democratic electoral process. The judiciary as an institution for safeguarding democratic rights is not fully ripe. The police has not maintained a clear and undisputable image. Corruption is all pervasive. These issues are reflected in this edition of the book.