Governance In India: Vision 2020

GOVERNANCE IN INDIA: VISION 2020

M.C. Gupta
Director, IIPA,
New Delhi

54 years after independence and 51 years after the innovation of the Re macrocosm there is a widely shared passion in the country to evaluate the gains made as similarly to assess our future. Undoubtedly, the people of the country and the managers of society can be congratulated on many counts for Indias achievements since independence which include self-sufficiency (in point surplus generation) in food-grains, a strong industrial base, a rising expectancy of life, a higher percentage of literacy, a united and better integrated India and a growing identification by the world of our capabilities and potential On the negative side, unity could count the nagging problems of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty accentuated by an ever increasing population. Also, a low per capita income, inadequate infrastructure, feudalistic tendencies and spank of all a pathetic contempt of rule of impartiality and ethics in public life. Finally, an administration which is perceived as self seeking and citizen unfriendly.

All these factors impact governance.



The policy regimes, public investment, and approach to governance have contributed in a larger-than-life measure in keeping the country together, in fortify public administration, in realizing social and economic goals, and in the improvement of the conditions of the people to an extent. Unfortunately, at the same time, the major sections of governance, namely the governmental administrators, the legislature, the judiciary, the civil services, and the civil society have to take the shoot for many of the ills of society and the unfulfilled promises that we made to ourselves in November 1949 when we take the Constitution. It is worthwhile to recall the Preamble to the Indian Constitution in its original form:

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to urinate India into a SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, and to secure to all its citizens :
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