Media Coverage of AI's Budget Briefs, 2015
collated by Papia Samajdar
Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research is delighted to launch its Budget Brief Series, 2015 based on the Government of India's budget presented on February 28, 2015. Read more »
Right To Education Act Section 12(1) (c): Reservation within reservation
The Anatomy of Indian Administration
By Vincy Davis
In this blog post, I briefly take stock of Lant Pritchett’s arguments on the “flailing” nature of the Indian state, and Michael Lipsky’s seminal work on “street-level bureaucrats” in an effort to theoretically understand the structure of Indian administration. Pritchett’s attempt through his paper is to make sense of India in its totality, and so he comments on all major facets of what makes this nation-state tick. For my current purpose, my focus is on the administrative aspect covered in his paper. Lipsky’s book covers in rich detail, the workings of and the context in which field level officials of the state, toil. In this post, I have borrowed from the central idea of his work. Read more »
परिवेदना निवारण समिति एक वेदना बनकर रह गई
Tajuddin Khan
नि:शुल्क एंव अनिवार्य बाल शिक्षा का अधिकार अधिनियम 2009 व राजस्थान नि:शुल्क एंव अनिवार्य बाल शिक्षा का अधिकार, नियम 2011 के प्रावधानों के अंतर्गत भाग 8 में शिकायत निवारण के बारे में जानकारी दी गई है | जो निम्न प्रकार से है-
अध्यापकों के लिए शिकायत निवारण तंत्र- राज्य सरकार या स्थानीय प्राधिकारी द्वारा स्थापित, स्वामित्वाधीन या नियन्त्रणा Read more »
What’s wrong with government data?
Amee Misra
The very nature of decentralisation hinges on the ability of the lowest levels of government to quantify and manage their needs and capabilities. Governments need timely and reliable facts to ensure correct resource allocation and design relevant policies. In the absence of efficient and effective data management systems in India (Some pieces may be accessed here, here, here, here and here. ), it is no surprise that countless government schemes in India fail to achieve their stated objectives. Given the need to converge massive bits of information into comparable, numeric formats – the importance of data management in government cannot be overemphasised. Read more »
