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Governance
Water budget
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2006
The Union budget of 2005-06 had given the impression that the United Progressive Alliance (upa) government had a plan to promote water conservation and management. With the 2006-07 budget round the corner, now is a good time to look at how serious was upa's water plan.
The development laboratory
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2004
Last year, Congress chief minister Digvijay Singh lost the Madhya Pradesh (MP) state elections. Two years before, the Communist-led coalition lost in Kerala. Since both governments had fervently promoted decentralisation, questions naturally come to the fore: Was their defeat a vote against the move towards local governance and devolution of power? Further, if decentralisation does not bring electoral benefits, will politicians invest in this idea in the future? What went wrong in MP?
From the blurbs
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
Climate change, an Indian perspective
Common concerns
@ljishnu Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
On a cold January night in Hyderabad, a fortnight ago, Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests, was led to an open-air dinner by folk drummers and body-painted tiger dancers as an appreciative audience of international academics and grassroots workers cheered and milled around him. Ramesh had become the toast of the evening after he asked the world’s top scholars working on issues related to the commons to help shape his ministry’s thinking.
The Real India Story
Posted on: 15 Jan, 2011
India’s interests are far more important than what businessmen and their champions think it is
Letters
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2011
AUTONOMY OR CORRUPTION?
The standard is open, finally
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
Four drafts and three years later, the Policy on Open Standards for e- Governance was finally released on November 15. The policy is a victory for the open source community fighting since 2007 for the use of free and open formats to manage and create digital data of the Centre and the states.
Highlights of the policy
The standard shall be adopted and maintained by a non-profit organisation, wherein all stakeholders can opt to participate in a transparent, collaborative and consensual manner The standard shall remain open “recursively” as far as possibleLetters
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2010
PDS for family planning
Spoils of local bodies
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
This was the fourth panchayat poll when Shila Devi of Nayamatpur village cast her vote. The polls usually were a staid affair, with two or three candidates campaigning on bullock carts or on foot. But this year, the 50-something was struck by the dust raised by cavalcades of SUVs, all plastered with posters and packed with campaigners. Nineteen candidates from her village of 4,000 were in the fray for the post of gram pradhan. Liquor flowed freely; saris and other gifts were in plenty too. Never before did Devi see such intensity during a panchayat election. Nor did Uttar Pradesh.
