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The Challenge of Good Governance in India:
Need for Innovative Approaches
The need is to go for ‘million negotiations’
that would ensure that government, market and civil society work together for the
poor
Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru,
the first Prime Minister
of India, in his famous Tryst with Destiny speech of 15th August 1947
succinctly put the task before people’s representatives and the services in the
following words; “….. to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous,
democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political
institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and
woman.” These works are still in progress. A
deeper look at these tasks would clearly establish that these goals are
entirely within the realm of governance.
Meaning
There
is no accepted definition of
governance. There is divergence of opinion about the meaning of governance
between the conservatives and the liberals, between socialists and the communists.
In
recent years the word governance has become a very fashionable term and is
being used in a variety of ways and that covers a large number of organizations
both in public and private domains.
For
our purposes, however, we are confining governance only to public domain. We
are concerned here with that form of governance which serves the citizens by safeguarding
territorial integrity of the State and securing individual security, rule of
law and the delivery of services ranging from education, health to livelihood and
food security.
