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यह दस्तावेज़ अकॉउंटबिलिटी इनिशिएटिव (सेंटर फॉर पॉलिसी रिसर्च) द्वारा प्रक.....
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यह दस्तावेज़ अकॉउंटबिलिटी इनिशिएटिव (सेंटर फॉर पॉलिसी रिसर्च) द्वारा प्रक.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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India’s experiment with grassroots democracy, 30 years after the creation of local government institutions, highlights the dangers of overcentralisation. .....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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The Budget Session of Parliament commenced on 31st January and is scheduled to conclude on 6th April. The session adjourned on 14th February for a month-long recess till 13th March. Below are curated.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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मैं अकाउंटबिलिटी इनिशिएटिव समूह के साथ 2014 से जुड़कर काम कर रहा हूँ। इस दौ.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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Create more formal sector jobs in labour-intensive industries, improve skills for women with secondary and primary school level education, and bolster social sector spending t.....
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Despite several efforts, a survey in 2018 ranked India as the most dangerous country for women. The Government of India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has several schemes, policies.....
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Ahead of International Women’s Day, the article categorises and analyses scheme allocations through the Union Budget’s Gender Budget Statement (GBS), by looking at what sc.....
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Paper in the form of files, circulars, government orders are at the heart of India’s bureaucratic tradition .....
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The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana’s five additional kilograms of foodgrains per person kept hunger at bay for 80 crore people during the pandemic. Economic conditi.....
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Over the last few years, India has been implementing several nutrition interventions as part of its national strategy to address malnutrition and associated risks. These include nutrition-specific int.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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School Education Budget: Over the same 3 years, enrolment in public schools that Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan supports rose 7%. .....
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The introduction of eggs in mid-day meal schemes has been opposed by religious and caste groups that push for vegetarian meals in several states. .....
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Accountability Initiative’s analysis shows that releases have been slow. SSA accounted for 36% of funds for education ministry in 2022-23. .....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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In the 15 years that have gone by, India has seen a significant transition in the social sector, and lived through a pandemic. At the Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, we have tra.....
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Every argument around MGNREGS boils down to the allocation of funds for the programme. With just one week away from the Budget 2022-23 announcement, a closer look at the schem.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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विभिन्न कल्याणकारी योजनाओं में क्या घटित हो रहा है, यह पॉलिसी बज़्ज़ आपको ह.....
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If public spending in India is to improve, the burden lies on us to remind ourselves of the 'people’s reality' every budget season. .....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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Given the centrality of welfare in the BJP’s electoral discourse, it is important to ask if there is a distinct BJP welfare model. If so, how do the two different narratives.....
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The evolution of India’s welfare state tells the story of the power and possibility of democratic participation—one that has shaped national and global discourse. .....
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By serving as convening hubs for diverse stakeholders to come together and discuss pressing policy concerns, Indian think tanks help U.S. policymakers understand local viewpoi.....
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The 'consultant' performing functions outsourced to them by government is a global phenomenon. .....
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The conventional wisdom behind e-Governance, repeated so often that we ignore its true implications, states that e-Governance improves transparency. This leads to the question; what exactly is.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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The pandemic induced slowdown gripped the country and many states faced an unprecedented migrant crisis. Inevitably, the unemployment rate shot up in almost all the Ind.....
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Last month, on the 75th anniversary of Independence Day, several convicts serving a life sentence were released from jail in an act of clemency. They were convicted.....
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Among comparable nations, India spends the least on social protections, yet we’re debating ‘freebies’, says Yamini Aiyar. .....
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Citizens in this formulation are enablers of government working toward fulfilling its goals, rather than active, rights-bearing stakeholders. .....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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हे पॉलिसी बझ तुम्हाला विविध कल्याणकारी योजनांमध्ये काय चालले आहे याविषयी द.....
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हाल ही में 28 सितम्बर 2020 को हमने एक वेबिनार आयोजित किया जिसमे कोविड के दौरान.....
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The Union government recently announced a special economic stimulus package of Rs. 20 lakh crore under the Atmanirbar Bharat Abhiyan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] While, among the proposed.....
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विभिन्न कल्याणकारी योजनाओं में क्या घटित हो रहा है, इसको लेकर आपको हर 15 दिन .....
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India’s public school education system is currently confronting multiple challenges. First, the urgency to adapt to ICT-enabled modes of education delivery during the.....
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पोषण पर कोविड-19 महामारी का प्रभाव आने वाले कई सालों तक महसूस होने वा.....
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March and the subsequent lockdowns, millions of lives have been thrown out of gear. At this time, larger civil society organisation.....
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The COVID-19 pandemic has hugely affected the Indian government's nutrition programmes making groups like pregnant women and infants suffer the most. In this article the assoc.....
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At the elementary level, poor quality of learning in government schools, teacher vacancies and absenteeism, quality of infrastructure facilities, and low transition rates to s.....
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This study examined interventions addressing violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) in Maharashtra. The study, conducted between August 2018 and October 2019, analyses budget.....
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In all eight states analysed, teacher salaries made up the largest share of school expenditure but spending on teacher training, which is important to improve learning outco.....
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कोरोना महामारी की वजह से आये दिन हमें नयी चुनौतियों का सामना करना पड़ रहा ह.....
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A strategic decision on investing in a vision (what I call an ‘.....
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विभिन्न कल्याणकारी योजनाओं में क्या घटित हो रहा है, इसको लेकर आपको हर 15 दिन .....
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Researchers at the Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have published a .....
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India should have spent at least ₹38,571 crore in 2019-20, across Union government ministries and State government departments to fully finance a set of core direct nutrition interventions (DNIs), a.....
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States are desperately attempting never-tried-before measures to stay afloat .....
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Public school education in India is funded through both Union government as well as the states’ own budgetary resources. The erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) had.....
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आज-कल बुरी खबर तो बहुत पढ़ने को मिलती हैं, लेकिन इस वक़्त में भी लोगों की सहनश.....
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In a powerful and elegant paper written in the mid-nineties, titled, bluntly, ‘The Dangers of Decentralisation’, Remy Prud’homme made a strong case to be conserva.....
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This study is an attempt to provide an in-depth understanding of school education financing in India through an analysis of expenditures incurred across eight states from FY 2014-15 to FY 2017-18......
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जैसे-जैसे कोविड-19 देश में अपने पैर पसार रहा है, इस महामारी से लड़ने क.....
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The four phases of the COVID-19-induced lockdown abruptly closed schools to curb the pandemic. Consequently, given the prospect that children will not return to schools.....
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On 21 May 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated the ten.....
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Sometimes, the struggle to argue against something that one has stood by for a long time, is a painful one. And so has it been for me, ever since a colleague asked me t.....
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On 30th April and 1st May, we conducted a 2-day workshop with the National Academy of Audit and Accounts (NAAA). This was a first for us, in the sense that we adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic by imple.....
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I had written a few weeks back that the lo.....
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In recent years, we have seen positive developments in policy, funding and outcomes on child nutrition in India. Now, when the Covid-19 pandemic has placed a significant strain on our already vulnerab.....
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Breaking the silence on specific measures to increase health expenditure and infrastructure on 17th May, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made health one of the key.....
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Since October 2014, the.....
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The nutrition financing community in India is engaged in efforts to strengthen actions for adequate financing for nutrition. On 2.....
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विभिन्न कल्याणकारी योजनाओं में क्या घटित हो रहा है, इसको लेकर आपको हर 15 दि.....
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Changes of the past six years had put their finances in a precarious position. The current measures aren’t enough. .....
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Recent changes in India’s fiscal architecture — “including the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, and increase in state shares for the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS.....
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The Accountability Initiative working paper says state finances were already under pressure before the Covid-19 pandemic struck due to lower tax devolution and GST compensatio.....
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Kerala and Karnataka have shown how democratic decentralisation has worked in their favour. .....
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पत्रकारों के लिए ट्विटर टूलकिट.....
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This two-part blog series explains the monetary options available with policymakers to provide stimulus at the time of a pandemic. Even as the Finan.....
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It might be too early to treat direct benefit transfers as a one-size-fits-all policy solution given the difficulties some Indians have in accessing cash. .....
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The coronavirus crisis necessitates making health and social protection a priority. But we must not lose momentum on the strides made in tackling air pollution. .....
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As the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps through India, districts are being tapped by the government for timely detection and reporting of cases, and prevention. Our ‘Inside Districts’ series will fe.....
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Years back, while fighting skeptics in the government (both my former colleagues and ministers) on my agenda of devolution of powers and responsibilities to local governments, I once asked my Minister.....
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On 24th March, the Government of India (GoI) directed all states and Union Territories (UTs) to make use of the unutilised cess funds collected by Labour Welfare Boards to support unorganised construc.....
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Ecological fiscal transfers (EFTs) involve higher levels of government distributing funds to lower levels of government based on ecological indicators. In 2015 India established the world's largest sy.....
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Finance Minister has announced a three-month relief package worth Rs 1.7 lakh crore for India’s urban & rural poor to help them during the coronavirus lockdown. .....
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The Union government has announced a relief package of Rs 1.7 lakh crore today to protect migrant workers, urban and rural poor, and frontline health workers from the onslaught of the coronavirus pand.....
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There is increasing concern regarding the actual availability of adequate funds for several important welfare schemes which impact the lives of tens of millions of people in.....
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Despite the annual promise to improve women’s welfare, India’s gender budget remains skewed and ineffective. .....
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Parliament’s budget session for 2004-05 set an unbecoming precedent--100% of the budget of Rs 4.8 lakh crore ($109.7 billion) was passed without discussion, using the gui.....
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महाराष्ट्र केंद्र प्रायोजित योजनाएं योजनायों के बारे में जानिए|.....
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet Language is.....
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Budget 2020 does not provide material support for the ongoing health reforms. Unless the Centre commits additional resources to health and the Centre-State relations are strea.....
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Reduced allocations offer little incentive for the education sector. .....
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The budget is a reflection of the slowdown. Revised estimates (REs), a reflection of expenditure for the year for most schemes, have fallen across the board. .....
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According to the FM's calculation, Dalits should have been allocated at least ₹1.5 lakh crore instead of ₹83,256 crore .....
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The FM made a good faith attempt to present her vision. But the budget lacked a diagnosis of what is wrong, a prescription to address it, and made baffling choices. .....
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Ayushman Bharat’s budget has been revised downwards from Rs 6,400 crore to Rs 3,314 crore in 2019-20. .....
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To submit report within six months on Sharda Act which fixes a girl’s legal age to marry at 18 years .....
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Ministry of Health has been allocated ₹ 69,000 crore for 2020-21 .....
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महात्मा गांधी जी का सपना था कि भारत में एक ऐसी व्यवस्था हो जहाँ लोगों द्वारा .....
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Wouldn’t it be great if each citizen in the remotest of parts of our country has easy access to all key government services? By easy access, I mean that citizens are able to use these services by vi.....
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An RTI application has found the scheme’s publicity budget is directed at TV and print ads......
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'Open’ school data or official data on schools which is easily available to the public is one tool through which the public can be aware about the status and functioning of schools. We explain what.....
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An overview of the wage situation in India's flagship rural livelihood scheme......
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Only one out of eight ODF verified villages in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh was ODF while a survey by the Centre for Policy Research found that only one out of 8 verifie.....
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Read More >>In this post, Srivastav and Hathi contend that while the recently released National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey data seem to show that open defecation is being eliminated from rural India, this con.....
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Swachh Bharat rural has at least twice taken data off its dashboard, including data related to release & spending of funds, conversion of insanitary toilets which foster manual scavenging, and sev.....
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Even as health crises in India grew, National Health Mission (NHM) funds unspent by states over five years to 2016 increased by 29%, according to a recent audit by the government’s auditor. The.....
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With a little more than a year to go for Swachh Bharat Mission’s deadline of open-defecation-free India, patchy access to toilets, incomplete toilet construction and rampant open defecation among ho.....
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Networking and building relationships with politicians is for teachers a necessary survival tactic and therefore a legitimate activity, relegating teaching to the background. Teachers, on their part,.....
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Reduced funding has resulted in 48% fewer projects getting completed over the six years to 2016......
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Unclogging the government’s financial pipeline requires expanding workflow- driven IT platforms akin to MGNREGS for all central sector, centrally sponsored and state government schemes.....
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There are significant differences in the number of manual scavengers identified by the states and those identified in the Social Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011.....
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Expenditure as a share of total approved budgets has been decreasing for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.....
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The National Health Policy 2017 envisages raising public health expenditure progressively to 2.5% of the GDP by 2025.....
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While budgetary allocation has been hiked in the last two years, it’s still not nearly enough for the government to meet its 2019 goal......
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Budget speeches are all about messaging. While we all speculated on what the budget will hold for the social sector, many of us, got it wrong......
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Budget 2018: The only major announcement is reduction of women employees’ PF contribution to 8% for first three years of their employment against existing rate of 12% or 10% with no change in employ.....
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Even as schemes have received minimal allocations, this budget signals an important shift in the political narrative. Gone is the focus on jobs, skills, aspirations and empowerment......
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Even as the new National Health Policy of 2017 urges a widening of the service net, can outcomes improve without reform of underlying institutional shortcomings?.....
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Can India realize its demographic potential in the absence of a far-sighted policy for education as a whole?.....
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The challenge will be in ensuring that open defecation-free villages and cities are truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so......
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Swachh Bharat Mission is racing towards its target of achieving an Open Defecation Free India by 2019, constructing more than 2,000 toilets every hour; but will the gains from such increased coverage.....
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India has such limited access to basic education that any conversation about quality education is seen as aspirational bordering on utopian.....
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India’s poor state capacity is often blamed on inadequate government spending—but government inability to use allocated funds is also to blame.....
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The gap existing within the government education system, different schools receive variable resources and end up delivering hugely different results......
Read More >>Wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) have been frozen in 19 states as of October 31, 2017, official data show......
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Read More >>This week, one of the government's signature schemes - the Swachh Bharat Mission - turns three years old. We examine the data and travel to the ground to investigate the claims of a scheme on which an.....
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Meeting sanitation targets is important but targets alone won’t mean much unless the people buy into the messages behind the toilet talk......
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While the government’s data reveal substantial progress over three years, experts pointed out much of these claims were not verified......
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Why is the money allocated to social sector schemes left unspent......
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For years, red tape has meant that departments have failed to secure and utilise all of their funding, which has often led to critical work being affected......
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More Indians are attending school than ever before. But they are not learning much......
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Nine of India’s poorest states–home to 581 million or 48% of India’s population–account for 70% of the country’s infant deaths, 75% of under-five deaths and 62% of maternal deaths......
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Yamini Aiyar in GovernanceNow on the importance of accountability in school education to improve learning......
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There were no surprises—no helicopter drop of money into Jan-Dhan accounts, no move to dismantle ongoing welfare schemes in favour of a universal basic income (UBI). Far from being the populist, gam.....
Read More >>There were a lot of expectations from Budget 2017. The demonetisation on November 8, and the chapter on Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the Economic Survey had raised our hopes for a big bang announce.....
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It should lay to rest the ongoing debate about this government’s attempt to radically restructure India’s welfare architecture......
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The demonetisation sop is a unique opportunity to evolve the maternal and child health agenda into a universal Maternity Benefits Programme in the budget......
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Read More >>On the 1st of February 2017, the Finance Minister will present his 4th budget to the nation. Like every year, the budget speech will be followed by a slugfest as political parties and commentators arg.....
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Despite emphasis on ’empowerment’ over ‘entitlements’, which comes with its own set of problems, health and education remain invisible in the Modi government’s social policy agenda......
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An important ask of budget 2017 is a reformed Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan with a commitment to achievable learning goals and the speedy transfer of money......
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quality of healthcare, regardless of whether this is provided in the private or public system, is the elephant in the room.24/01/2017 Poor quality of healthcare, regardless of whether this is provide.....
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The lack of institutional capacity at the grassroots to deliver sanitation services is the key binding constraint to achieving Swachh Bharat......
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A rethink of the role of the centre to go beyond current effort of tinkering with financing instruments and return to first principles can determine an optimal allocation of functions across all lev.....
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Arun Jaitley’s Budget was high of rhetoric, but this doesn’t quite add up to a clear vision and narrative for social policy. Overall, social sector expenditure, excluding rural development, has i.....
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The complex intergovernmental fiscal transfer system is neither designed nor operationalised to fulfill its own vision of devolution to panchayats......
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October 2, 2016 marked the second anniversary of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) - an event that most will remember for the photo-ops of the Prime Minister sweeping the streets of Lutyens De.....
Read More >>The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This blog reports findings from a year-long qualitative.....
Read More >>The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This column reports findings from a year-long qualitativ.....
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The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This blog reports findings from a year-long qualitative.....
Read More >>There is no political will to hand over the powers and resources to local govts to respond to peoples needs. On April 24, 2013, India celebrated the 20th anniversary of the passage of the.....
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Read More >>India has a strong, vibrant economy with a confident middle class, but governance — especially the capacity to deliver basic amenities such as education and health — is its greatest weakness. For.....
Read More >>Elementary education administrators at the block level primarily perceive themselves, or report themselves to be, disempowered cogs in a hierarchical administrative culture that renders them powerless.....
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In the run-up to every budget season, public debate on social sector schemes inevitably turns to the question of the paltry sums allocated. True to script, the question of allocations and potential bu.....
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Has Narendra Modi been able to bring the ‘efficiency’ and ‘decisiveness’ he was known for as chief minister into running the country?.....
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Bihar proves that a state's good performance in development and governance pays political dividends......
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While there has been an overall increase in social sector allocation, these are by no means significant. Yamini shares her thoughts on the 2016 budget and the social sector......
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Avani and Vikram analyse the state of social sector spending in 2015 - 2016. Overall, it was found that social sector investments have in fact increased across all states, except Bihar......
Read More >>In this article, Yamini Aiyar, Director of the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research, proposes a novel approach to governing public financing of elementary education that would g.....
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This column analyses the current status of implementation of Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, and suggests ways to overcome hindrances in effective implementation and make the education.....
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Read More >>A study by Accountability Initiative - PAISA district survey of MDM - in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh has found significant problems with the way MDM is managed in two states......
Read More >>Less than 30 per cent of the seats earmarked for disadvantaged students in private schools under the RTE norm has been filled up......
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Survey finds that Delhi (92%), Madhya Pradesh (88%) and Rajasthan (69%) were among states that fared better.....
Read More >>Less than one per cent of seats were filled in the schools in the combined Andhra Pradesh under the mandatory 25 per cent reserved seats as per the Right to Education (RTE) Act......
Read More >>The implementation of the Right to Education Act's Section 12(1)(c), which requires private-unaided schools to reserve 25% seats for kids from economically weaker sections (EWS) and disadvantaged grou.....
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“Do Schools Get Their Money?” is one of the key questions which drives the PAISA (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions: Studies in Accountability) project at Accountability Initiat.....
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As the example of education shows, India’s bureaucratic reforms are falling short of maximising governance - See more at: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/post-office-state-education-burea.....
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Read More >>The decentralisation blueprint is ready. Nuts and bolts must now be put......
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As the example of 16 block education offices in four states shows, school officials, burdened by paperwork, find little time for meaningful interaction with students, teachers and parents.....
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Mind the gap—and find the money to bridge it.....
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India needs a transformation in how data is measured and analysed to form policy.....
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The Integrated Child Development Services(ICDS) scheme is one of the world’s largest programmes for early child development, aiming to improve the nutritional and health status of children aged 0 to.....
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Launched in December 2005, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is Government of India's (GOI) flagship programme for urban development. The programme consists of two sub-missi.....
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the flagship rural employment scheme of the Government of India (GOI). The scheme guarantees 100 days of employment per rural.....
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The Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme is the world's largest school-based feeding programme aimed at improving the nutritional status of students and promoting the universalization of elementary education......
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Launched in 2005, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is the Government of India's (GOI) largest public health programme. Using government data, this brief reports on NRHM expenditures along t.....
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The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) was launched in 1995 with the objective of supporting minimum needs of specified social groups such as the elderly, widows and disabled persons living i.....
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The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the Government of India's (GOI) flagship elementary education programme. Launched in 2001, it aims to provide universal primary education to children between the age.....
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the flagship rural employment scheme of the Government of India (GOI). The scheme guarantees 100 days of employment per rural.....
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The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) was launched in 1995 with the objective of supporting minimum needs of specified social groups such as the elderly, widows and disabled persons living i.....
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Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) previously called the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is the Government of India's (GOI) flagship programme for providing access to rural sanitation facilities. Using go.....
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The Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is the Government of India’s (GOI) flagship secondary education programme. The scheme was launched in March 2009 to augment access to and improve the q.....
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Launched in 2005, the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) is the Government of India’s (GOI) flagship programme aimed at addressing infrastructure and capacity gaps in backward districts. The.....
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The Integrated Child Development Services(ICDS) scheme is one of the world’s largest programmes for early child development, aiming to improve the nutritional and health status of children aged 0 to.....
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGS) is the flagship rural employment scheme of the Government of India (GOI). It provides 100 days of employment per rural household......
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The National Health Mission (NHM) is the Government of India’s (GOI) largest public health programme. NHM consists of 2 sub-missions National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Nat.....
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The Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is the Government of India’s (GOI) flagship secondary education programme. The scheme was launched in March 2009 to augment access to and improve the q.....
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The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the Government of India’s (GOI) flagship elementary education programme. Launched in 2001, it aims to provide universal primary education to children between the a.....
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This brief uses government reported data to analyse ICDS performance along the following parameters: Overall trends in allocation and expenditures Expenditure performance acro.....
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Mission (NHM) is the Government of India’s (GOI) largest public health programme. NHM consists of two sub-missions National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) National Urban Health.....
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The 14th Finance Commission’s (FFC) recommendations, accepted by the Union Government in February 2015, set the stage for a radical overhaul of India’s fiscal architecture. The recommendations wer.....
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Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM Gramin along the following parameters: Allocations and expenditures Physical progress of toilets built .....
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Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is a Government of India (GOI) initiative to transfer cash benefits such as wage payments, subsidies and incentives for a number of government programmes directly into ba.....
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the flagship rural employment scheme of the Government of India (GOI). It aims to provide 100 days of employment per rural househ.....
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The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched by the Government of India (GOI) on 25 December, 2000 to provide all-weather road connectivity in rural areas. PMGSY is administered by the Mi.....
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The Swachh Bharat MissionUrban (SBM-U) is Government of India’s (GOI) nationwide flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas. Using government data, this brief repor.....
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a fin.....
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The Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS) is a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE). The scheme was introduced in January 2007.....
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The Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U) is the Government of India’s (GoI) nationwide flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas. Using government data, this brie.....
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Clear rules that hold the entire government machinery accountable for delays in wages do not exist under the Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a team of research.....
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This Budget season, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley committed to launch the ambitious National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) with thumping applause from the House. The enthusiasm was understandable.....
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As the Indian bureaucracy completes 160 years, former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer T.R. Raghunanandan reflects on the decisions being taken by the government to ref.....
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जैसा की आप हम सभी जानते हैं कि हम लोग सरकार को किसी न किसी तरह कर के रूप में पै.....
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As the Indian bureaucracy completes over 160 years in 2018, former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer T.R. Raghunanandan reflects on the decisions being taken by the gove.....
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As the Indian bureaucracy completes over 160 years, former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer T.R. Raghunanandan reflects on the decisions being taken by the government t.....
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In the latest Harvard Center for International Development Speaker Series podcast, Centre for Policy Research President and CEO Yamini Aiyar discusses the challenges of building state capability in In.....
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हाल ही में नीति आयोग द्वारा देश में पोषण के क्षेत्र में नए सिरे से ध्यान देन.....
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As part of an internship at the Accountability Initiative, I had the opportunity to assist and administer surveys in a research project which aims to study how teachers use their time during work h.....
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Social audits have been adapted very organically into the implementation process of a number of schemes in India. This blog explores why and how citizens can use social audits as a monitori.....
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नि:शुल्क एवं अनिवार्य बाल शिक्षा अधिनियम (2009) के अनुसार प्रत्ये़क विधालय की .....
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किसी भी क्षेत्र में कार्य करने के लिए और उसमे दक्षता हासिल करने के लिए प्रशि.....
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Welcome to the start of a brand new year! Before 2018 begins in full swing, we bring you highlights of our activities in 2017. The year marked AI’s increasing contribution to on-ground gover.....
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Sanskriti Jain is presently a Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. In the conversation below, she shares her experience of working as an IAS officer and offers some.....
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This blog is part of a series on leadership in the Indian bureaucracy and is based on the experiences of senior bureaucrats. The previous blog can be found .....
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Recently, some colleagues and I at the Accountability Initiative conducted a day long workshop with a batch of development management students. The emphasis was on relaying the message that in orde.....
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पिछले कई वर्षों से भारत में स्वच्छता से सम्बंधित अनेक योजनाओं को अमल में ला.....
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Over the past decade, our team at the Accountability Initiative has collectively interviewed several hundreds of teachers across states in India to understand their concerns, work environment and role.....
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Accountability Initiative deconstructs the Indian bureaucracy through the IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer in a series of blogs by T R Raghunandan, a former bureaucrat himself, (referred to.....
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One of the reasons why I think that peer reviews and 360 degree appraisals won’t work, is nothing more than my cynicism. The performance appraisal system has undergone several changes over the ye.....
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Male, mid-thirties, native of Uttarakhand. Upper left arm disfigured due to incorrect vaccination received in childhood. No alcohol or narcotic intake. Working in Delhi since mid-1990s: first as a.....
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“The Somebody Else’s Problem field is much simpler, more effective (in making something properly invisible) … This is because it relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything.....
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I had recently attended two training programmes on Strengthening the School Management Committee[1] (SMC) to make an effective School Development Plan. One of it was at the sta.....
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So far we have seen that Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) has been successful in increasing institutional deliveries. The scheme is performing well even in some of the most backw.....
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Is the food subsidy helping the poor in India? How much money has been allocated, how much is being spent? and are these allocations efficient? Accountability Initiative's data on food subsidy show.....
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In Kenya, members of parliament receive approximately one million dollars per year to spend on development projects in their constituencies through a scheme called the Constituency Development Fund (C.....
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The Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi invites applications for a summer internship programme offering internship positions to interested MA and M.PHIL students. The i.....
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Is it an employment program? Is it an anti-poverty program? Is it a safety net? Is it a disaster management program, is it…..? Actually, it’s all of these. Public works programs are both good deve.....
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…that too many children have died? I adapt this from Dylan’s famous 1962 lyrics, but it is nowhere more true than for Adivasis or tribal peoples (called Scheduled Tribes) in India. Come mons.....
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The Paisa for Panchayats project aimed to track how funds flow into the Panchayats from the State government. We chose the district of Kolar in Karnataka and aimed to find how funds are spent by th.....
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The PAISA for Panchayats research project extends AI’s PAISA methodology to track fund flows and implementations processes at the Panchayat level. By focusing on understanding the state of fiscal.....
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‘Just letting you know, Raghu’, said my friend, a passionate advocate of participative urban planning. ‘Whatever you do, don’t try to solve the stray dog problem’. .....
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The coming years calls for adopting the new age strategies of bridging leadership and adaptive leadership if civil servants are to make a difference. Training alone cannot make a difference in lead.....
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First and foremost, the IAS needs to consciously work on curbing swollen heads within their tribe. By all means, let there be a genuine celebration of the fact that people have cleared a.....
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While some aspects of dysfunctionality within the government system have been built up through several civil-servant driven decisions that go against fundamentally accepted principles of fed.....
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Accountability Initiative (AI) has finished the field work for Chhattisgarh PAISA survey. Nearly two months of field based activities, preceded by months of preparatory work is complete now. Actual.....
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Over the last four, somewhat intermittent blogs, I had detailed the initiative taken by the Fourteenth Finance Commission in introducing a new factor, namely the extent and conservation value.....
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It is a well known fact that children of more educated parents are likely to perform better in school. It is also well known that the amount of time parents dedicate to their children, either playi.....
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The Case Studies in Accountability Series documents innovative accountability experiments being undertaken in the country. The first case study in this series documents the office of the .....
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With only five years to go to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, 2010 is a critical year for countries around the world. While many coun.....
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The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, has become the nodal agency for drafting laws on privacy and data protection in India. Recently suggestions were.....
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The Government of India has released the findings of the first ever survey of the Indian Civil Services. The report titled "Civil Services Survey - A Report" surveyed officers from all 3 India Serv.....
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The One World Trust and the International Research Centre of Canada have created a new online accountability database. At present, the database has an inventory of around 200 tools, stan.....
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What prompts collective action for accountability? Information campaigns are premised on the assumption that information can act as a catalyst for mobilizing collective action. Yet, experience sugg.....
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Honk…. Splash…. Flooding…. Crawl… Blank…..Neon amiss….Frustration…. Underlining despair… Belied...Forgotten. These are just some of the sights and emotions that we all enc.....
Read More >>Venkatesh Nayak The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection of Persons Making Disclosure Bill, 2010 (the Whistleblower Bill) has been tabled in the L.....
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How come the government gets away with putting out data that is often inconsistent? How come our politicians get away without having to justify their 'performance' in any tangible way when they seek.....
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The cornerstone of the UPA government’s agenda when it was elected to government in 2004, the RTI Act celebrates its fifth birthday today, 12 October 2010. Some might say that five years is not a.....
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Every year it’s the same story. The monsoons hit Delhi and life in the city comes to a grinding halt. For a city that so craves the rain every summer we are remarkably unprepared for it. Traffic sna.....
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The Budget Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, has released a Budget Manual. This is a first of its' kind document that is expected to serve as a referenc.....
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Over 90 countries representing nearly five billion people have now adopted laws or national regulations on RTI. However, over half the countries of the world have not yet adopted RTI laws and.....
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Accountability Intitative invites your views on the UID, on the brink of its first roll out in rural Maharashtra. We welcome comments on any aspect of the UID-- its' implementation.....
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Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) is a citizens’ group with a mandate to promote transparency and accountability in government f.....
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Recently, in a move that has been rightly acknowledged as the first tangible step toward radically overhauling the Five-Year Plan process, the Planning Commission unveiled a new approach to the Twe.....
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In a surprising turn of events, on October 22nd, 2010, the Government of India in departure from its usual torpidity approved the introduction of Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IG.....
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Read More >>Anit Mukherjee The much-anticipated budget for the financial year 2010-11 can be termed as a consolidation budget. It needs to be looked upon in the context of a reb.....
Read More >>Madhav Chavan, Founder, Pratham and Anit Mukherjee, National Institute of Public Finance Policy talk to Bloomberg UTV news about the upcoming budget and the need for the government to spend more on.....
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Accountability Initiative held a consultation entitled Civil Society and Accountability on December 2nd and 3rd, 2009. The overall objective of the consultation was to debate the nature an.....
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Global Financial Integrity recently.....
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>by Ashish Ranjan In the month of April and May 2015, there was hardly any academic work happening in schools in Bihar. Thousands of school teachers teaching in primar.....
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Read More >>The Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research is pleased to launch its Budget Briefs Series 2010. The 8 briefs in this series examine trends in social sector allocations and expenditure.....
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Respected Pranab da, While the nation lauds the Government’s single-minded drive to take banking to rural doorsteps, the Finance Ministry and the RBI are sadly neglecting a key constituenc.....
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The Global Integrity Report 2009 has recently been launched. The Report is a tool for understanding governance and anti-corruption mechanisms at the national level.The Global Integrity Report mobil.....
Read More >>In the first of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Emp.....
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Is the food subsidy helping the poor in India? How much money has been allocated, how much is being spent? and are these allocations efficient? Accountability Initiative's data on food subsidy show.....
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It is the Budget season again. Every year, the nation looks forward to the two-hour speech of the Finance Minister where he lays out the government’s housekeeping statement – revenues collected.....
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Some people used to argue that elections are THE best instruments of accountability. But events have overtaken the idea and now there are many who are focusing on the limitations of election, mainl.....
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In the third of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).....
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Whether it is the debate over access to judges’ assets or individual income tax returns, the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) gets people talking. As a developing area of legislation with few l.....
Read More >>In the last of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure on rural drinking water and sanitation. For a r.....
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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. Budget.....
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Responding to a Parliamentary Question in December 2009, the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution revealed a worrying truth -since 2006, 5,300,000 bogus ration cards.....
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"Implement priorities , monitor results, ensure transparency and enforce accountability" - that is the message of the Asia Development Bank's 2009 report entitled .....
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The Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi invites applications for a summer internship programme offering internship positions to interested MA and M.PHIL students. The i.....
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Is it an employment program? Is it an anti-poverty program? Is it a safety net? Is it a disaster management program, is it…..? Actually, it’s all of these. Public works programs are both good d.....
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In an unprecedented move the Supreme Court of India has moved an appeal before itself. The appeal has been.....
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The Global Integrity (GI) Report 2009 rates India as moderately capable of handling the “cancer” of corruption (70 on 100). With its legal frame.....
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I had almost forgotten, till I saw a copy at a friend’s office yesterday, that every year in Parliament’s budget session, apart from presenting the annual budget, the Government of India tables.....
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The Indian government is spending crores of rupees on welfare schemes. However that is news to Sharan, whose house is half built as the money from Indira Vikas Yojna was inadequate to even co.....
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Assam became the first state in the country to introduce a bill guaranteeing the right to health and well-being. The state government tabled the Assam Public Health Bill, 2010, in the assembly on Marc.....
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The RTI Act - to amend or not to amend? That is the question that has everyone talking. In a rare instance, Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and Congress President, Sonia Gandhi are on opposite sides.....
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A new Right to Education Portal has been launched by the Centre for Civil Society, as part of the RTE Coalition created to nurture a democratic space where each coalition partner and interested cit.....
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India made international headlines last week with the official enactment of Right to Education Act (RTE) guaranteeing the right to free and compulsory education to every child between the age.....
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court Bench passed an order upholding the disastrous MPLAD Scheme – claiming it was meant for p.....
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…that too many children have died? I adapt this from Dylan’s famous 1962 lyrics, but it is nowhere more true than for Adivasis or tribal peoples (called Scheduled Tribes) in India. Come mons.....
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The National programme for Nutritional Support for Primary Education commonly referred to as the Mid Meal Scheme (MDM’s) is aimed at providing supplementary nutrition to primary school children with.....
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In May 2008, the Government declared that wage payments, under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the world’s largest rural public works programme, would be made through banks. Accordin.....
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A fortnightly round up of accountability news and views from around the world. UK: .....
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The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) aims at strengthening the financial management structure and accounting systems so as to conform to best practices and meet accounting and auditing standards,.....
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Yamini Aiyar, Director of the Accountability Initiative, assesses the performance of the UPA government. (Click on the image to enlarge text.) .....
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While India is still struggling to live up to the “Nine is Mine” dream (calling for 9% of GDP to be committed to health and education), according to .....
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Delhi is a city under siege! Over the last year, a silent army of civil engineers, urban planners, construction workers and contractors have brought this to a standstill. Signs of the siege are every.....
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The documentary Selapas Tsunami (After the Tsunami), assesses the sweeping political changes brought about by the results of the 12th General El.....
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The tabling and subsequent withdrawal of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Act, 2009 by the Law Minister Veerappa Moily has raised several key questions pertaining to the power of the.....
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What effect do information campaigns have on the political behaviour of citizens and their representatives? In a democracy, having cast their votes and investing their elected representative with t.....
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On July 6th 2009, the new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will conduct its first major business activity since coming in to power: present the annual budget. Much hope resides on this.....
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How do politicians in democratic settings influence the allocation of public goods? This is a question that gets right to the heart of the accountability debate. Bureaucracies often set up g.....
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The accountability debate rages on. Fuelled by a more aware, more demanding public, in part galvanised by the introduction of progressive laws such as the Right to Information Act, the questioning is.....
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As “RTI” turns four, it is yet another moment to reflect on our hopes from it and the worries we have. Unlike many other countries of the World, RTI in India was not a hesitant starter. People.....
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The Annual Forum of the UN Solution Exchange Decentralization Community was held this year between 22nd and 24th October in Lucknow. It was attended by 135 participants from 23 states, among whom were.....
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Accept it. Deep down, perhaps even precariously near the surface, in your heart you love the fact that being well-off is slowly returning to vogue. You heap scorn at the fashion weeks (no, you couldn'.....
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I recently had the opportunity to interview 16 teachers from 7 schools across 2 districts in Uttarakhand as part of a study being conducted by J-PAL, MIT aimed at understanding the institutional dynam.....
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US Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis famously said “sunshine is the best disinfectant”. Right to Information laws or “sunshine” laws, by opening up government decision-making to public.....
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Accountability Initiative's new working paper examines the effectiveness of social audit as a tool to enhance accountability. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, Ritesh Singh and V.....
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Union Law Minister M V Moily recently announ.....
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As an intern at the Accountability Initiative one of my assignments was mapping, with the help of GPS technology, the public services at the six villages that were being covered under the PAISA projec.....
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How do we deliver elementary education effectively and accountably to India’s children? This question is becoming increasingly more relevant as India begins work to implement the recently passed.....
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Strengthening accountability relationships between policy makers, service providers and citizens is at the core of the public accountability effort. After many years of practice, piloting and trial.....
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Earlier this month, a group of eight students from Princeton University travelled with our professor, Dr. Jeffrey Hammer, from Princeton, New Jersey, USA to Duddungi block in the Warangal district.....
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In recent years, rights based people's movements have had considerable success in gaining legal recognition for basic rights and services such as the right to education, food information etc. Accor.....
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As the India transitions towards a more accountable and transparent democracy, the society gets confronted with issues that sometimes raise fundamental questions. One such issue is b.....
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The programme was launched in 2018-19 and subsumes three school education schemes: the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). &nbs.....
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Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Although rural latrine ownership inc.....
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This report is the culmination of a study conducted by the Accountability Initiative (AI) on Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin in 2017 on the request of the Udaipur district administration. The study unde.....
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About the Book India believed it could take development closer to its people, make the government more accountable, and empower women and oppressed communities through decentralisa.....
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This report describes the status of implementation of the constitutional mandate under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (Section 12(1)(c)) for private unaided schools (non-mi.....
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This report titled State of the Nation: RTE Section 12(1)(c) purports to provide an overview of the status of implementation of Section 12(1)(c) of Right to Education Act. Section 12(1)(c) mandates th.....
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How effectively are Cluster Resource Centre Coordinator (CRCCs) able to fulfil their job responsibilities? This report presents a summary of the findings from an intensive time-use study conduct.....
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Elementary education administrators at the block level primarily perceive themselves, or report themselves to be, disempowered cogs in a hierarchical administrative culture that renders them powerless.....
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This study delves deep into the implementation of four important Government of India (GoI) social sector schemes in Chhattisgarh to evaluate the nature and effectiveness of public service delivery of.....
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हम इस अध्ययन हेतु तमाम सुजिधाएं उपिब्ध कराने के जिए छत्तीसगढ़ सरकार के अजधका.....
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Public sector service delivery in India is notorious for its low coverage, poor quality and high corruption. This is in striking contrast to the political commitment to inclusive development, and the.....
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The book presents a comparative perspective across regions and states and evaluates the effective delivery of SSA at the grassroots level. Using rich empirical data, not yet available in the public do.....
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There are two dominant narratives about taxation. One is taxes are the “price we pay for a civilized society” (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.). In this view taxes are not a necessary evil (as in the pa.....
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Education reforms, bureaucracy and the puzzles of implementation: A case study from Bihar It is a widely accepted truth that the Indian state suffers from a serious crisis of implementation capabil.....
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India embodies many perplexing contradictions in development. A middle-income country with a powerful diplomatic and economic presence at the global level, and citizens in business, science, and the a.....
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Elementary education policy in India is undergoing an important transition. For decades, the primary goal of the Indian Government’s elementary education policy was to create a universal education s.....
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Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act imposes a legal obligation upon private unaided schools to reserve 25 percent of the seats in the entry level class for children from Economically Weaker.....
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Book chapter in Claiming India from Below: Activism and Democratic Transformation, edited by Vipul Mudgal......
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Between October and November 2014, PAISA went to over 14 thousand government run elementary schools across India to ask the following questions: Did you get your money? When did you get your money? D.....
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Read More >>The Public Distribution System (PDS) in India is one of the most important food security programmes subsidizing foodgrains for the poor, guaranteeing remunerative prices to farmers and helping cope wi.....
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Read More >>The much awaited results of the 2012 National Achievement Survey (NAS) of Class III and Class VIII students are finally.....
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Read More >>Community based organizations such as School Management Committees (SMCs) have a significant role in functioning of schools. The recently introduced RTE Act has made the formation of SMCs mandatory. S.....
Read More >>Bihar’s Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar has been unrelenting in his pursuit of the “special category” status for the State in recent months – and with elections around the corner, we may not hear.....
Read More >>The 16th Lok Sabha elections are round the corner. In an attempt to keep up with the times, this blog seeks to provide some insight into voter turnout trends and a theoretical model on wh.....
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The study assesses the status of devolution of civic functions, role of parastatals in service delivery, structure of the transfer from state to Panchayats......
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Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects on learning outcomes. T.....
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Recent years have seen significant changes in the landscape of elementary education (EE) in India. Yet, updated estimates on public and private expenditure on EE are not available. This paper provide.....
Read More >>Male, mid-thirties, native of Uttarakhand. Upper left arm disfigured due to incorrect vaccination received in childhood. No alcohol or narcotic intake. Working in Delhi since mid-1990s: first as a.....
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Janani Suraksha Yojana, Institutional Deliveries and Maternal Mortality: What does the Evidence say? Despite tremendous medical advances, the instances of maternal and neonatal mortality occur quit.....
Read More >>Early this February, internet giants including Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and Twitter made a breakthrough in online transparency laws, pushing the boundaries on how much information they can publish abo.....
Read More >>Despite increased attention to school based learning over the past decade by policy makers, the ASER reports have shown that the learning levels of children in the Indian education system have remaine.....
Read More >>This document highlights the key features of the interim budget 2014-15 that was released on 17th February, 2014. The final budget will be released post elections in July 2014. Please keep track of.....
Read More >>I had recently attended two training programmes on Strengthening the School Management Committee[1] (SMC) to make an effective School Development Plan. One of it was at the state.....
Read More >>In all the debates about rights, social sector schemes and pushing towards ensuring quality services to citizens, there is but mere passing mention about the importance of performance management and a.....
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This report analyses education resourcing in Bihar; and examines fund flows, entitlements, infrastructure and governance of schools in Nalanda and Purnea......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Himachal Pradesh; and examines fund flows, entitlements, infrastructure and governance of schools in Kangra......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Maharashtra; and examines fund flows, entitlements, infrastructure and governance of schools in Satara......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Madhya Pradesh; and examines fund flows, entitlements, infrastructure and governance of schools in Sagar.....
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This report analyses education resourcing in Rajasthan; and examines fund flows, entitlements, infrastructure and governance of schools in Jaipur and Udaipur......
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Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects on learning outcomes. Th.....
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In 2013-14, Accountability Initiative(AI) was tasked by the Fourteenth Central 14th Finance Commission (FFC) to examine several aspects of the structure of devolution of powers, responsibilities and f.....
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We combine newly created data on per student government expenditure on children in government elementary schools across India, data on per student expenditure by households on students attending priva.....
Read More >>With a new government coming to power in the capital and National Elections round the corner; there have been a lot of discussion over issues of government. The question of why governments do not take.....
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Recent years have seen significant changes in the landscape of elementary education (EE) in India. Yet, updated estimates on public and private expenditure on EE are not available. This paper fills th.....
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Interactive Voice Response System: Closing Feedback Loops and Enhancing Accountability in the Mid- Day Meal Scheme The field notes series seeks to document the implementation of accountability mech.....
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Section 21 of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE), mandates the formation of School Management Committees (SMCs) in all elementary government, government-aided schools and specia.....
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Book Chapter: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme, Rajasthan, India in Achieving Transparency in Pro-poor Education Incentives edited by Muriel Poisson......
Read More >>Student attendance in government schools in Bihar has been low for some time.[1] The Government of Bihar (GoB), with a view to boost attendance in its schools, decided that only t.....
Read More >>In November, I went for a talk at NCAER on “Computerized data collection and the management of Survey Costs and Quality” by James Wagner and Nicole Kirgis from the University of Michigan. The abst.....
Read More >>“The Somebody Else’s Problem field is much simpler, more effective (in making something properly invisible) … This is because it relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything the.....
Read More >>Those familiar with the Indian political system will know of the roles and responsibilities of a member of parliament (MP). What do they do? If we were to go solely by news reports, hair-pulling, wiel.....
Read More >>The last few months has seen a clamour from states including Odisha and Bihar for receiving “Special Category Status” (SCS). Meanwhile, last week a panel headed by Raghuram Rajan released a new in.....
Read More >>With elections around the corner an issue that seems to have caught everyone's attention is the poor state of sanitation in India. According to Census 2011 findings, only 30.7 percent of rural househo.....
Read More >>Monitoring PAISA surveys is particularly interesting in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district due to the challenges posed to get to schools. Some schools are located close to village centers and on con.....
Read More >>The last two decades have seen a tremendous expansion of the government school system (and probably an even more rapid expansion of private schools) in India. Unfortunately, learning levels have not s.....
Read More >>A few months ago, Vibhu and I discussed the issues surrounding the delivery of grain for the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme (see .....
Read More >>(In the first blog of a series titled “Raghubytes”, T.R. Raghunandan offers readers a look at the functioning of the Government Machinery through the eyes of a former bureaucrat.) In 2.....
Read More >>In 2012, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) found that, in rural India, the number of children in the age group of 6-14 years attending private schools was 28%. In fact, the percentage of ch.....
Read More >>The following table presents the per student allocation on elementary education across India[1] and the associated learning levels in these states, according to ASER 2012 report......
Read More >>The first step when conducting a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) at Accountability Initiative is to procure a permission letter from the relevant department of that State to be able to carry.....
Read More >>As the debate rages on about whether or not US whistleblower Edward Snowden should be extradited from Russia.....
Read More >>At the turn of the millennium, Manuel Castells had come out with an argument in his ‘Theory of the Network Society’[1] that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will.....
Read More >>This article was published in One India One People magazine, June 2013 issue, available at: http://www.oneindi.....
Read More >>India has been one of the worst performers as far as maternal mortality is concerned. The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), which measures the number of female deaths between ages 15-49 years , due to m.....
Read More >>Dr. Karthik Muralidharan, Dr. M. Govinda Rao, and Mr. Ashish Dhawan, share their views in a panel moderated by Mr.Michael Walton at the launch of the annual PAISA report 'Do Schools Get Their Money?'.....
Read More >>Community participation is deeply interwoven in the implementation of the The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. Every school has to have a School Management Committee.....
Read More >>If government offices could exist virtually, they would be remarkably similar to government websites, waiting/loading time included. Most information is available but not easily accessible, like a cab.....
Read More >>Launched in 2005-06, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is Government of India’s most expensive flagship scheme costing Rs. 192322.33 crores since its launch.....
Read More >>The disproportionate diversion of public funds that have taken public attention by storm, calls for an immediate adoption of preventive measures and strengthening of regulatory foundations. The Parlia.....
Read More >>This article was also published in the Financial Express on May 11, 2013. On the 24th of April 2013, India celebrated the 20th anniversary of the passage of the 73.....
Read More >>As part of the PAISA project that tracks expenditure in elementary education in India, we collect information from state and district offices, over and above our school-level surveys. While we do face.....
Read More >>There has always been a criticism that government schemes and programmes are not evaluated rigorously. The idea of having an Independent Evaluation Office to provide “.....
Read More >>The Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme, the world’s largest school-feeding programme,[1] guarantees a hot, cooked meal to each school-going child between the ages of 6 and 14 years in go.....
Read More >>I attended the Fourth National Right to Information (RTI) Convention in Hyderabad, organized by the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) on th.....
Read More >>So far we have seen that Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) has been successful in increasing institutional deliveries. The scheme is performing well even in some of the mo.....
Read More >>Highlights for focal ministries: The Ministry of Rural Development has been allocated a total of Rs. 80,194 crore, which is an increase of as much as 46 percent from the.....
Read More >>General Trends in Social Sector Allocations: GOI expenditure on social services and rural development combined (Plan and.....
Read More >>As mentioned previously, this blog post discusses the findings from the PAHELI survey with respect to the JSY. 1. Institutional and home.....
Read More >>The Government of India (GoI) has ambitious plans “to transfer individual benefits from the Government directly into the bank accounts of beneficiaries”.....
Read More >>Since mid-January, Bihar’s public schools have seen great activity as an ambitious campaign to distribute student entitlements was rolled out. These entitlements are given out each year; however, th.....
Read More >>Picture this: a sunny winter morning, bright yellow mustard fields in full bloom, children in assorted uniforms making their way to school in rural Bihar. As the rest of the Delhi team continued worki.....
Read More >>In his 2011 Budget Speech, the Finance Minister announced the replacement of the Public Distribution System with the direct transfer of subsidies to individuals living below the poverty line.....
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Between October and November 2012, PAISA went to 14,591 government run elementary schools across India to ask the following questions: Did you get your money? When did you get your money? Did you spe.....
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With a view to reduce high levels of maternal and neonatal mortality, the National Rural Health Mission launched the Janani Suraksha Yojana in 2005. This is an innovative conditional cash transfer pro.....
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In 2012, the Government of India rechristened the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), this was accompanied by a significant increase in allocations. The launch of the N.....
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The Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme is the world’s largest school based feeding program covering around 12 crores children in over 12.65 lakhs elementary schools across the country. Since its launch, MDM.....
Read More >>“We policy people are like dolphins – extremely intelligent, but it looks like nobody knows how to communicate with us.” This quote, by Matt from Indigo Trust is by fa.....
Read More >>Velocity of data. Quantity of data. Big Data. These were some of the terms that caught my attention after reading .....
Read More >>Land has been a controversial subject area and has consistently been regarded as a principal source of inequality. This article from.....
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Read More >>An essential pre-requisite to any rights-based approach is the necessity of ensuring its enforceability. What does a citizen do in case their rights are violated or not adhered to? Who does one compla.....
Read More >>Pakistan’s National Assembly passed the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill1earlier this November. Like i.....
Read More >>I was reading Ajay Shah’s blog the other day where he made the point that merely sending money down.....
Read More >>Upon completion of our survey of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) in two states a few months ago – the names of which shall be revealed in due course of time! – my colleagues Ambrish and Mehjabeen s.....
Read More >>In my last post, I introduced the idea of Financial Inclusion, traced the extent of financial exclusio.....
Read More >>On Thursday, October 18th, I attended a seminar on “Open Data for Development” by .....
Read More >>The real estate sector in India has a large impact on its economic growth story, having ‘added over 1 lakh crore of 2.58 lakh crore in 2010-11 to just Delhi’s GDP......
Read More >>Guest Post by Shibani Ghosh, Research Associate, Centre for Policy Research and former Legal Consultant to the CIC The Supreme Court’s judgment in .....
Read More >>I was recently in a village in Rajasthan where I came across a government school with a total enrolment of 20 students. This village is not too far from a city that has a number of private schools. Mo.....
Read More >>Education is the doorway to a better, more informed world. To what extent have we succeeded in opening this door for the children of India? According to a study in 2007 (by the Public Affairs Centre i.....
Read More >>It is a good time as any to talk about free press in India. For the last ten days, protests have erupted around the world over an anti-Islam film. The Jammu and Kashmir government responded by .....
Read More >>Days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Independence Day speech, there was a strong rumour that he would announce a scheme to provide free mobile phones and talk-time worth Rs. 200 for household.....
Read More >>Malnutrition in Gujarat has been in the news owing to the Chief Ministers’ comments in a recent newspaper .....
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Read More >>The need for creating equitable access to basic financial services has been widely acknowledged by several studies in recent years. A lot of the literature on the banking sector points to a close rela.....
Read More >>The PAISA project since its inception in 2009, has been tracking the flow of funds of social sector schemes as well as studying the decision-making mechanisms involved in their implementation. From th.....
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Read More >>I am following up from Ambrish’s blog that suggests involving parents in monitoring the Mid Day Meals (MDM) Schem.....
Read More >>For the last couple of months, majority of us at AI, including me, were busy with a survey of around 450 government schools spread across 4 districts in 2 states. The objective of the survey was to tr.....
Read More >>Numerous schemes on education are rolled out with much fan-fare, with the most well-known being the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA), and the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RT.....
Read More >>In the few months that I have been assessing the relationship between government and businesses, several grey areas have emerged that have often left me wondering, wandering, and wanting, to dig deepe.....
Read More >>Over the past few months, observations during several field-visits to our PAISA states.....
Read More >>Government Spending in the Social Sector has been increasing over the years. In the financial year 2012-13, the government has spent Rs. 25,555 crores on its flagship education programme, the Sarva Sh.....
Read More >>If you have ever visited a government office, you would have been astounded (like I was) to see numerous files stacked in dingy offices, gathering dust. Yet, there often appeared to be a method to the.....
Read More >>I am here in a district with two colleagues conducting a PAISA survey of the Mid-Day Meal scheme. The survey is long (28 pages long, to be precise) and we are looking at a number of variables regardin.....
Read More >>Headlines that declare: “Navodaya Vidyalayas help the poor”, in addition to those that celebrate the success achieved by Navodaya students in national examinations, such as the UPSC Civil Services.....
Read More >>A theme that has been emerging on this blog in the past month has been the curious case of the School Management Committees (SMCs) - the last but crucial leg of the quality education marathon. Laina E.....
Read More >>If you have been tracking our work as we have been tracking development funds of the Indian government, you would have realized that it has been just about a year since we embarked on our ambitious su.....
Read More >>This year in May, a nine-year old in Scotland started blogging[1] about the quality of mea.....
Read More >>By now, you are all familiar with the PAISA reports and the .....
Read More >>I recently read Jeffrey Robinson’s book “The Laundrymen”, an expose on the diversification of money laundering i.....
Read More >>Ministries of education worldwide have promoted community engagement in education with the goal of ultimately improving learning. One vehicle for such engagement has been school committees, genera.....
Read More >>As some of you may recall, the PAISA team spent the better part of last year collecting and analyzing data on fund flows in elementary education finances in the 9 PAISA districts. This effort culminat.....
Read More >>In last week’s blog on the Rangarajan Committee Report, Anirvan outlined the process of fund flows in Centrally Sponsored Schemes (for more details see .....
Read More >>Recently, I attended the release of an interesting report, ‘Quality Education Study’, put together by Educational Initiatives and Wipro-Applying Thoughts to Schools. The study tries to assess lear.....
Read More >>During the course of the PAISA survey our field level researchers gained some interesting insights regarding the ground level implementation of SSA. Their findings, trace different elements of the imp.....
Read More >>The Report of the High-Level Expert Committee on Efficient Management of Public Expenditure chaired by Dr. C. Rangarajan (and better known as the Rangarajan Committee Re.....
Read More >>Since the early 1990’s School Based Management (SBM) has gained increasing popularity as a strategy for improving responsiveness and accountability in the delivery of education services. As a form o.....
Read More >>Continuing with our study on Social Audits in NREGS in Andhra Pradesh, I visited the Medak and Papannapet Mandals in March. The study aims to analyse the efficacy of the social audits as a platform t.....
Read More >>Teacher absence in India’s government schools is a well documented problem. Since the late 1990s, a number of independent studies such as the Public Report on Basic Education (1999 and 2009) and K.....
Read More >>It was exactly nineteen years ago, on April 24, 1993, that the Constitution (73rd Amendment Act), 1992, came into force. Two decades have passed since then but efforts to devolve real po.....
Read More >>Ambrish Dongre, Accountability Initiative The Supreme Court, in its landmark judgment, upheld the constitutional va.....
Read More >>Background The PAISA survey is conducted annually through the Annual Survey of Education –Rural. This is the second PAISA report. In 2009, the survey covered a total of .....
Read More >>In a landmark judgment on April 12, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the provision i.....
Read More >>Laina Emmanuel, Accountability InitiativeOn 30th March 2012, I attended the release of the Open Government Platform (OGPL) in New Delhi. Launched by Shri Kapil Si.....
Read More >>Yamini Aiyar, Director, Accountability Initiative India’s elementary education system is at a crossroads. In 2009, the Indian Parliament passed the Right to Education (RTE.....
Read More >>Shailey Tucker, Accountability Initiative Bihar’s elementary education budget has increased by over a quarter between 2009-10 and 2010-11. During this time, Bihar has achi.....
Read More >>Health NRHM allocations increased to Rs. 20,852.....
Read More >>The Annual Budget of India is referred to as the annual Financial Statement in Article 112 of the Constitution. It lays down the proposals for estimated income and expenditure of the Union governme.....
Read More >>Dinesh Kumar, Accountability Initiativeयह कहानी उस विद्यालय की है जिसे उसके प्रध.....
Read More >>In the first of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure on rural drinking water and sanitation . For a.....
Read More >>In the third of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ.....
Read More >>In the second of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). For a.....
Read More >>This EPW article, of which our advisor Mr Raghunandan is a co-author, examines various issues concerning the accounting mechanism for Central.....
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Read More >>The New York City Charter Schools Evaluation project analyzes the achievement of 93 percent of the New York City Charter school students.....
Read More >>For the past few months, my colleague and I had been holed up at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), trying to “uncover” the wonderful world of state budgets. Our task app.....
Read More >>Here is this week's reading list. Hope you enjoy reading the articles and watching the videos! Im.....
Read More >>There is something to the way the government functions. It might not always be clear and transparent, or accountable for that matter, but it seems that there is the proverbial ‘order to the madness.....
Read More >>Do repeated, regular social audits make a difference? Put a different way, do regular citizen-led efforts to demand accountability from government result in systemic changes in service delivery? Three.....
Read More >>Here is this week's reading list. Hope you enjoy! Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food speaking about .....
Read More >>A few months ago I attended the launch of Rohini Nilekani’s latest book, ‘Uncommon Ground’, in which she brings a selection of the country’s leading industrialists and social activists togethe.....
Read More >>India’s elementary education system is at a crossroads. In 2009, the Indian Parliament passed the Right to Education (RTE) Act guaranteeing the provision of free and compulsory education to all chil.....
Read More >>In December, Bihar is cold and Nalanda even colder. The fog doesn’t lift till 10.30am and the sun’s warming rays disappear at 5.30pm, heralding the start of a bitter, 3-6 degree chill that lasts f.....
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The PAISA survey is conducted annually through the Annual Survey of Education Report–Rural. This is the third PAISA report. In 2009, the survey covered a total of 14,231 Primary and Upper Primary Sc.....
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Between May 2011 and August 2011, the PAISA team went to around 1300 schools in 9 districts spread across 7 states to do a detailed PAISA study on elementary education financing. The study focused.....
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This report analyses education resourcing in Rajasthan and Jaipur; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Jaipur......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Rajasthan and Udaipur; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Udaipur......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Madhya Pradesh and Sagar; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Sagar......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Maharashtra and Satara; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Satara......
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This report analyses education resourcing in West Bengal and Jalpaiguri; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Jalpaiguri......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Andhra Pradesh and Medak; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Medak.....
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This report analyses education resourcing in Bihar and Nalanda; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Nalanda......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Bihar and Purnea; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Purnea......
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This report analyses education resourcing in Himachal Pradesh and Kangra; and examines fund flows, expenditures, infrastructure and governance of schools in Kangra......
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The Right To Education Act mandates a minimum of 25% reservation for disadvantaged groups and economically weaker sections in private unaided schools. This Brief analyses the key provisions for the po.....
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In 2010, the Government of Madhya Pradesh passed the Public Service Guarantee Act or Lok Sewaon Ke Pradan Ki Guarantee Adhiniyam. In 2011,eight more States enacted similar legislation guaranteeing cit.....
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Ten States of India have passed Right to Public Services Act in the previous two years with a view to improve functioning and increase accountability of these services . This policy brief examines the.....
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The field notes series seeks to document the implementation of accountability mechanisms built into key government programs for service delivery. Between 10.30 am and 12.30 pm every day, headmasters o.....
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This brief looks at the legislative framework pertaining to oversight agencies or Ombudsman in select Commonwealth countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and United Kingdom,.....
Read More >>We've been reading an eye-opener of an article by Lant Pritchett posted on Ajay Shah's blog. Here's the link to it .....
Read More >>Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research is delighted to invite you to a talk by Rakesh Rajani .....
Read More >>Two weeks into a new job, there is nothing quite as refreshing as a field visit to gain a deeper sense of the nature of work one has embarked upon. So it was that, along with another colleague, I set.....
Read More >>Cross posted from http://blog-pfm.imf.org An increasing number of governments, as well as international and civil society organizations, are promoting the pu.....
Read More >>Cross posted from http://www.access-info.org/ On International Right to Know Day, two leading human rights organisations, Access Info Europe (Spain) and t.....
Read More >>We at Transparent Chennai were looking to increase the availability of information available about the performance of individual elected representatives in office, particularly of war.....
Read More >>On April 21, 2010, a macabre incident of caste violence in Mirchpur, Haryana shocked the Indian public at large. A mob of 97 people, primarily members of the dominant Jat community, torched several Da.....
Read More >>On Tuesday, September 20th 2011, President Obama formally launched the Open Government Partnership or OGP (see link1 and .....
Read More >>Finally, the PAISA District surveys are over! The Jalpaigudi survey has just been completed; the filled, checked and rechecked questionnaires have now reached us. It took us 4 months to cover 140-145.....
Read More >>The Rural Development Department of the Government of Bihar has set up an autonomous society - the Bihar Rural Development society (BRDS) to help guide in the implementation of rural development schem.....
Read More >>A couple of years ago, during a convocation ceremony at my alma mater, Nalsar University of Law, a National Law University, P. Chidambaram, the then Union finance minister, posed an important ques.....
Read More >>At the outset, please allow me to be honest: I ran out of topics to write on. So while scanning for inspiration (and low hanging fruit), I took the most common recourse by looking a.....
Read More >>Every once in a while a trend is born. Its genesis is almost always unclear. Nonetheless there is merit to its inception which ensures that it continues to remain in fashion and is appropriated into o.....
Read More >>Ask anyone where the Anganwadi Centre (AWC) is in Paschimi Gaon (name changed for privacy) in Luckn.....
Read More >>Recently, I sat through 3 hours of a movie by Rohit Shetty called Singham. Dubbed a retro.....
Read More >>I recently came across two very interesting papers by Robert Jensen and Nolan Miller, where they.....
Read More >>We are now entering the final lap of the PAISA surveys with only one of our nine districts (Jalpaigudi) still to go live. While it will take us a few months to analyze the data (watch out for the dist.....
Read More >>The Lokpal Bill 2011 is finally before the Parliament. This is a good time to question whether the taxpayer should be forced to bear the burden of creating this behemoth of an institution or whether i.....
Read More >>A few weeks ago, the Business Standard reported that the Rangarajan Committee had recommended doing away with the distinction between plan and non-plan expenditure in the accounting.....
Read More >>The Socio-Legal Review is calling for contributions for its eighth volume to be released in 2012. The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal.....
Read More >>If I was asked to typify myself as belonging to the category of Friday v/s weekend people, I definitely would claim to be in the former. That said, I have some camaraderie with the latter and see some.....
Read More >>With the monsoons finally here, most of us have been stuck in airports waiting in vain for flights that have been cancelled. The lucky few have had to en.....
Read More >>As discussed previously, the methodology of the BPL Census 2006 was criticised which led to constitution of an expert group in August 2008. According to the expert group, the focus of the Census metho.....
Read More >>Amidst the din about corruption, inflation and shooting by Chhota Rajan, an important piece of news received relatively less attention- launch of the fourth national socio-economic census, more popula.....
Read More >>For the last two months the Accountability Initiative team has been busy with the district level PAISA surveys. The district PAISA surveys are our first attempt to develop detailed district level repo.....
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Read More >>Since May 20th, we have been in Lucknow participating in the ‘PAHELI’ workshop organized by PRATHAM. ‘PAHELI’- People’s Audit for Health, Edu.....
Read More >>As an intern working with Accountability Initiative on PAISA project, I went on 4 days field visit to Chaksu block in Jaipur district, Rajasthan. The objective of the visit was to get an initial under.....
Read More >>Can we resolve corruption without administrative reforms? I have been struck by how silent the current debate on anti-corruption has been on the question of administrative reforms. Even the far more c.....
Read More >>The Jan Lokpal is being hotly debated in the country today. This note by Mr Venkatesh Nayak of Human Rights Initiative seeks to encourage informed debate on the subject. In the words of the author.....
Read More >>The Department of Information Technology, Government of India has uploaded the text of the Draft Electronic Service Delivery Bill, 2011 (Draft ESD Bill) on its website seeking public comments.....
Read More >>It has been a year since the beginning of the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. The Act lays down a number of things to be done at the level of the Central and the state governments......
Read More >>In the last blog post, I introduced the con.....
Read More >>Engaging citizens in policy-making is a sound investment and a core element of good governance. It allows governments to tap wider sources of information, perspectives and potential solutions, and i.....
Read More >>Last month, Accountability Initiative was invited to facilitate a discussion on Judicial Accountability at the RTI convention, held by NCPRI. The topic for brainstorming was “How can RTI be used t.....
Read More >>The lack of good quality government (GOI) data and the idiosyncrasies in whatever data that does exist is a recurring theme in office conversations and the blog during or just after the budget brief s.....
Read More >>We would like to bring to the attention of all our readers, an initiative called .....
Read More >>This powerpoint presentation is a compendium of a lot of ideas which bring together technology and accountability. It would certainly give a lot of food for thought for anybody planning to come for ou.....
Read More >>Accountability India is conducting a bar-camp on accountability and technology issues. .....
Read More >>There has been a long debate about paying the government teachers (and public sector employees, in general) as per their performance. It has been argued that problems like high absenteeism, lack of te.....
Read More >>In the spirit of my previous blog I have endeavoured once again to explain various phenomena, through my own tainted glasses- my home grown typologies. This time around the innocent victim is none oth.....
Read More >>An essential question that arises while tracking expenditure in public programmes such as the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is how is money transferred through the system? Specifically, what are the pro.....
Read More >>On 28 February 2011, the Union Budget announced a 27 percent hike in allocations for elementary education for the 2011-12 financial year (FY). At 65 percent of the elementary education budget, the Sar.....
Read More >>Into its second year, PAISA2010 has expanded in its ambition, scope and analysis. If last year’s report was a statement of intent, this year the PAISA process has matured into a comprehensive expend.....
Read More >>"Accountability Initiative" in partnership with ASER and NIPFP, has come out with the PAISA 2010 report. The complete text of the report can be accessed.....
Read More >>The PAISA survey is conducted annually through the Annual Survey of Education (ASER) –Rural. This is the second PAISA report. In 2009, the survey covered a total of 14231.....
Read More >>Madiyahu block, Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh: I sat with a group of village women under a tree in the compound of a government primary school. .....
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Read More >>The Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research is pleased to launch its Budget Briefs Series 2011. The 8 briefs in this series examine trends in social sector allocations and expenditure.....
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Read More >>The United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) response to the crisis caused by the 2 G scam is monumentally shortsighted and runs the risk of losing what could well be a real opportunity for restoring ins.....
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SSA norms dictates that the proposed allocation comes as tied funds meant only for specific purposed. By comparing the needs of two schools in Nalanda District, Bihar, “A Tale of Two Schools” look.....
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A Review of the Working of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission and the Commission for Women It is widely acknowledged that India’s accountability institutions – parliament, judiciary,ov.....
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Field Work by Jasjit Bawa, Saba Hasnain The field notes series seeks to document the implementation of accountability mechanisms built into key government programs for service delivery.The current.....
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This report summarizes the key findings from the PAISA District Studies 2011. Through this analysis it argues for the need to radically alter the current top down model of education finance, moving to.....
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A Case Study of Gram Panchayat Fund Flows in Birbhum District, West Bengal Analytical studies on rural local government finance are few and far between in India. The paucity of reliable data and th.....
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Tracking expenditure through budget documents requires an understanding of the expenditure responsibilities within and across Central and State governments. “Public Expenditure Tracking For Social S.....
Read More >>A trio of major surveys assessing the state of civil, political and economic freedom across the world have recently been released.The 3 surveys are Freedom House’s ".....
Read More >>For quite some time now, India’s education system and policy has been in a state of torpor and seems to be waiting for little short of a miracle to shake itself out of the rut it’s in. While it is.....
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Read More >>Recently, Rural Development Minister, CP Joshi announced that only members of parliament would be entitled to inaugurate roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). The rural roads schem.....
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Read More >>The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the nodal agency for the implementation of the RT.....
Read More >>The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) strengthens democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform. CIPE is one of t.....
Read More >>PAISA in Andhra Pradesh (AP) is being implemented with a slight twist – one which has taught us a lot! The district administration (read district collector) of Hyderabad city has in the last few mon.....
Read More >>An executive order passed by a federal secretary supersedes the collective will of the country`s parliamentarians. Shocking as this may sound, the observation is based on evidence. Invisible bureaucra.....
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Read More >>The Governance Knowledge Centre (GKC) is an initiative of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Gri.....
Read More >>Author and commentator Gurcharan Das discusses institutional accountability with Yamini Aiyar, Director of the Accountability Initiative, at the Millenium Campaign Lecuture Series, 2010. Their discuss.....
Read More >>The Planning Commission, Government of India, is accepting inputs for inclusion in its Approach Paper for the XIIth Five Year Plan. The .....
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Read More >>In June 2010, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, a Hong Kong based group announced the result of a survey of 1300 business executives undertaken in 12 Asian countries. T.....
Read More >>The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has produced a study comparing India's Whistleblower Bill (Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Per.....
Read More >>A recent report in the Times of India, UP’s 10 lakh ‘missing’ kids hint.....
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Read More >>Recently, in a move that has been rightly acknowledged as the first tangible step toward radically overhauling the Five-Year Plan process, the Planning Commission unveiled a new approach to the Twelft.....
Read More >>In a surprising turn of events, on October 22nd, 2010, the Government of India in departure from its usual torpidity approved the introduction of Indira Gandhi Matritva.....
Read More >>The Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri Prithviraj Chavan launched the Logo on RTI and the RTI portal today in the presence.....
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Read More >>The cornerstone of the UPA government’s agenda when it was elected to government in 2004, the RTI Act celebrates its fifth birthday today, 12 October 2010. Some mig.....
Read More >>Elected politicians and bureaucrats are important pillars of governance. In India and in many other countries, politicians have very limited powers over the bureaucrats, at least in theory. For exam.....
Read More >>Social protection programmes have in the past (to a large extent) excluded the most vulnerable section of the Indian workforce; the unorganized sector. On 26th Se.....
Read More >>Every year it’s the same story. The monsoons hit Delhi and life in the city comes to a grinding halt. For a city that so craves the rain every summer we are remarkably unprepared for it. Traffic sna.....
Read More >>The Budget Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, has released a Budget Manual. This is a first of its' kind document that is expected to serve as a reference material.....
Read More >>Over 90 countries representing nearly five billion people have now adopted laws or national regulations on RTI. However, over half the countries of the world have not yet adopted RTI laws and many th.....
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Read More >>The One World Trust and the International Research Centre of Canada have created a new online accountability database. At present, the database has an inventory of around 200 tools, standards and p.....
Read More >>What prompts collective action for accountability? Information campaigns are premised on the assumption that information can act as a catalyst for mobilizing collective action. Yet, experience suggest.....
Read More >>By 2009, India has succeeded in enrolling 95% of all children in the elementary school going age into school. This is an impressive achievement. Thanks to a decent rate of growth and political commitm.....
Read More >>Do development funds reach India's poor? Back in the mid 1980's, then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi famously guesstimated that of every one rupee spent on development only 15 paise reach the poor. 25 ye.....
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Read More >>The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection of Persons Making Disclosure Bill, 2010 (the Whistleblower Bill) has been tabled in the Lok Sabha (Lower House.....
Read More >>The Case Studies in Accountability Series documents innovative accountability experiments being undertaken in the country. The first case study in this series documents the office of the .....
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Read More >>Have you ever had to pay a bribe to get a passport, ration card, driver's license or another government service? Are you fed up with the corruption in your city but are.....
Read More >>The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, has become the nodal agency for drafting laws on privacy and data protection in India. .....
Read More >>The Government of India has released the findings of the first ever survey of the Indian Civil Services. The report titled "Civil Services Survey - A Report" surveyed officers from all 3 India Service.....
Read More >>A few months back I was searching for release and expenditure data for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). Since the financial management section of the SSA portal hasn’t been updated in 2 years (the lates.....
Read More >>Efforts to bring in legislation to protect whistleblowers in India have been on-going for some years now. In 2001, the Law Commission of India studied the laws that pro.....
Read More >>This blog post is the first of a series based on experiences my colleagues and I had while implementing an information campaign on school expenditures aimed at mobilizing Parent Tea.....
Read More >>This post is an attempt to explain the process of law making in India. It also explains how citizen groups can participate in the process of lawmaking. .....
Read More >>It has been recognised the world over that good governance is essential for sustainable development, both economic and social. The three essential aspects emphasised i.....
Read More >>Unlike its predecessor the Sampooran Grameen Rozgar Yojna (SGRY), the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 outlines an impressive list of transparency and accountability mechanisms.....
Read More >>It is a well known fact that children of more educated parents are likely to perform better in school. It is also well known that the amount of time parents dedicate to their children, either playing.....
Read More >>Over the years various indices and poverty measures have been developed to try and estimate the number of people living below the poverty line. The latest in this long line of poverty measures is the.....
Read More >>Pakistan may soon have a law guaranteeing citizens the right to access information held by the government, following the introduction of a new Right to Information Bill in the National Assembly of Pak.....
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This presentation is about the changes in the social sector and whether these changes have resulted in an increase in allocation. It also addresses how allocations are implemented and the structure of.....
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Tracking expenditure through budget documents requires an understanding of the expenditure responsibilities within and across Central and State governments. Public Expenditure Tracking For Social Sect.....
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Launched in December 2005, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is GOI's comprehensive flagship programme for urban development. This budget brief offers an overview of India's urb.....
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Foreign Policy and the .....
Read More >>In August 2009, AI and the Centre for Development Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research organised a conference entitled “From Outlays to Outcomes - Getting Development from Develo.....
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Read More >>Last month I attended a Consultation Workshop on the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), now called AADHAR. With the first UID numbers being issued between August 2010 and February 2011,.....
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Read More >>On Friday, relevant ministries in the Government of India and the National Advisory council are going to start a round of negotiations to finalize the much awaited food security bill. The key issue up.....
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Do schools get their money? Between October and November 2010, PAISA went to 14,560 government run elementary schools across India to ask the following questions: Did you get your money? When did you.....
Read More >>Yamini Aiyar, Director of the Accountability Initiative, assesses the performance of the UPA government. (Click on the image to enlarge text.) .....
Read More >>An elderly man, standing beside his daughter, is yelling and waving his arms. “A tree is overhanging his property and polluting his pond” whispers my Malayalam translator. “He wants it removed,.....
Read More >>Delhi is a city under siege! Over the last year, a silent army of civil engineers, urban planners, construction workers and contractorss have brought this to a standstill. Signs of the siege are every.....
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SSA norms dictates that the proposed allocation comes as tied funds meant only for specific purposed. By comparing the needs of two schools in Nalanda District, Bihar, A Tale of Two Schools looks at w.....
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The paper examines the effectiveness of social audit as a tool to enhance accountability by measuring the impact of social audit on the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, th.....
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This working paper is an effort to trace the landscape of citizen-led efforts to hold the state accountable in India. It first offers an analytical narrative of the evolution of thought and practice i.....
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This brief provides an information analysis of a sample of RTI applications filed with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi......
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This brief provides a comparative analysis of Information Commissions in six countries Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, Slovenia and the United Kingdom with a specific focus on the system of selection.....
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This brief examines the proactive disclosure of information or Section 4 under the Right to Information Act 2005 and highlights best practices in information disclosure from Mexico......
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Social accountability mechanisms can contribute to improved governance, increased development effectiveness through better service delivery, and citizen empowerment. However, critical to the success o.....
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Neighborhood Associations have assumed an important role in public policy decision making as the principal voice of the middle class across urban India. In recent years, these associations have sought.....
Read More >>One of the most difficult things to get in Delhi is land for your house. Even more difficult is figuring out whether the land is legal or illegal, whether the land deal is genuine or if someone is tri.....
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India is currently witness to two trends that have the potential to significantly improve the health of its people. The first is the growing recognition that the system of public delivery of health se.....
Read More >>The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) aims at strengthening the financial management structure and accounting systems so as to conform to best practices and meet accounting and auditing standards,.....
Read More >>As the UPA-II completes its first year, there have been a series of articles in the media assessing its performance on various fronts. Livemint has published a review of the UPA’s reform agena, .....
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is considered one of the largest social safety nets of its kind, spending under which has totaled almost Rs. 80,000 crore in the past four.....
Read More >>In May 2008, the Government declared that wage payments, under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the world’s largest rural public works programme, would be made through banks. According t.....
Read More >>On Thursday, the Supreme Court Bench passed an order upholding the disastrous MPLAD Scheme – claiming it was meant for p.....
Read More >>…that too many children have died? I adapt this from Dylan’s famous 1962 lyrics, but it is nowhere more true than for Adivasis or tribal peoples (called Scheduled Tribes) in India. Come mons.....
Read More >>Today (May 3rd) is World Press Freedom day. Ever since it’s proclamation by the UN in 1993, the World Press Freedom Day has aimed at raising awareness about media freedom issues and to promote the r.....
Read More >>The Budget Session of Parliament has been on from February 22nd and will continue till May 7th , but with a little over a week left of the session, it begs the question – where has been the debate?.....
Read More >>From the right to education to the right to food, solving our development problems by clothing India’s citizens with new rights seems to be the flavor of our times. What should we make of this rise.....
Read More >>A fortnightly round up of accountability news and views from around the world. UK: .....
Read More >>Nirvikar Singh’s recent piece on Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY) (.....
Read More >>India made international headlines last week with the official enactment of Right to Education Act (RTE) guaranteeing the right to free and compulsory education to every child between the age group of.....
Read More >>I had almost forgotten, till I saw a copy at a friend’s office yesterday, that every year in Parliament’s budget session, apart from presenting the annual budget, the Government of India tables an.....
Read More >>Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, is planning to include s.....
Read More >>The US has recently introduced a bill, the Public Online Information Act (POIA) whic.....
Read More >>Assam became the first state in the country to introduce a bill guaranteeing the right to health and well-being. The state government tabled the Assam Public Health Bill, 2010, in the assembly on Marc.....
Read More >>A new Right to Education Portal has been launched by the Centre for Civil Society, as part of the RTE Coalition created to nurture a democratic space where each coalition partner and interested citize.....
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Read More >>In Kenya, members of parliament receive approximately one million dollars per year to spend on development projects in their constituencies through a scheme called the Constituency Development Fund (C.....
Read More >>The RTI Act - to amend or not to amend? That is the question that has everyone talking. In a rare instance, Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and Congress President, Sonia Gandhi are on opposite sides of.....
Read More >>The Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi invites applications for a summer internship programme offering internship positions to interested MA and M.PHIL students. The inte.....
Read More >>Is it an employment program? Is it an anti-poverty program? Is it a safety net? Is it a disaster management program, is it…..? Actually, it’s all of these. Public works programs are both good deve.....
Read More >>Responding to a Parliamentary Question in December 2009, the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution revealed a worrying truth -since 2006, 5,300,000 bogus ration cards ha.....
Read More >>In an unprecedented move the Supreme Court of India has moved an appeal before itself. The appeal has been filed against the.....
Read More >>The Global Integrity (GI) Report 2009 rates India as moderately capable of handling the “cancer” of corruption (70 on 100). With its legal framewor.....
Read More >>Every year the week before and after the budget, debates across all media channels and civil society tend to focus on “allocations” – how much money has been allocated for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan?.....
Read More >>The Centre for Development Finance has released a series of policy briefs that analyse and evaluate the performance of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS). The firs.....
Read More >>The much-anticipated budget for the financial year 2010-11 can be termed as a consolidation budget. It needs to be looked upon in the context of a rebounding economy and relatively stable political en.....
Read More >>The Global Integrity Report 2009 has recently been launched. The Report is a tool for understanding governance and anti-corruption mechanisms at the national level.The Global Integrity Report mobilize.....
Read More >>Sruti Bandyopadhyay Voters elect governments to solve social problems. Governments design and implement a huge array of programs and allocate huge sum of.....
Read More >>Premila Nazareth SatyanandRespected Pranab da,While the nation lauds the Government’s single-minded drive to take banking to rural doorsteps.....
Read More >>The Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research is pleased to launch its Budget Briefs Series 2010. The 8 briefs in this series examine trends in social sector allocations and expenditures i.....
Read More >>Sruti BandyopadhyaySome people used to argue that elections are THE best instruments of accountability. But events have overtaken the idea and now.....
Read More >>In the last of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure on rural drinking water and sanitation . For a.....
Read More >>In the third of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).....
Read More >>In the second of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). For a.....
Read More >>In the first of a 4 - part series on social sector spending in India, the Accountability Initiative in collaboration with Live Mint, looks at expenditure under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Emplo.....
Read More >>Is the food subsidy helping the poor in India? How much money has been allocated, how much is being spent? and are these allocations efficient? Accountability Initiative's data on food subsidy show.....
Read More >>Mandakini Devasher SurieWhether it is the debate over access to judges’ assets or individual income tax returns, the Right to Information Act (RTI.....
Read More >>Anit MukherjeeIt is the Budget season again. Every year, the nation looks forward to the two-hour speech of the Fi.....
Read More >>Madhav Chavan, Founder, Pratham and Anit Mukherjee, National Institute of Public Finance Policy talk to Bloomberg UTV news about the upcoming budget and the need for the government to spend more on ed.....
Read More >>Yamini Aiyar, Director, Accountability Initiative talks to Mint about the upcoming budget and how taxpayers money is (or isn’t) being spent, how budget allocations are made, and how public sector ex.....
Read More >>Mandakini Devasher SurieIn recent years, rights based people's movements have had considerable success in gaining leg.....
Read More >>Avani KapurAs India completes 60 years of being a republic, one can’t help but look around at our towns and cities and wonder where we are heading. And as a residen.....
Read More >>Sruti BandyopadhyayMid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) is the world’s largest school-feeding programme aimed at promoting un.....
Read More >>Pratham's Annual State of Education Report (ASER) 2009 was launched last week. ASER is a path breaking effort at monitoring outcomes and pushing for accou.....
Read More >>Yamini Aiyar and Anit MukherjeeElementary education policy in India is, as economist Lant Pritchett characterizes.....
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This brief analyses the key features of The Right of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redressal of their Grievances Bill, 2011 (referred to as the GR Bill in the Policy Brief.....
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E-governance can improve service delivery by connecting citizens directly with service providers. In recent years,central and state governments in India have been experimenting with technologies such.....
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This is the first of a series of case studies that document innovative accountability experiments being undertaken in the country. This case study documents the office of the Kerala Ombudsman the only.....
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In 1992, the Government of India passed the 73rdand 74th amendments to adopt a decentralised model of governance.The Panchayat Briefs series examines the impact of these reforms in the context of new.....
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The field notes in this series seek to document accountability mechanisms built into key government programs for service delivery. The current note examines the implementation of the Nirmal Gram Puras.....
Read More >>Accountability Initiative held a consultation entitled Civil Society and Accountability on December 2nd and 3rd, 2009. The overall objective of the consultatio.....
Read More >>Alasdair RobertsThe right to information is only meaningful if the law is properly enforced. We know this from common sense. Government officials who dislike the law will be tem.....
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Governments around the world have undertaken institutional reforms aimed at opening up spaces and inviting citizens to participate in directing and monitoring public service delivery. These spaces hav.....
Read More >>The Accountability Initiative has recently launched a policy brief series on the right to information. The Right to Information Act (RTI Act) was passed in 2005. The RTI Briefs series examines issues.....
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Read More >>Yamini Aiyar In a rather worrying turn of events, the Government of Rajasthan, which in September had unveiled a grand plan to set up a social audit cell to.....
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Read More >>Diane L Coffey Earlier this month, a group of eight students from Princeton University travelled with our professor, Dr. Jeffrey Hammer, from Princeton, New.....
Read More >>Mandakini Devasher Surie US Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis famously said .....
Read More >>Accountability Initiative's new working paper examines the effectiveness of social audit as a tool to enhance accountabil.....
Read More >>Hindol SenguptaAccept it. Deep down, perhaps even precariously near the surface, in your heart you love the fact that being well-off is slowly retur.....
Read More >>Avani KapurEvery year on budget day, millions across the country tune into their television or radio-sets to hear the verdict of the budget. W.....
Read More >>Nirvikar SinghIn the context of governance, accountability means that members and agents of government, i.e., politicians, employees and contractors.....
Read More >>Bala PosaniThe Annual Forum of the UN Solution Exchange Decent.....
Read More >>Abhijit PatnaikThe NREGA guarantees certain rights to all workers - 100 days work to each family in a year, full pay for full work, unemployment ins.....
Read More >>Zainab BawaNotions of transparency and accountability have been evolving since late 1980s. It was advocated that people must be given information ab.....
Read More >>Shekhar SinghAs “RTI” turns four, it is yet another moment to reflect on our hopes from it and the worries we have. Unlike many other countries.....
Read More >>Jeffrey HammerChecking in on the ongoing Gram Swaraj project in northern Karnataka recently raised a few interesting questions, re-enforced some pre.....
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Read More >>Recently, Jaipur’s Rajasthan University played host to the first ever Jan Manch or public hearing to evaluate the operations of the state’s Information commission (SIC). Organized by a network of.....
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Read More >>The tabling and subsequent withdrawal of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Act, 2009 by the Law Minister Veerappa Moily has raised several key questions pertaining to the power of the.....
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On July 6th 2009, the new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will conduct its first major business activity since coming in to power: present the annual budget. Much hope resides on this bud.....
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Public discourse in India has been dominated by a heated debate on how to address the endemic corruption in India’s public institutions. The agitation for the Lok Pal bill and the ensuing discussion.....
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In 2008, Kaluram Salvi, Sarpanch of Vijaypura Gram Panchayat, Rajsamand district Rajasthan, implemented a unique experiment aimed at strengthening transparency in the implementation of the Mahatama.....
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Requiring Indian Utilities to Report: Harnessing disclosure legislation to improve water and sanitation services By contrasting the reporting requirements of the Indian water and sanitation utiliti.....
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Through a literature review of key academic work on decentralization, this policy brief examines the effectiveness of rural decentralization in promoting inclusive, participatory and accountable gover.....
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Social accountability mechanisms can contribute to improved governance, increased development effectiveness through better service delivery, and citizen empowerment. However, critical to the success o.....
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How does a hierarchical, top-down state respond to efforts to become directly accountable to its citizens? This paper analyses this question through India’s experience with implementing social au.....
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This presentation is about the changes in the social sector and whether these changes have resulted in an increase in allocation. It also addresses how allocations are implemented and the structure of.....
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The paper examines the effectiveness of social audit as a tool to enhance accountability by measuring the impact of social audit on the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, th.....
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This paper documents the Andhra Pradesh experience of institutionalising social audits into the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), and uses it to analyse the social.....
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This working paper is an effort to trace the landscape of citizen-led efforts to hold the state accountable in India. It first offers an analytical narrative of the evolution of thought and practice i.....
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