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Governance not Matter less than Finance in Rural Development | Mahi Pal

Mahi Pal Singh — 2026-03-07T23:19:09Z

Strengthening grassroots governance is a buzz word today. Over a period of time, it has been in fashion to refer to local governance in decentralised development discourse assuming it as panacea for all ills affecting locality and its residents ranging from womb to tomb. Various attempts have been made to measure local level development by using a numerous ways in different parts of the country. However, there was a demand on the part of the researchers and policy makers to have access to (…)

- 2026

No Crime but Punishment and No Punishment for Crime

Mahi Pal Singh — 2012-07-31T17:28:41Z

Hundreds of encounter deaths take place in the country every year and over the years this number has multiplied into thousands. Ask any layman and he will tell you that not more than a few hundred of these cases might have been those of actual encounters. Yet no policeman or personnel of para-military forces gets booked on charges of murder even after depriving others of their basic human right of life. Since no case is registered against any of them, no investiga-tion takes place and no (…)

- 2012

The Way Ahead for Anna is Not Easy

Mahi Pal Singh — 2011-08-01T10:56:43Z

The movement started by Anna Hazare and his colleagues has brought to the centre-stage the issue of widespread corruption in the country and the ensuing debate on the Lokpal Bill has stirred the whole country. But that has neither stopped the appearance of new scams nor has the ruling class stopped defending its people involved in these scams. The latest scam that has become known pertains to the awarding of contracts in the coal-mining sector, which is much bigger than the 2-G spectrum (…)

- 2011

Fighting Naxalism the Democratic Way

Mahi Pal Singh — 2010-04-19T18:54:52Z

Since the biggest incident of massacre of 76 CRPF personnel by the Maoists at Dantewada, Chhattisgarh on April 6, 2010 heated debates have been taking place in the media about how to tackle the menace of Naxalite/Maoist violence in the country. In these debates, which take place on almost all channels of the electronic media, spokespersons of the major political parties, retired military and police officers appearing on these channels as defence experts and TV anchors always end up holding (…)

- 2010

Novel Presentation of Freedom Struggle and Partition

Mahi Pal Singh — 2008-07-30T11:26:53Z

[(Book Review)]
Company Raj Se Gantratra Tak by Prof Mushirul Hasan (Hindi translation of the author's ‘From John Company to the Republic'—translated by Mrs Madhuri Pal); Aakar Books, New Delhi; pp. 275; Rs 395.
There has been a great need and demand of various scholarly books on all subjects in the regional languages in India. In fact, the People's Union for Civil Liberties has filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court for directions to the NCERT and the University of Delhi to make (…)

- July 26, 2008

Nandigram: A Dangerous Chapter in the History of Human Rights

Mahi Pal Singh — 2007-12-03T16:23:38Z

Those who expressed their concern at and denounced the post-Godhra carnage in Gujarat will fail in their duty if they do not show their concern at the turn of events taking place in Nandigram in West Bengal. Although the magnitude of the Gujarat communal riots, which took a toll of more than 2000 lives, displaced thousands of families and forced them to live in terror during the last five years, was bigger than the killings and resultant desertion of their homes by hundreds of (…)

- December 1, 2007