Mainstream Weekly

How Feasible and Effective would Mohalla Samitis be in Urban Madhya Pradesh?

Shyam Singh — 2012-09-13T12:31:38Z

In the wake of the unprecedented growth in the urban population, the existing system of citizen participation has been found ineffective in providing equal opportunities to all people to participate in the process of urban governance. Unlike rural areas, urban areas have two-tier system of local self-governance, that is, munici-pality and wards. The representation ratio (population per elected representative) in urban areas is very high. In Bhopal city, according to Census 2011, a Councillor (…)

- 2012

BSP's Route to 2012

Shyam Singh — 2011-04-08T19:05:12Z

The next State Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are scheduled in the summer of 2012. This article presents the prospects of the BSP in next State Assembly elections. After securing absolute majority in the UP State Assembly elections in 2007, and the successful inception of social engineering, the BSP adopted the Sarvajan policy as a guiding mantra of the present BSP Government. This policy speaks about the inclusion of all sections of the society into the framework of the government's (…)

- 2011

Are we Missing the ‘Moral' of the Economy?

Shyam Singh — 2010-08-09T09:40:22Z

There is a common but important debate among the development practicenors and academicians about which ideological baggage is conducive to development in Third World economies like India. In such debates we always find a majority which principally favours democracy as the best political system and a way of governance to achieve the developmental goals with a higher rate of equity and equality. This abstract position has been practically shaped either by the idea of ‘state socialism' or with (…)

- 2010