Y 10 Themes | 26 Focus Subjects | 82 Indicators TUD Y ALIT NEWQU S PUBLIC INE AFFAIRS INDEX Governance in the States of India | 2017 Dr. C.K.Mathew | Udita Dutta | Architha Narayanan | Shulka Jalodia PUBLIC AFFAIRS CENTRE www.pai.pacindia.org Committed to good governance Public Affairs Index - Governance in the States of India - 2017 Authors: Dr. C.K.Mathew | Udita Dutta | Architha Narayanan | Shulka Jalodia ISBN: 978-81-88816-93-4 We request an acknowledgement of the Public Affairs Centre's work while using this approach www.pai.pacindia.org or the data here (the suggested citation: Mathew, C.K.; Dutta, Udita; Narayanan, Architha www.publicaffairsindex.in and Jalodia, Shulka (2017). Public Affairs Index (2017): Governance in the States of India, Bangalore: PAC, ISBN: 978-81-88816-93-4). Public Affairs Centre (PAC) is a not for profit organization, established in 1994 that is dedicated to improving the quality of governance in India. 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A think tank committed to good governance, PAC is more than two decades old, and has consistently adopted the cause of the citizen in the formulation, implementation and review of government programmes in the country. The well-known Citizen Report Card (CRC) is one of its early social accountability tools that assisted the government in understanding the opinion of the people on the nature and quality of the programmes put into place by the government and its many agencies. Over the years, it has brought out several treatises and publications that reflect its concern towards good governance and citizen engagement. In denomination and in terms of contribution, PAC is now considered within the fraternity of think tanks that promote and support evidence-based policy design, formulation and implementation. 10 Themes | 26 Focus Subjects | 82 Indicators PUBLIC AFFAIRS INDEX Governance in the States of India | 2017 Dr. C.K.Mathew | Udita Dutta | Architha Narayanan | Shulka Jalodia AUTHORS Public Affairs Index The team which prepared the PAI 2017 report was led by Dr C.K.Mathew, former Chief Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan and Senior Fellow of the Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore. From the 1977 batch of the IAS, he has held important positions in Government, including those of Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister and Additional Chief Secretary in the Finance Department. He is the author of two books and is an avid blogger. He had also spearheaded the first PAI report of 2016 and has recently compiled and edited a volume of several essays by former Chief Secretaries of the states of India entitled “In the Rear-View Mirror”. He is available at [email protected] . Udita Dutta is a Programme Officer in the Public Policy Research Group at PAC and was mainly responsible for data crunching and its further analysis of the PAI 2017 report. As an intern last year she was closely involved with the preparation of the first PAI 2016. She received her under graduate degree in Economics from University of Calcutta. She completed her Masters in Economics, with a specialization in Development Studies, from Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune. Her research interests include Development Economics, Public Policy, Econometrics and Urbanisation. She can be reached at [email protected] . Architha Narayanan is a lawyer by training and is currently in the final year of her Masters in Public Policy and Governance at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Her work involved data collection and analysis of PAI 2017. She has previously worked with the World Resources Institute and the Times of India as a research and an editorial intern. Her interests lie in Ethics, Law and Governance, Politics and International Relations and she has been a part of various national competitions such as parliamentary debates, moot court competitions and Model United Nations. She has also represented Karnataka in various national and state level kickboxing competitions. Her other interests include music, martial arts and philosophy. Shulka Jalodia is a graduate in Economics from University of Delhi and is currently in the final semester of Masters in Public Policy and Governance at Azim Premji University. She collected the data for PAI 2017 and was engaged in analyzing them. Her areas of interest lie in evidence based policy design and quantitative evaluations of public policies using Randomised Controlled Trials. She has an experience of working with data in the field of Micro finance to do quantitative evaluation of the policies pertaining to financial and non financial needs of the micro entrepreneurs in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. THE EDITORIAL AND DESIGN TEAM 2017 Vivek Divekar is Programme Manager with PAC. He oversees the Resources and Corporate Relations function, apart from involvement in Research-Studies and supporting simple Storytelling through Data-Visualization. Presently, through our partner PAF he is involved with the 'Stakeholder survey of Social Welfare Department Hostels and KREIS Residential Schools in Karnataka (GoK)' undertaken within a Monitoring & Evaluation Framework and including Social Accountability instrument such as digital-CRC (Citizen Report Cards); and the 'Benchmarking of Public Services in North East India' programme, an initiative to enhance voice and capacity at the grassroots level. His areas of research interest include Social Heuristics tools of Bounded Rationality and Participatory Governance Frameworks. Vivek can be reached at [email protected] . Varsha Pillai with her over 14 years of experience in the Communications space leads the Policy Engagement and Communications Team at PAC and is presently in charge of building networks in the media for the centre. She is also pursuing her PhD from Symbiosis International University under the media, communication and design faculty. Her research interests lie in media advocacy, gender and communications, while her interest in fiction writing ensured that her short fiction stories were published in different short story anthologies. Varsha can be reached at [email protected]. Akash Vadanan is the Communications Officer in the Policy Engagement and Communication team at PAC and is presently handling the social media communication products. His research interests lie in politics, history and governance. Akash can be reached at [email protected] . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We must place on record our appreciation to the new Director of Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore, Shri G Gurucharan, who, with his vast experience both at the Centre and the State, is aware of the complexities of the subject, and who has consistently supported the writing of this report. Gratitude too to the other staff members of PAC who, through their advice and suggestions, have enriched the final results emerging from the study: This includes Dr Meena Nair, Head, Participatory Governance Research Group, PAC and Dr Lalita Pulavarti, Senior Manager, PAF (Public Affairs Foundation (PAF) is a sister organization of PAC) who provided new insights and inputs for the project. Dr Meena Nair also cast a careful eye over the text of the chapters and ensured that the errors were eliminated. Thanks are also due to two external experts who assisted in the identification of the indicators for the special focus theme of Inequality and the statistical methodology adopted for PAI 2017, namely, Dr Abdul Aziz and Dr. Kaushik Basu both from National Law School, Bangalore. Priyanka Agarwal, Programme Officer, PAC, who was involved with the first PAI report 2016 as an intern, also supported the editorial team in developing the annexures of the report. Thanks to Anil Kumar, System Administrator, PAC and Arvind L Sha, Senior Programme Officer, PAC, for their help. Special mention must also be made to the Think Tank Initiative of the International Development Research Centre, which has provided