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Bihar's Exposure to Innovative Governance Practices
Bihar’s Exposure To Innovative Governance Practices A REPORT OF THE SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON BIHAR GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI OCTOBER, 2007 FINAL DRAFT BIHAR’S EXPOSURE TO INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES A REPORT OF THE SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON BIHAR GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI OCTOBER, 2007 SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON BIHAR 1. Dr. Satish C. Jha - Chairman 2. Shri Saurabh Srivastava - Member 3. Late Shri Rajender Singh - Member 4. Shri R.K. Sinha - Member 5. Dr. P.V. Dehadrai - Member 6. Dr. Nachiket Mor - Member 7. Shri Tarun Das - Member 8. Shri Deepak Dasgupta - Member 9. Prof. Pradip N. Khandwalla - Member 10. Prof. C. P. Sinha - Member 11. Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar - Member 12. Resident Commissioner, Government of Bihar - Member iv Bihar’s Exposure to Innovative Governance Practices — A Report of the Special Task Force on Bihar ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Report is based on extensive survey of literature and analysis on issues of governance carried out by Special Task Force Member, Prof. Pradip N. Khandwalla (Ex-Director of IIM, Ahmedabad). He was assisted by Task Force Research Consultants Gordhan Saini and Sudhir Suthar. Prof. Khandwalla received support from Pravin Lahiri, Ex-Chief Secretary of Gujarat and Anita Karwal, IAS, on information/data related to a Gujarat innovation. He also received information access from Prof. Gopal Naik (of IIM, Bangalore), and comments of Hasmukh Adhia, IAS, former Principal Secretary to Chief Minister of Gujarat. The Task Force received valuable information and comments from the Government of Bihar and Kamla Prasad (Ex-Chief Secretary of Bihar). The other Task Force Members provided valuable comments. -
India's Demographic Transition: Boon Or Bane? a State-Level Perspective
Economics Program Working Paper Series India’s Demographic Transition: Boon or Bane? A State-Level Perspective Utsav Kumar September 2010 EPWP #10 - 03 Economics Program 845 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022-6679 Tel. 212-759-0900 www.conference-board.org/economics India’s Demographic Transition: Boon or Bane? A State-Level Perspective Utsav Kumar Abstract Age structure and its dynamics are critical in understanding the impact of population growth on a country‟s growth prospects. Using state-level data from India, I show that the pace of demographic transition varies across states, and that these differences are likely to be exacerbated over the period 2011-2026. I show that the so-called BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh) are likely to see a continuing increase in the share of the working-age population in total population. The BIMARU states are expected to contribute 58% of the increase in India‟s working-age population. The BIMARU states have traditionally been the slow-growing states and have performed poorly on different accounts of social and physical infrastructure. Whether India can turn demographic dividend into a boon or whether the dividend will become a bane will critically depend on the ability of the BIMARU states to exploit the bulge in the working- age population. Keywords: Demographic dividend, economic growth, India, population growth, working-age population JEL Codes: J10, J11, J18, O53, R10, R11 A part of this paper was completed while the author was an economist at The Conference Board. I would like to thank Bart van Ark, Judith Banister, Vivian Chen, and Gad Levanon for many helpful discussions and comments. -
Identity, Dignity and Development As Trajectory: Bihar As a Model for Democratic Progress in Nepal? Part I
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics ISSN: 1466-2043 (Print) 1743-9094 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fccp20 Identity, dignity and development as trajectory: Bihar as a model for democratic progress in Nepal? Part I. Bihar's experience Harry Blair To cite this article: Harry Blair (2018) Identity, dignity and development as trajectory: Bihar as a model for democratic progress in Nepal? Part I. Bihar's experience, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 56:1, 103-123, DOI: 10.1080/14662043.2018.1411231 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2018.1411231 Published online: 27 Dec 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 19 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=fccp20 COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 2018 VOL. 56, NO. 1, 103–123 https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2018.1411231 Identity, dignity and development as trajectory: Bihar as a model for democratic progress in Nepal? Part I. Bihar’s experience Harry Blair South Asian Studies Council, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA ABSTRACT Down into the last decades of the twentieth century, Bihar remained India’s poorest state and one under the domination of its landowning upper castes – a well-nigh hopeless case for development in the view of most outside observers. But in the 1990s, a fresh leader gained a new dignity for the Backward castes, even as the state’s poverty and corruption continued unabated. And then in the mid-2000s, another Backward leader was able to combine this societal uplift with a remarkable level of economic development. -
S. of Shri Mali Chikkapapanna; B. June 5, 1937; M. Shrimati Kenchamma, 1 D.; Member, Rajya Sabha, 3-4-1980 to 2-4-1986
M MADDANNA, SHRI M. : Studied upto B.A.; Congress (I) (Karnataka); s. of Shri Mali Chikkapapanna; b. June 5, 1937; m. Shrimati Kenchamma, 1 d.; Member, Rajya Sabha, 3-4-1980 to 2-4-1986. Per. Add. : 5, III Cross, Annayappa Block, Kumara Park West, Bangalore (Karnataka). MADHAVAN, SHRI K. K. : B.A., LL.B.; Congress (U) (Kerala); s. of Shri Kunhan; b. July 23, 1917; m. Shrimati Devi, 1 s. and 1 d.; Member, (i) Kerala Legislative Assembly, 1965 and (ii) Rajya Sabha, 3-4-1976 to 2-4-1982; Died. Obit. on 21-10-1999. MADHAVAN, SHRI S. : B.Com., B.L.; A.I.A.D.M.K. (Tamil Nadu); s .of Shri Selliah Pillai; b . October 3, 1933; m. Shrimati Dhanalakshmi, 1 s. and 2 d.; Member, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, 1962-76 and 1984-87; Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu, 1967-76; Member, Rajya Sabha, 3-4-1990 to 2-4- 1996. Per. Add. : 17, Sixth Main Road, Raja Annamalai Puram, Madras (Tamil Nadu). MADNI, SHRI MAULANA ASAD : Fazil (equivalent to M.A. in Islamic Theology); Congress (I) (Uttar Pradesh); s. of Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madni; b. 1928; m. Shrimati Barirah Bano, 4 s. and 2 d.; Vice-President, U.P.C.C.; Member, Rajya Sabha, 3-4-1968 to 2-4-1974, 5-7-1980 to 4-7-1986 and 3-4-1988 to 2-4-1994. Per. Add . : Madani Manzil , Deoband , District Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh). MAHABIR PRASAD, DR. : M.A., Ph.D.; Janata Party (Bihar); s. of Shri Sahdev Yadav; b. 1939; m. Shrimati Chandra Kala Devi, 2 s. -
Conference Agenda
CONFERENCE AGENDA 8:30 AM: Participant Registration and Coffee 9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions Iqbal Dhaliwal, Director of Policy, J-PAL Global, M.I.T. Gyanendra Badgaiyan, Director of J-PAL South Asia at IFMR, Chennai 9:30 AM HEALTH - Full Immunization, Fortification & Provider Attendance Rachel Glennerster, Executive Director, J-PAL, M.I.T. Neelima Khetan, CEO, Seva Mandir, Udaipur, Rajasthan 10:15 AM HEALTH - Improving Health and Increasing School Attendance via Deworming Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California - San Diego L.V. Subramanyam, I.A.S., Principal Secretary-Health, Government of Andhra Pradesh 10:45 AM Coffee break 11:00 AM Inauguration and Key Findings Honorable Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics, M.I.T. 12:00 PM GOVERNANCE - Voters' Campaign Rohini Pande, Professor of Economics, Harvard University Anjali Bhardwaj, Founding Member and Director, Satark Nagrik Sangathan, Delhi 12:45 PM Lunch break 1:45 PM PANEL DISCUSSION - Partnerships for Bihar’s Development Keynote Speaker: Honorable Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Honorable N.K. Singh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Bihar Navin Kumar, I.A.S., Development Commissioner, Government of Bihar Bhanu Pratap Sharma, I.A.S., Principal Secretary of Finance, Government of Bihar Michael Anderson, Head of the India Program, UK Department for International Development Roberto Zagha, World Bank Country Director for India Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics, M.I.T. Robin Burgess, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics 3:00 PM GOVERNANCE - Improving Police Effectiveness in Rajasthan Esther Duflo, Professor of Economics, M.I.T. -
Assessing the Promise and Limitations of Joint Forest Management in an Era of Globalisation: the Case of West Bengal.1
Assessing the promise and limitations of Joint Forest Management in an era of globalisation: the case of West Bengal.1 Douglas Hill, Australian National University. Introduction This paper seeks to interrogate the claims of the dominant discourses of globalisation with regard to their compatibility with mechanisms for empowering marginalised communities and providing a basis for sustainable livelihood strategies. These concerns are examined from the perspective of the development experience of India, including the New Economic Policy (NEP) regime initiated in India in 1991, and its subsequent structural transformation towards greater conformity with the imperatives of ‘economic liberalisation’. It suggests that the Indian institutional structure of development has been such that resources have been unequally distributed and that this has reinforced certain biases particularly on a caste/class and gender basis. The analysis suggests that these biases have reduced the legitimacy of previous models of resource management and continue to hamper the prospects of current formulations. These concerns are analysed utilising an examination of the management of forest-based Common Property Resources (CPRs) within the context of rural West Bengal, specifically the system of Joint Forest Management (JFM) i. Such an examination is pertinent since those communities dependent upon CPRs for a substantial part of their subsistence requirements are amongst the most vulnerable strata of society. As Agrawhal, (1999), Platteau (1999, 1997) and others have argued, these CPRs function as a “social safety net” or “fall-back position”ii. This should be seen within the broader context of rural development, since the success or failure of the total rural development environment including poverty alleviation programs, agriculture, rural credit and employment (both on and off farm), will influence the relative dependence on these CPRs. -
The Evolution of Institutions in India and Its Relationship with Economic Growth
The Evolution of Institutions in India and its Relationship with Economic Growth Arvind Subramanian Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development, and Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University April 2007 I am grateful to Josh Felman, Ejaz Ghani, Ajay Chhibber, Shanta Devarajan, Nurul Islam, Simon Johnson, Devesh Kapur, Sanjay Kathuria, Deena Khatkhate, Kalpana Kochhar, Utsav Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nandan Nilekani, Raghuram Rajan, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Krishna Srinivasan, and S. Sriramachandran for useful discussions. This paper draws upon work with my colleagues, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova. An anonymous referee and the editors provided helpful comments. Manzoor Gill and Thoihen Singh provided excellent assistance with data. 2 I. Introduction The tepid-to-torrid transformation in India’s economic growth since the early 1980s is one of the big stories of recent times. Whereas “Midnight’s children” saw their standard of living double over forty years, Midnight’s grandchildren—the “India Shining” generation—can expect a five- or six-fold improvement in their lifetimes. But how have India’s public economic institutions fared over this period? And what is their relationship with this growth transformation? This paper represents a modest and preliminary attempt at answering these questions. On the first, this paper presents some stylized facts and new empirical evidence on the evolution in selected public institutions in India. The main finding is that, at least based on the limited number of institutions explored in this paper—the bureaucracy and judiciary-- there does not seem to be evidence of improvements in the average quality of institutions over time; if anything, the evidence leans in the other direction. -
Interlinkages of Literacy and Household Poverty in India: Inter-District and Socio-Demographic Disparities
Volume 1- Issue 5 : 2017 DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000467 Bidyadhar Dehury. Biomed J Sci & Tech Res ISSN: 2574-1241 Research Article Open Access Interlinkages of Literacy and Household Poverty in India: Inter-District and Socio-Demographic Disparities Bidyadhar Dehury* Sr. Programe Associate, India Health Action Trust (IHAT), India Received: September 09, 2017; Published: October 26, 2017 *Corresponding author: Sabha Marg, Lucknow-226001, Uttar Pradesh, India, Tel: ; Email: Bidyadhar Dehury, India Health Action Trust, UP-TSU Office, No. 404, 4th Floor & 505, 5th Floor, No. 20-A, Ratan Square, Vidhan Abstract Poverty and illiteracy are the greatest challenges in the process of development. Though India has witnessed tremendous improvement both in reducing poverty and increasing literacy rate, the inter-district variations and differentials within different population subgroups are still large. Using the Census of India, 2011 data this paper attempts to understand the inter-district variations in poverty and literacy status and also differentials of literacy rate among different social sub-groups. The census of India collects the information on seven household assets. These are used to construct the wealth index as a proxy for consumption poverty using Principal Component Analysis from inter-district variations. The preliminary results show that the inter-district and intra-district variations are large in assets possession. India has 17.8% of the households those do not possess any of the specified household assets with lowest in Chennai district of Tamil Nadu with less than one percent and highest in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh with 64.9%. With respect to the effective literacy status, India has 73% of literate population among 7 years and above. -
RAJYA SABHA ______∗SYNOPSIS of DEBATE ______(Proceedings Other Than Questions and Answers) ______Wednesday, August 24, 2011/ Bhadrapada 2, 1933 (Saka) ______
RAJYA SABHA _________ ∗SYNOPSIS OF DEBATE _________ (Proceedings other than Questions and Answers) _________ Wednesday, August 24, 2011/ Bhadrapada 2, 1933 (Saka) _________ OBITUARY REFERENCE MR. CHAIRMAN: Hon. Members, I refer with profound sorrow to the passing away of Shri Rafique Alam, a former Member of this House on the 3rd of April, 2011 at the age of 82 years. Born at Kashibari in Purnea, Bihar in June, 1929, Shri Rafique Alam had his education at Russel High School, Kishanganj High School, Purnea, and Aligarh Muslim University. An agriculturist, Shri Rafique Alam was associated with several educational institutions in Purnea district of Bihar. Shri Rafique Alam was the recipient of the National Integration Award, 1988. Shri Alam began his legislative career as a Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1962 and was a Member of that Assembly from 1962 to 1967 and again from 1969 to 1980. He served as Cabinet Minister in the Government of Bihar for several terms, holding portfolios of Transport, Local Self-Government, Irrigation, Housing, Jails, Animal Husbandry, Fishery and Wakf, PWD, Rural Reconstruction and Panchayati Raj. Shri Rafique Alam represented the State of Bihar in this House from April, 1982 to April, 1988, and again from April, 1988 to ___________________________________________________ ∗This Synopsis is not an authoritative record of the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha. 206 April, 1994. Shri Rafique Alam also served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from February to June, 1988; as Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles from 1988 to 1989, and as Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare from July to November, 1989 in the Union Council of Ministers. -
The BIMARU States of India
Tech Musings The BIMARU States of India Rajneesh De, Group Editor [email protected] oted demographer Ashish Bose coined the acronym BIMARU (referring to the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) in a paper submitted to the then PM Rajiv Gandhi in the mid 80s to group together states which were lagging behind in both economic Nand social indices and thereby retarding India’s overall development. The name (meaning ‘sick’ in Hindi) stuck and virtually the entire Hindi heartland of India came to represent whatever was ailing the country and proving to be a roadblock to its march into becoming the next global superpower. After more than two decades and nine PMs, the process of resuscitation has yet to finally start. While Bihar, perennially derided as the Achilles Heel for the country’s development, has recovered to some extent, the states of UP, MP and Rajasthan are perennial laggards. While technology, especially e-governance, has taken much strides over the years, the ground situations especially in UP and Rajasthan (MP ranks slightly better) are still pathetic. And this despite both these states witnessing a number of regime changes with 180 degree turn in political dispensation. Uttar Pradesh in particular has witnessed all political colors over the years, but the situation is worsening day by day; instead of becoming ‘Uttam’ Pradesh, it is further deteriorating into the ‘Niruttam’ Pradesh of India. The reasons are not far to see—technology might have been a While technology, game changer, but if it has been leveraged properly. Instead we are seeing a spiraling population going out of control, minimal scores on all social indices, religious obscurantism and bigotry plaguing the especially very growth of the state. -
Zila Parishad JITESH KUMAR ARARIA
Panchayati Raj Department Government of Bihar List of Panchayat IT Operators Deployed in the Districts for PRIASoft SL District Block Name Father's Name Mobile 1 Zila Parishad JITESH KUMAR 2 Araria RAJ KUMAR RAJ KRIPA NAND JHA 9835838537 3 Bhargama MD. SARWAR ALAM MD. SIRAJUDDIN 9709996217 4 Forbesganj SANJAY KUMAR SAH MAHENDRA SAH 9199120088 5 Jokihat MD. ASHALAM JAFAR HAZI ASFAQUE HUSAIN 9308734215 ARARIA 6 Kursakatta SANTOSH KUMAR SAH MAKSHUDAN SAH 7 Narpatganj MANOJ KR. BHARATI BHAGWAN MANDAL 9709573281 8 Palasi 9 Raniganj ANUBHAV KUMAR JAI PRAKASH NAYAK 9570357990 10 Sikti PREM KUMAR PASWAN YOGENDRA PASWAN 7250394187 D:\Sarvesh-2012\IT Operators Deployed in District HQ Block\IT Operators deployed in the districts_HQ_Block 1 | 38 it operator_Blocks_n_HQ_280 (2) Panchayati Raj Department Government of Bihar List of Panchayat IT Operators Deployed in the Districts for PRIASoft SL District Block Name Father's Name Mobile 1 Zila Parishad SANTOSH KUMAR 9771734044 2 Arwal ARVIND KUMAR BHIM SINGH 9334480335 3 Kaler AMITSH SHRIVASTAV VIJAY KUMAR SHRIVASTAV ARWAL 4 Karapi RAVIRANJAN KR. PARASAR HARIDWAR SHARMA 8334800422 5 Kurtha KUNDAN KUMAR BINESHWAR PANDIT 9279386443 6 Sonabhadra Vanshi Suryapur MANOJ KUMAR LEELA SINGH D:\Sarvesh-2012\IT Operators Deployed in District HQ Block\IT Operators deployed in the districts_HQ_Block 2 | 38 it operator_Blocks_n_HQ_280 (2) Panchayati Raj Department Government of Bihar List of Panchayat IT Operators Deployed in the Districts for PRIASoft SL District Block Name Father's Name Mobile 1 Zila Parishad RAKESH -
The Emerging Giant
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION INDIA: THE EMERGING GIANT Washington, D.C. Thursday, February 14, 2008 Introduction and Moderator: BARRY BOSWORTH Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution Featured Speaker: ARVIND PANAGARIYA Nonresident senior Fellow, The Brookings institution Professor Economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University Discussant: SHANTA DEVARAJAN Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank * * * * * ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 P R O C E E D I N G S MR. BOSWORTH: Good morning. I’m Barry Bosworth of the Brookings Institution. We’re here this morning. We thought that a release of a book by Arvind Panagariya on India: The Emerging Giant provided a good opportunity to have a discussion of why all of a sudden India is growing so rapidly and has attracted an enormous amount of attention. We thought we would begin by giving Arvind a chance to say something in the way of opening remarks. And Shanta Devarajan from the World Bank is going to be our discussant. And then we thought, after the two of them have had some exchanges, we’d open it up for some general comments and discussion. So why don’t we get started with Arvind Panagariya from Columbia University. MR. PANAGARIYA: Thank you, Barry. It’s a pleasure to be here. My thanks to Ann for organizing this so meticulously. Let me see -- this is a very comprehensive book, 544 pages long. So, obviously, there’s not even a small fraction of what is in the book that I can tell you about here in my presentation.