Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
Patthargarhi: Inside India’s Adivasistan
... the Adivasi-led exclusionist movement spread across hundreds of tribal villages in several states, including Jharkhand, Odisha and MP.
The Newtons of Gadchiroli: tribals rise to power in local body polls
The battle these elected representatives are waging against indiscriminate mining, and for tribal rights ...
A theatre group in Bengaluru invited Narendra Modi to watch a play that protests GST
As part of a Tax Denial Satyagraha, the Graam Seva Sangh did not charge GST on the tickets.
Successful self-governance in Barkheda leads others to embrace gram swaraj
Restoration and effective management of village commons here leads neighbouring villages to self-governance
Environmental & Economic Sustainability, Social Harmony and Social Transmutation : an example towards Self-rule/Swaraj
On an average, around one hundred people worked daily for around one and a half years to dig the canal through the mountain.
Scholar GN Devy’s Life’s Work Is The Best Reply To Those Rallying For One National Language
"As we become digitally empowered, there's a real danger of a section of people becoming digitally marginalised," he said.
Uralungal: India’s Oldest Worker Cooperative
This cooperative has pioneered democratic workplace organization and egalitarian redistribution, even in the context of a highly competitive sector.
एकमेव मार्ग (in Marathi)
"पेसा व वन अधिकार कायद्याच्या प्रभावी अंमलबजावणी शिवाय, व गाव-गणराज्य ग्राम सभा निर्माणाशिवाय मार्ग नाही"
The Only Way Ahead
The only way ahead now is effective implementation of FRA and PESA and recognition of village self rule through the gram sabha