Category: Politics - Page 25

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.

‘Ugly Indians’ clean up Bangalore

The Bangaloreans in the Ugly Indians civic group have spent every week of the past year trawling the city's central business district with face masks, gloves, buckets, broomsticks and mops. Their mission is to "spot-fix" Bangalore, dirty street by dirty street, and has inspired the confidence to throw their "Ugliness Challenge" at other cities.

Tribals prefer traditional way of governance over Panchayati Raj

Adivasis, especially from the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, have expressed their desire to continue their traditional forms of governance rather than adopt the uniform panchayat raj institutions

The story of a principled chief conservator of forests in Bastar, Chhattisgarh

A single man is showing what perseverance can do, in regenerating and protecting the forests of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh. The idea is spreading to neighbouring villages in Odisha, too.

The Grassroots Lokpal

How beneficiary-led monitoring of government-run services, such as ration shops and rural healthcare, functions in a few states.

Mendha Lekha residents gift all their farms to Gram Sabha

The Gram Sabha of Mendha Lekha village in Gadchirolli district in Maharashtra has done away with private ownership of agricultural land using the Maharashtra Gram Dan Act 1964. The intent is to further strenghthen the gram sabha by moving towards community ownership of land.