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.
निराशा के आलम में प्रेरणा का संगम (In Hindi)
पारंपरिक स्वशासन औऱ नई पंचायती राज जैसी व्यवस्थाओं में समानताएं व अंतर को खोजना, और लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था को मजबूत करना जरूरी है।
Green movements as guardians of Pune’s nature
Individual and collective actions by Punekars to save the city’s ecological heritage demonstrate people’s power to make significant environmental and social interventions.
Immediate Action to Avoid Catastrophic Submergence in Narmada Valley
VSGA demands that the central and Gujarat state governments, immediately open more gates of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam in an orderly way.
एकल महिलाओं को स्वावलंबी बनाने की पहल (in Hindi)
महिलाओं के लिए ऐसा मंच उपलब्ध कराना जिसमें वे एक साथ आ सकें, उनका दुख-दर्द बांट सकें, एक दूसरे से जुड़ सकें, खुलकर बात कर सकें और आपस में अनुभव साझा कर सकें।
Outdated norms ‘depriving poor’ of housing benefits under 2003 Gujarat Govt GR
The inclusion of the poor to access the public lands ensures equitable distribution of resources in the city, solves the problem of ghettoisation and makes our cities liveable for all.
Approaching Life Sustainably: Through the process lens
Let’s not shy away from understanding the full story behind what we consume.
IMMERSED IN LEGAL WATERS
Opposing Perspectives on the CPCB Revised Immersion Guidelines and the legal search for a balanced view.
India’s 2024 Election Results Should Spur a Renewed Movement Towards Justice, Equity, and Sustainability
From the perspective of the VSGA, which represent a wide section of the country’s regions and peoples, these results are a sign that Indian democracy is alive, kicking and maturing.
Dharani: Towards Holistic Agriculture
Dharani Farming and Marketing Cooperative is a producer-owned and managed business enterprise of smallholder farmers located in Andhra Pradesh promoted by Timbaktu Collective