Can appointment of Social media executives for each district in India mark the journey towards the inclusive governance?

UNESCO defines Governance as structures and processes that are designed to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, rule of law, stability, equity and inclusiveness, empowerment, and broad-based participation. Governance must be responsive towards the people. This responsiveness will provide for the participatory ..

What are the major issues in India's political finance regime? To what extent, the current government efforts fix these issues? Discuss in the light of two amendments to the Finance Bill, 2017.

India has a parliamentary system of government. Representatives are directly elected by the people. Indian political system in spite of being a successful democracy has been grappling with major issues like: Expenditure in elections exceeds the limit provided by Election ..

Lateral entry in civil services can help to address challenges faced by civil services in India by introducing domain specialists, but it has its own set of problems.

Lateral entry is defined as the introduction of government officials directly from industry and academia without going through a regular recruitment process. Pros: Will allow entry of new and fresh talent. Provide alternate viewpoints to government policy making. Technical expertise ..

India does not have a Parliamentary Budget Office so far? What are different proposals towards this and how establishment of a Parliamentary Budget office can help? Discuss highlighting major issues.

Parliamentary budget office is a body directly linked to Parliament which independently and impartially analyses budgets and public finances and reports to parliament. Currently the budget is laid in the parliament and discussed in both the houses. This does not ..

One of the aims of the governance is to ensure that the activities of an organization are run in an efficient manner to attain its predesigned objectives. To what extent, Big Data can be helpful in this direction? With suitable examples, discuss its importance in private as well as public sector.

Big data refers to extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations especially relating to human behavior and interactions. Governance aims to ensure the activities of an organization are run in an efficient ..

What is a Fugitive Economic Offender? Outline the objectives and rationale of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill 2017 despite of presence of several laws on economic offenders in place.

Fugitive Economic Offender means any person who left the country to avoid prosecution and refuses to return back to India, despite an arrest warrant against him/her for economic offences.To prosecute such offenders, there are various laws such as SARFESI, Recovery ..

After the NDA government came to power in May 2014, FCRA licenses of more than twenty thousand NGOs have been cancelled by the Home Ministry. Do you agree with the view that the policy of curbing foreign funds to the Indian NGOs is appropriate and should be more aggressively applied? Give arguments.

NGOs are nongovernmental organizations which actively participate in political, social, economic and cultural matters , they pursue activities to relieve the sufferings of poor, protection of environment, provide social service etc. They are playing an important role on international stage. ..

What are the steps being taken to prevent the banking frauds?

Indian banking sector is in a neck deep crisis. A RTI reply has shown that public sector banks (PSBs) reported 8,670 cases of loan fraud involving Rs61,260 crore over the last five financial years. Various steps have been taken to ..