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Swaraj to Improve Governance. The need to create effective local self governing institutions at the grassroots level. Power should lie with peoples’ assemblies as in ancient India and other Countries. Peoples’ power in contemporary Indi. The need to create effective local self governing institutions at the grassroots level. It cannot even get two roads paved with this money. There is an immediate need to make panchayats and municipalities into effective institutions of local self-governance. This wou...

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. Shouldn’t the villagers have a right to directly negotiate with the industrialist the terms and conditions at which they would part with the land? A How to Guide. Hindi Blog on Swaraj. EMINENT CITIZENS OF SWARAJ. Swaraj to Improve Governance. Designed and Maintained by: Vitalect.

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. Hand Bill Engilsh Version. Hand Bill Hindi Version. Comprehensive Note on Swaraj. Overview of Swaraj Concept. A How to Guide. Hindi Blog on Swaraj. EMINENT CITIZENS OF SWARAJ. Swaraj to Improve Governance. Designed and Maintained by: Vitalect.

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. Inadequate number of Doctors and Nurses. Assigned Doctors and Nurses don't bother to perform their duties. Ill-equipped hospitals and shortage of medicines. Access to basic health care should be a fundamental right available to every human being. The western world has long been grappling with the cost of healthcare and the need to expand access. A few of the problems besetting state-run hospitals are:. Inadequate doctors and nurses. Inadequate number of Doctors and Nurses.

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. Classic Example of a petty grievance. Madhya Pradesh takes the lead. Swaraj to address petty grievances. Classic Example of a petty grievance. Even before Binny Ahuja (29), a resident of Saraswati Vihar, Delhi, got married in April 2008, he was informed that getting a marriage registered and obtaining a certificate is mandatory. There was a Supreme Court order to that effect, he was told. He finally realized that getting a mandatory certificate from a government department i...

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. Three of the most common problems faced by government schools are:. Absenteeism among teachers and Poor quality of teaching. In the proposed model of local self-governance, a school would present its requirements in a Gram Sabha. The Gram Sabha would assess how much money is available as against the requirement of that school. The people and school administrators will sit together and decide the most pressing requirements that must be met through available funds. Most govern...

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. Any system of governance that gives power to officials without providing transparency in their dealings and societal supervision of their actions breeds corruption. Empowering the citizens through Gram Sabha in rural areas and Mohalla Sabha in urban areas to question government officials and demand inspection of government records can work like a magic against corruption. The beauty of an open meeting of a Gram Sabha and Mohalla Sabha is that it brings all kinds of interests...

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. The key to improving local governance is to give complete control over functions, funds and functionaries to citizens’ assemblies. The following are the most critical conditions required for the success of any local self-governing institution. If anyone of them were missing, the institution would not work. A How to Guide. Hindi Blog on Swaraj. Our Movement for local self-governance goes by many names (Swaraj Andolan, Lokraj Andolan, Swaraj Abhiyan, Lokraj Abhiyan, Sahabhagi)...

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. By the time, money reaches a slum or a village, most of it is already wasted in administrative expenses. Information obtained under Right to Information revealed that money meant to improve sanitation in villages under a particular scheme was spent only on cars, telephones and other facilities of district authorities of a particular district. Schemes coming from the top have made beggars out of citizens. In villages and slums, everyone looks upon the Government to provid...

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Swaraj to Improve Governance. What is Lokraj Andolan? Is Lokraj Andolan not another name for a campaign to strengthen local self-governance in India? Don’t municipality and Panchayats already provide local self-governance? So what is the current mode of governance in municipalities and Panchayats? What kind of local governance does Lokraj Andolan advocate? What should be citizens’ relationship with municipal councilors, MLAs, and MPs? Who is behind the Lokraj Andolan? Is it a political organization?