About the Book: Governance And Administrative Reforms
There is today, as never before, a need to change the prevailing understanding
of relationship between governance and administrative reforms, and not to look
at it by the differences-in approach and content.
Such an approach need not be a delimiting exercise but a help to actualise the
emergence of a well administered, responsive state.
While India is increasingly recognised as an emerging economic power, its
administrative underpinnings are often perceived as weak, fragile with a limited
vision, encumbered by a load of irreversible-so it seems-procedures and
practices.
All these perceptions reflect on the capacity for efficient and effective
governance to perform beyond the