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70 decades ago. The key idea is that local government structures have fewer levels, and
permit broader participation. With the right monitoring tools in place, they also permit more
refined accountability mechanisms, since performance is more specific and easier to judge
in many respects.
Currently, the problem is that local governments do not have enough autonomy or
independent sources of revenue to prove their mettle. But now that state governments have
been given more fiscal autonomy themselves, the onus is on them to stop making excuses,
and push effective decentralisation down at least to cities and towns. This is the level at
which the internal organisation of India’s governance needs to be reinvented most. In this
process, the power of the central bureaucratic elite at the local level will also be reduced,
and be one step in reforming that institution as well.
It is important to reform the central and state bureaucracies directly as well, but that will
have to be a process of chipping away at certain aspects of privilege, and has to be done
carefully to avoid weakening the system by increasing political interference in technical
decision-making. Perhaps, the biggest challenge will come from state-level political leaders,
who now function as regional power centres and wish to control the local level as well, like
the West Bengal under the CPM. Thus surface decentralisation is not enough to lead to
effective governance in the form of improving people’s daily lives. True local autonomy and
capacity building are needed.
Q.1. Identification of organisational weaknesses is important for good governance because-
(A) It focuses on corruption in organisations
(B) It suggests change in organisational structure
(C) It focuses on problems in recruitment
(1) Only A (2) Only B (3) Only C
(4) All A, B and C (5) Both A and C
Q.2. What is meant by the "will not serve the purpose" in the paragraph?
(1) Modern organisation theory ideas of team-building.
(2) Providing better railway services to relatively well-off in India
(3) Creating same infrastructure at railway stations as well as at airports
(4) Level the playing field for socially disadvantaged
(5) Reservations and other policy measures for the socially disadvantaged
Q.3. Which of the following statement(s) is/are not true according to passage?
(A) Broad access to primary education and health care is not available to public
(B) State governments are not responsible for ineffective decentralisation of local
governments
(C) There are three types of honest and competent bureaucrats
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70 decades ago. The key idea is that local government structures have fewer levels, and
permit broader participation. With the right monitoring tools in place, they also permit more
refined accountability mechanisms, since performance is more specific and easier to judge
in many respects.
Currently, the problem is that local governments do not have enough autonomy or
independent sources of revenue to prove their mettle. But now that state governments have
been given more fiscal autonomy themselves, the onus is on them to stop making excuses,
and push effective decentralisation down at least to cities and towns. This is the level at
which the internal organisation of India’s governance needs to be reinvented most. In this
process, the power of the central bureaucratic elite at the local level will also be reduced,
and be one step in reforming that institution as well.
It is important to reform the central and state bureaucracies directly as well, but that will
have to be a process of chipping away at certain aspects of privilege, and has to be done
carefully to avoid weakening the system by increasing political interference in technical
decision-making. Perhaps, the biggest challenge will come from state-level political leaders,
who now function as regional power centres and wish to control the local level as well, like
the West Bengal under the CPM. Thus surface decentralisation is not enough to lead to
effective governance in the form of improving people’s daily lives. True local autonomy and
capacity building are needed.
Q.1. Identification of organisational weaknesses is important for good governance because-
(A) It focuses on corruption in organisations
(B) It suggests change in organisational structure
(C) It focuses on problems in recruitment
(1) Only A (2) Only B (3) Only C
(4) All A, B and C (5) Both A and C
Q.2. What is meant by the "will not serve the purpose" in the paragraph?
(1) Modern organisation theory ideas of team-building.
(2) Providing better railway services to relatively well-off in India
(3) Creating same infrastructure at railway stations as well as at airports
(4) Level the playing field for socially disadvantaged
(5) Reservations and other policy measures for the socially disadvantaged
Q.3. Which of the following statement(s) is/are not true according to passage?
(A) Broad access to primary education and health care is not available to public
(B) State governments are not responsible for ineffective decentralisation of local
governments
(C) There are three types of honest and competent bureaucrats
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