Category: Management in Government

Democratically installed governments are accountable to the citizens. Most often once installed in power, government institutions tend to forget that they are accountable to those who elected them to power. In this scenario is it not appropriate to explicitly make good governance as a fundamental right of citizens. Good governance encompasses many facets of management in government: transparency, speed, efficiency, equality, conscious keeper more than being right technically, credibility, corruption free… Most often it happens that the delinquency of the government and its functionaries are not captured as violation of procedures, rules and so on, but are evident in selective application of rules, interpretation of actions taken, an agenda behind an action that makes application of rules skewed coloured by considerations of convenience …. Governance goes beyond being right but also goes into the implicit considerations guiding actions. It makes it therefore appropriate to make good governance a right of citizens and not a matter of accident, incidental or chance