Ethics - Social Accountability: Rajasthan government has started the process for bringing the legislation on social accountability. Social Accountability in public service delivery is defined as an approach towards ensuring accountability that relies on civic engagement. It is a product of 2 things working together: a system of institutions that makes accountability structurally possible and an informed & mobilized citizenry that can draw upon platforms of engagement to make accountability demands from the system. It can ensure increased development effectiveness, improved governance and empowerment. The need for the state to be accountable to its citizens stems out of the ‘social contract’ that the citizens share with the state. In a democracy, this contract is operationalised when citizens elect a government and invest the elected representatives with the power to govern them. External accountability (accountability directly to the citizens) like periodic electio...