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Use this as per convenience: PB Mehta and Devesh Kapur in their book - rethinking public institutions in India - Political interference, executive overreach, the failure to propagate standards of accountability—both within institutions and outside them—have  long plagued  India’s institutional edifice NCW start with line of Simon de Beauvoir. India had constituted committee on status of women in India in 1974 . This committee came out with “towards equality report” that had recommended the formation of NCW It was established in 1992 under the NCW Act 1990 Constitutional provisions- 14,15,16,21,FD,DPSP. Fundamental duty to protect women’s dignity Dpsp- 39A,39D(equal pay for equal work for men and women), 42(maternity leave) Reservation in PRI,ULB MANDATE Drawback Dependent on union for funds and funcationaries hence hesitant to criticise union govt At best it Protects women but not empowers them Means to distribute political patronage Struggle between member secy and chairperso...

Intro: Grassroots democracy refers to the shift in decision-making authority to the organization's lowest level . Gandhi’s swaraj, Roy’s radical democracy, and DDU’s Antyodaya provide ideological inspiration to the idea of grassroots democracy DPSP- article 40: state shall take efforts for organisation of village panchayat. Context: Local self governance has been an integral part of Indian society. The Vedas mention number of self governing institutions like Sabha, Samiti and Vidhata History of local govt date back to lord Ripon’s resolution on local govt, 1882. challenges: Problem of 3Fs Panchayats have become front offices for several union and state government programmes No steps have been taken to synchronise the term of state finance commission and finance commission for better coordination of the policies and funding of schemes Community or khap panchayats running parallel to gram panchayats  Paul brass- PRI were made to fail because of the reluctance of state politicians to ...

Governor Art 153: Every state must have a governor According to Paul R. Brass -Constitution of India was born not in an atmosphere of hope, but in an atmosphere of fear and trepidation. After Independence, the real and urgent challenge was to Integrate India into one string, as partition and secessionist challenges were still present. Constitution-makers were worried if the situation would lead to the Balkanisation of India. The office of a governor was supposed to play a significant role in keeping the situation under control, as well as check any secessionist trends in the states. Sarkaria commission-lynchpin of co-op federalism Issues- Trust deficit between union and state govt due to discretionary powers of the governor 163 Soli Sorabjee in his book - The governor: sage or saboteur has held that the arbitrary exercise of the discretionary power has converted the institution of coop federalism to the institution of bargaining federalism E.g.- recently ex of Karnataka where gov did ...