Junior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Online published on 14 October, 2014.
Since 1990’s much emphasis was made by the government to reform the administrative system to ensure Good Governance to the citizens. Many rules and regulations were amended. Right to Information, Social Audit, Citizen Charter, Decentralisation and Devolution of power to Local Bodies, Civil Service Reforms, E-governance, etc. were initiated. It restored the confidence of people. But, it failed to remove corruption in the delivery of basic services to the people, poverty, malnutrition, hunger, unemployment, illiteracy, agrarian and labour unrest, sustainable balanced regional development and failed to evolve a society based on equity and social justice. In this scenario, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) should be regarded as an option amongst a range of possible tools to be applied for ensuring good governance in India. In general sense, good governance involves three basic characteristics i.e. people's participation in decision making, welfare of the people and socio-economic change in the society. It can be fulfilled by PPP practices like participation, decency, transparency, accountability, fairness, efficiency and sustainable development in formulation and execution of projects. Many projects have been initiated by central as well as state governments in sectors like education, energy, healthcare, industrial infrastructure, tourism, transportation, etc. which had helped in ensuring good governance in India.
Good Governance, Public Private Partnership, socio-economic change
