A modern state is a welfare state. But a modern state does not “spray and pray” with its subsidies. It must deliver them with grace, efficiency and effectiveness. Currently ration shops in Rajasthan stock only three items (wheat, sugar and kerosene), are open only one week a month, treat citizens poorly, and have high subsidy… Read more
Rajasthan today has 592 Acts. More than 150 of these will be repealed next month. The last such review was in 1964 and even then no principal Act of the state was repealed. An interesting side story of repealing 15 of our Acts was the inability of implementing departments to provide our review committee with… Read more
Cooperative federalism and fierce competition between states is the backbone of Make In India In 1884, John Strachey, an Indian Civil Service officer, told students at Cambridge University that How wrong he was. Of India’s three projects at Independence — nation-building, social justice and poverty reduction — the Indian state has accomplished the first, but… Read more
