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Public Policy in India - Short Trick

Weaknesses of policy-making, its actors and the major schemes — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Weaknesses of Policy-Making

The three main weaknesses in how India makes public policy.

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Three weaknesses

⇄ Any order

Five parrots talk.

  1. Fragmented thinking and actiontransport spread over five ministries/departments in India, one department in the USA and UK
  2. Policy-making tangled with implementationSecretaries spend most of their time on routine administration
  3. Too little outside input and debate

Reforms — a career path that rewards expertise, and a Policy Advisory Group in each ministry (Secretary-level civil servants + stakeholders/industry + subject-expert academics) · law is made by the legislature, policy by the executive — a court strikes a policy down only if it breaks the Constitution or a law, not for being “unwise” (India–US nuclear deal, 2008).

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Who Shapes Policy

The Cabinet Secretary, two examples of judicial activism and one of a pressure group.

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Schemes of 2015

The biggest year — six schemes launched in 2015.

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Other Major Schemes

Schemes from 1995 to 2020 — the year rides on a number word.

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Read the full chapter for the complete notes — a trick helps you remember the list; understanding comes from the notes.