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Governance - Short Trick

Good governance, e-governance, the Lokpal and Aadhaar — one sentence each

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How to read
  • 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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Good Governance

The eight characteristics, the six Citizen’s Charter principles and Good Governance Day.

Trick 1

Eight characteristics of good governance

⇄ Any order

Ruby and Rekha acted with equal effort in Papa’s comedy theatre.

  1. Rule of law
  2. Responsiveness
  3. Accountability
  4. Equity & inclusiveness
  5. Effectiveness & efficiency
  6. Participation
  7. Consensus orientation
  8. Transparency

Ethics is a pillar, not one of the eight — a favourite exam trap · the four pillars all begin with E: Ethos (service), Ethics (honesty), Equity (equal treatment), Efficiency (quick delivery) — too alike in English for a sentence · accountability rests on transparency and rule of law.

Trick 2

Six principles of the Citizen’s Charter movement

⇄ Any order

Vicky quickly chose strong tea at an actor’s shop.

  1. Value for money
  2. Quality
  3. Choice
  4. Standards
  5. Transparency
  6. Accountability

Fixing personal liability of service-givers or privatising services is not an aim · a charter holds vision and mission, functions, clients, services for each client group, grievance redress and what is expected of clients — not recruitment rules or the budget.

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Good Governance Day

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Good cheer on Christmas Day

National Good Governance Day=25 December — first observed in 2014, on Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s 90th birthday

The word governance rose with the World Bank’s sub-Saharan Africa report (1989) · World Bank definition 1992 · three components — legitimacy, accountability, human rights and rule of law · accountability — horizontal (Parliament, courts, audit), vertical (elections, press, movements), political (Parliament), legal (judiciary), social (social audit).

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e-Governance

The four pillars of e-governance, the national plans and the Bhoomi project.

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Lokpal and Lokayukta

Where the ombudsman came from, the 2013 Act, the selection committee, time limits and the first Lokayukta.

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Aadhaar

What Aadhaar records, where the 2018 judgment made it optional, and the money-bill and metadata numbers.

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