Social participation implies mobilizing the entire society or community for its own development. It becomes possible if individuals, local groups and social ...

The norms of citizens participation in governance have changed over time. Traditional concepts of democracy involved direct participation by citizens in ...

THE CHILKA MOVEMENT: The Chilka Movement highlighted an example of people's struggle on vital issues of common concern, especially with respect to their ...

The importance of the district in police administration is equal to its importance in civil administration. All the laws and rules of the state are put into ...

The Collector is the highest functionary of the District Administration. The Collector looks after both the development and regulatory areas and has three ...

Issues and Strategies of Women's Empowerment. The National Commission for Women was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1990 to safeguard the rights and legal ...

Conger and Kanungo (1988) have defined empowerment as a process of enhancing feelings of self-efficacy among organizational members through the identification ...

The pattern of Secretariat Directorate Relationship in the country is a subject of contention. There are different view points on the question of evolving ...

Society and public administration are related to each other in many ways. Society is as old as human civilization as it automatically came into existence ...

A state is an institution that has emerged out of a process of evolution, witnessing changes in its nature over the passage of time. Varied social, economic ...

An important dimension of democratic governance is the responsiveness of the government. The Index of democratic governance needs to measure the responsiveness ...

The Constitution of India contains a three-fold distribution of powers between the Union and State Governments. There are three lists enumerating the ...