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This publication is an effort to make available, to a wider audience, the two reports prepared for the World Commission on Dams (WCD) by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, one on the financial, economic and distributional aspects, and the other on the environmental and social impacts, of large dams in India. These reports were a part of the larger India Country Study that was commissioned by the WCD. The India Country Study, as submitted to the WCD, ...
Swarana Jayanti Sahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) is a major urban poverty alleviation scheme in vogue in India. It marks a bold initiative towards democratic decentralisation as it relies heavily on the community based organisations of urban poor women, instead of traditional top down systems for extension of benefits envisaged. Responsiveness, transparency, accountability, participatory solutions and consensual decisions are some of the hallmarks of good governance ...