Infrastructure and Governance

by Deepak B. Phatak, Gursharan Dhanjal, H. Krishnamurthy, Sameer Kochhar

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Participatory democracy, infrastructure and empowerment/Sameer Kochhar and Gursharan Dhanjal. I. Infrastructure: planning and dialogue framework: 1. Infrastructure for development/Montek Singh Ahluwalia. 2. Right to information/Wajahat Habibullah. 3. Building rural infrastructure/Subas Pani. 4. Rural telecom: connecting Bharat/Shantanu Consul. 5. Infrastructure: the cornerstone of economy/K.C. Chakrabarty. 6. Technology imperatives for rural India/Neelam Dhawan. 7. Inclusive development: infrastructure is the key/Deepak B. Phatak and Sameer Kochhar. II. Learning from MCA 21 and the way forward: 8. Corporate governance/Prem Chand Gupta. 9. Delivering MCA21/Anurag Goel. 10. Information technology as a facilitator for corporate governance/Ajai Chowdhry. 11. Secure banking: the road ahead/H. Krishnamurthy. III. State of Panchayats: focus on e-governance: 12. State of Panchayats: the journey thus far/Mani Shankar Aiyar. 13. An e-governance plan for Panchayati Raj/B.K. Gairola. 14. 2008: the year of open source/Nandu Pradhan. 15. Radio broadcasting in India/Zohra Chatterjee. 16. e-Gram/Varesh Sinha. IV. Urban local bodies: moving ahead with e-governance: 17. Unlocking value in urban India/M. Ramachandan. 18. NeGP and urban local bodies/R. Chandrashekhar. 19. Imperatives for IT usage in urban local bodies/Vikas Arora. 20. Experiences with urban local bodies/Sandeep Bangia. 21. Single window municipal services/Prakash Rane. V. Making public private partnership work: 22. Role of PPP in rural upliftment: banker’s perspective/K. Raghuraman. 23. Technology can help/Som Gangopadhyay. VI. Financial inclusion: 24. Inclusion through technology/Anurag Gupta. 25. The post office as a catalyst for socio-economic transformation/K. Noorjehan. 26. Micro insurance/S. Nallakuttlam. 27. The policy framework/H.R. Khan. VIII. e-Security and standards: 28. The CCA infrastructure/N. Vijayaditya. 29. e-Security standards/Arvind Kumar. 30. Ensuring electronic security/Debjani Nag. 31. Need for e-governance security standards/Renu Budhiraja.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sameer Kochhar

Sameer Kochhar is President of Skotch Development Foundation, which is a leading think tank on digital, social and financial inclusion issues in India. He has been passionately working towards promoting participatory democracy, empowerment and bringing improvements in delivery systems. He is India Strategy and Management Consultant to several Fortune 500 as well as large Indian companies for over a decade. He is also Chief Editor of Inclusion - a quarterly publication focused on development economies issues.