We and Our Administration

The book consists of eight chapters analyzing Corruption, Police, Population Control, Urban Administration, Executive Vigilance, Electoral Reform, Secularism and National Integration and Crime and Punishment. All are in micro fields of administration which are mismanaged or not managed at all. Corruption is a much talked about subject. Various types and causes of corruption have been classified, elaborated and analysed and in this context function and malfunction of audit and executive vigilance have been focused in the book. The chapter on Police shows why and how the lack of sincerity and political will is standing in the way of actual reform and how it can be overcome successfully. In population it has been shown with factual arithmetic as to how the deployment of family planning workers can bring about economic results more than expected in medium and long terms and what methods should applied in the Indian context. Executive vigilance had no contribution in exposing nearly fifty scams which came into limelight during the nineteen nineties. Electoral strategy should be such that mushroom growth of parties can be curtailed without offending any party and the concept of value of votes should be introduced for actual reform, the book says. The writer has a firm conviction that all systemic weaknesses of administration can be overcome for betterment in all fields through participatory democracy.