This book published in a single volume provides the best and the most important speeches and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru on Indian administration, spanning ,ore than seventeen years of his active political life, as the first Prime Minister of India. Since the 1920s, he not only interacted closely with the administration in various capacities, but also analyzed the political and administration problems in his writings, speeches and correspondence. Jawaharlal ...
Panchayats and Rural Development in India: Changing Role
The vulnerability of the consumer in the present day is owing to gaps in consumer law created by market place changes that have opened up opportunities for dishonest manufacturers and sellers to victimise people not familiar with the choices and to carry out scams using new technologies. This volume is relevant in this context. The papers by experts deal with key issues pertaining to consumer protection in India. Well-researched case studies identify the lacunae ...
Corruption, Ethics and Accountability: Essays by An Administrator
Consumer Protection in India: Issues and Concerns: Silver Jubilee Volume Brought Out to Commemorate The 25th Year of the Enactment of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986
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, ...
The articles in this volume reflect the ethos and aims of public administration as visualised by the founding fathers of free India and to what extent various social, political and economic developments have realised their hopes and expectations. Has public administration become quite the reverse of what was fondly visualised? Does it lack sensitivity to the sufferings of the deprived masses and spirit of self-less public service? Do people still have some choice ...