Discuss the impact of civil society-led public movements in shaping laws and institutions is considerable that shape administration in India

 civil society-led public movements 

The concept of civil society is normative, insofar as it specifies that associational life in a metaphorical space between the market based on profit, and the state that embodies power, is a distinct good. However the minimal avatar of civil society — that of mobilisation against authoritarian regimes — that has proved politically effective since the last decades of the 20th century. This concept has motivated thousands of people across the globe to stand up and speak back to a history, not of their making.

History :The mobilisation of civil societies against undemocratic governments again, after 1989 and the Velvet Revolutions in Eastern Europe, demonstrated the competence of the political public to command an activity called politics.

Thebjective of civil society is not to takeover the state. That is left to political parties. Vibrant civil societies are born out of complete disenchantment with the party system. They are, and remain, the public conscience of society. Little wonder that powerful states have collapsed like the proverbial house of cards before street assemblies and demonstrations.The task of civil society is not to wage a revolutionary war. Its task is to awaken people to the fact that they have a right to hold governments responsible for acts of omission and commission. When it takes on authoritarian states, the strength of civil society is its spontaneity and collective mobilisation. Its weapon is the Constitution; its demand is respect for constitutional morality

Civil Society Movemets In India :

During 2013-14, the anti-corruption movement launched by Anna Hazare enabled the passing of Lokpal law, and when another agitation was threatened in 2018, it led to the establishment of Lokpal.Similarly, the considerable influence of civil rights groups and concerned citizens led to the enactment of the Right to Information Act, 2005

The RTI Act is only a part of glasnost, which means transparency in governance, and the beginning of openness. Openness in administration involves taking the administration to the doorsteps of the common person. The Collector and Superintendent of Police can visit a cluster of villages every month, listen to people’s problems and solve them on a priority (within less than a month). It is not the same as endorsing a petition to the subordinates, who in turn endorse it to his next junior and further down the channel.

Finally civil society is not an institution; it is a space, the site for many projects that restore democracy