Good Governance

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Good Governance

Since such defective democracy reflects on governance, it is useful to have a brief on good governance. Governance in India is not in an admirable state of affairs. One needs to refer to books by foreign authors such as Gunnar Myrdal and scholars on the subject of governance.

Governance involves two or three stages. 

One is to formulate right public policies and enact them into law. Strict and honest implementation of laws is the soul of good governance. 

The second is right man at right place. We need to marry merit and integrity with “authority”, which means public official, judge and minister are honest and meritorious to deliver goods and services. They hold authority (public power). Therefore, people holding public power need to be meritorious and honest.

To make governance more meaningful, we need a law on accountability. It exists in neighbouring Pakistan. But in India, it is a stillborn child, and remains on the lips of intellectuals. Accountability is for wrongful omissions, commissions and crimes of public officials and ministers. It lies at the heart of good governance. It is the experience of the common man when he approaches a police and revenue official, or his experience in the court of law, etc, that should be used to benchmark good governance.

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