Citizens' report on governance and development 2007/
Social Watch Organization
- Los Angeles: SAGE, 2007.
- 182 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- The Indian Parliament and the Grammar of Anarchy -- Deepening Disparities and Divides: Whose Growth is it Anyway? -- Access to Justice: State of Indian Judiciary -- Local Governance: Hopes, Promises and Performance -- Looking Ahead -- 1. THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT AND THE 8216;GRAMMAR OF ANARCHY -- Introduction -- Institutional Dimension -- Inside the Parliament -- The Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 20068212; Recognising Historical Injustice -- Whose Questions, Whose Answers -- Parliamentary Protocol -- Office of Profit -- Cash for Questions -- Operation Chakravyuh -- Criminalisation of Politics -- Conclusion -- 2. DEEPENING DISPARITIES AND DIVIDES: WHOSE GROWTH IS IT ANYWAY? -- Uneven Impact of Growth -- Policy or Absence of Strategic Goal -- Employment8212;How Inclusive is the Growth? -- Trends in Employment -- Agricultural Marketing Reform and Commodity Futures Market: The Growth Strategy of Indian Agriculture -- Performance of Indian Agriculture -- Health Inequities in India8212;Are We Closing the Gap -- Health Status -- Right to Information Act8212;Has It Worked? -- Reforms and Regional Development: The Changing Nature of Centre8211;State Fiscal Relations -- The SEZ Policy: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward -- Civil Society, Private Business and Government8212;The New 8216;Mantra -- 3. ACCESS TO JUSTICE: STATE OF INDIAN JUDICIARY -- I. Mapping Judicial Response through Court Verdicts -- Civil Rights, Political Accountability and the Courts -- Rights of Children of Women Prisoners: SC Urges8212;8216;Revamp Jail Manuals, Pass Necessary Legislations -- Custodial Torture of a Tribal: Indictment of Police Authorities and Award of Compensation -- Preventive Arrest: Balancing National Security with Individual Freedom -- Direct Prosecution of Public Servants, Including Ministers -- Education and Establishing Educational Institutions: Scope of Fundamental Rights -- Gram Panchayats and Functionaries Appointed by Government -- Labour Rights -- Social-Economic Rights and the Courts -- No Constitutional Guarantee of Employment -- 8216;Foundational Value of All Fundamental Rights Asserted -- Socialism a 8216;Basic Feature, Privatisation in Policy Domain!: Supreme Court -- No Preferential Public Employment for the Displaced -- Legality of SHGs Involvement in ICDS Upheld -- The Mumbai High Court Judgement on Farmers Suicides: Some Open Questions -- Environment, Development and the Courts -- Aravalli Hills Case: Court-appointed Committees at the 8216;Business-end -- Reconciling Competing Claims of Protecting Tanks and Housing -- The Supreme Court Explains the 8216;Public Trust Doctrine Further -- A Decision in Compromising Context: The DDA Case from Delhi -- Womens Right to Forest Produce: Madras High Court -- Enforcing Water Supply in a City: Kerala High Court -- II. The State of the Judical System -- Specific Issues on Judicial Accountability -- National Judicial Council on the Anvil -- Judicial Corruption and Whistleblower Policy -- Dealing with Abuse of PILs -- Arrears, Delay and Dealing with Them -- Alternatives to Court Adjudication -- Status of Fast Track Courts -- Justice for All and the Need for 8216;Demand Orientation -- Gram Nyayalayas.
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