Autorentext

Pushpinder Puniha, Chairman of the Tax Policy Consultative Group at NITI Aayog, has over three decades of experience as a public finance policy administrator, analyst, and articulator. He pioneered India's faceless tax system and holds a PhD from USC, Los Angeles, with research spanning collaborative governance, development finance, and women's economic empowerment.

Aarushi Jain is Policy Director at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB, and a Harvard Kennedy School graduate, where she was an Edward S. Mason Fellow and John F. Kennedy Scholar. With over two decades of experience, she has led transformative work in governance, digital policy, and public leadership. She is the series editor of the ISB-Routledge Public Policy book series.

Klappentext

This book unpacks the complexities of social development in India, focusing on the institutional bottlenecks that hinder effective policy implementation.

Inhalt

1. Institutions as Drivers of Social Transformation 2. Demographic Changes in India: Key Challenges and Opportunities 3. Sustainable Futures: Institutional Frameworks for Rural Transformation in India 4. Precarious Mobilities: Institutional Challenges in Foregrounding Welfare of Labour Migrant in India 5. Social Development in India: Institutional Challenges and Path Ahead 6. Performance of Provinces and Programmes in Human Development: Lessons for Decentralized Community Action 7. Panchayati Raj in Kerala: Musings of A Participant Observer 8. Self Help Group: A Collaborative Governance Perspective of 'Kudumbashree' 9. The District Collector: The 'Superman' of Indian Administration| Institutional strategies for effective public service delivery 10. Measuring Bureaucratic Career in India: Problems and Prospects 11. Sakhi, One-Stop Centre: A Critical Analysis on Barriers and Effectiveness 12. Sustainable Agriculture: Lessons from Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana 13. ITC e-Choupal: A Case study on Role of Institution Development and Community Processes in Raising Rural Incomes through Sustainable Agriculture 14. Institutional aspects of education monitoring and the case for community monitoring 15. Institutional Framework for Integration of Skills in education 16. Meghalaya's State Capability-Building Approach to address Human Development Challenges 17. Smart Human Resource Management Strategies for Better Programme Outcomes: A Case Study of State Rural Livelihoods Missions