Urban India today needs a renewed social contract, one that prioritises reliability, transparency, and responsiveness, and aligns governance structures with everyday needs.
Launched in 2015, Act mandates govt depts provide public services in timely manner. But some depts are yet to notify services. Only notified services are covered by the law.
IAS officer Hari Chandana Dasari is leading a ‘green’ movement in Hyderabad, while Sikkim commissioner Raj Kumar Yadav ensures supply of power & water to villages.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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