Meeta Rajivlochan writes in this Hindustan Times article: "the key to the success of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is building trust in the willingness of the town councils to deliver sanitation services, especially in poorer areas. This was the finding of a survey done recently of e...
Recent developments in Kharghar in Maharashtra display the unintended outcomes of a complex governance system for rural-urban and local-state governance authorities.
India has a three-tier governance system - central, state and local. If a settlement is governe...
In this Mint article, the author states some fascinating figures about India's factory jobs. He writes "Just five states—Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka—account for 56% of factory jobs in the country. The share of the top five states has not changed much ...
The 2014-15 Maharashtra Economic Survey has corroborated the economic importance of cities again. The publication says:
"The major contributors to the State Income are Mumbai (22.1 per cent), Thane (13.3 per cent) and Pune (11.4 per cent). These districts together contribute 46.8...
