Do you agree that the existing institutional structure in India have not led to good governance outcome? Give reasons in support of your answer.

Yes we agree.

(a) A majority of the people – the poor and the illiterate – is unaware of its entitlements. Women, even the educated ones, fare no better.

(b) Elections continue to be driven by influence of money and muscle power and corruption, thereby preventing a real competition for political power. About 25 per cent the members of the 15th Lok Sabha and about 10 per cent of the present Rajya Sabha are industrialists, businesspersons, traders and builders.

(c) The implementation of development schemes of the Five Year Plans, especially those meant for the weaker sections of society, is lax and benefits hardly flow to the target groups. And corruption adds to the problem.

(d) The Information Commission and its counterparts in the States have shown some success but the success of the commissions is limited to the highly literate.

(e) Corruption is the way of life in India. The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) study of 1999 covering 210 private contractors found 60 per cent of them confirming the price payable to secure a government contract as 2 to 25 per cent of the contract value. Another CMS study also found that a majority of the citizens is not satisfied with the delivery of public services, that there is hardly any effective complaint redress system in most deptts., that staff behaviour is a matter of concern and that most are not tuned into the changing expectations of citizens.

(f) The judiciary is over-burdened with the more than 4 crores cases pending in the courts and this has resulted in miscarriage of justice in many instances. Access to the courts remains difficult, time-consuming and expensive.

Yes, I think that existing institutional structure towards good governance is merely symbolic thread.

(a) The influence of money and muscle power and corruption continue to dominate elections.

(b) There are worrying trends in Parliamentary processes like loss of time in the sittings of Parliament due to disruption of its proceedings, participation of MPs in its work and the declining time devoted to legislative matters.

(c) The judiciary is over-burdened, leading to miscarriage of justice in many instances. Access to courts is difficult (and oddly enough, now even for PLIs), time-consuming and expensive, scaring away the poor and the not so well off from them. The image of the judiciary is also somewhat tarnished, with the number of cases of alleged corruption against judges increasing. Efforts to set-up a high level, independent, strong, effective and credible anti-corruption watchdog, in the context of the failure of existing mechanisms to curb corruption in public life, have not borne fruit so far.

(d) The benefits of development schemes, especially those for the weaker sections of society, hardly flow to the target groups. Corruption continues unabated despite institutional mechanisms in place to check it.

(e) The success of the RTI Act is limited to the highly literate.

(f) Sections of the media are entangled in the vice of paid news.

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