#5: It is time to Revise!
Summary of New India @75 ; How to study thinkers?
Blink.
And the week seems to have whizzed past us.
Actually, a whole month has gone after we started posting regularly on this blog. Writing has forced me to do a lot of reading. In doing so, I tend to follow my curiosity and interweave it with my interest in Public Administration.
One such exploration made me arrive at the New India @ 75 report. Below are the chapters that were covered this week.
A friend of mine from Assam had once mentioned to me that the rest of the country is hardly aware of the culture, traditions and lifestyle of the people living in the northeast. He was glad that at least due to the UPSC exam, a large section of students gets to learn about the region.
I felt the same way while reading the chapter on the North East Region. It throws light on the developmental challenges and potential opportunities that exist in the northeast region of India. I never knew that Sikkim had the highest per capita net state domestic product among all the eight sister states.
In a contrast to my ignorance of the happenings in the northeast, I happen to be glued to various news articles about events in the rest of the country. Reading about the pending 4 cr judicial cases or the rise in fake encounters makes me wonder about the possibility of judicial, legal and police reforms in our nation.
As it is often said, the solution to bad bureaucracy is better bureaucracy. It is practically impossible to eliminate the existing bureaucratic system in India. It may not be even necessary to do so. Civil service reforms are the need of the hour. From lateral entry to the launch of Mission Karmyayogi, there is hope that India is on the cusp of witnessing a revolution in governance practices. Only the time and the political will of the elected representatives will have the answers to such a prediction.
Finally, we learnt about the role of data in policy making. Data is the new oil that runs the world in the era of the fourth Industrial revolution. The Economic Survey 2021-22 also mentions the strategic shift analysis toward an Agile model that relies on High-Frequency Indicators(HFIs). These HFIs can help to get a faster understanding of the status of the economy on a real-time basis.
One example of an HFI is the e-way bills. An e-way bill is generated every time goods have to be transported between two places in the country for the purpose of trade. Therefore a rise in the number of e-way bills indicates increasing economic activity.
While the e-way bill is a proxy indicator that cannot give a complete picture, when coupled with other HFIs, it enables to complete the jigsaw puzzle of the health of the economy
The last post of the previous week was a ten min audio recording expanding on the approach towards studying thinkers in public administration. If you have just started your preparation, you will definitely find it to be helpful.
That is a windup for this week folks!
In case you missed the previous week’s revisions, you can check them below:
Coming week’s posts
The Need for AIJS - Monday
The Tussle between GST Council and Indian Federalism - Tuesday
Relationship between PMO and CoM - Wednesday
CA pub ad link - Thursday
Podcast - Friday
Revision - Saturday