This volume explores the nature, success, and challenges of governance innovations in South Asia. It compares innovations and reforms that have been undertaken specifically in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
This volume explores the nature, success, and challenges of governance innovations in South Asia. It compares innovations and reforms that have been undertaken specifically in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It examines how these South Asian nations have fared in promoting the values of good governance both at the national and local levels.
The volume focuses mainly on three themesinnovations and reforms in public administration, e-governance and public service delivery, and innovations in local governance. It assesses how South Asian countries have sought to mitigate the challenges of governance and overcome the obstacles that characterized the transition from the old, traditional architecture of governance to the new and modern technologically enabled models of governance.
Lucid and topical, this book will be of great interest to scholars of politics, public administration and governance, public policy, public management, international relations, development studies, and related social science disciplines.
List of Figures vii List of Tables viii List of Contributors ix Foreword
xi Acknowledgments xviii List of Abbreviations xx 1 Exploring Innovations in
Governance: The South Asian Experience 1 SANGITA DHAL, NACHIKETA SINGH AND
AMIR MOHAMMAD NASRULLAH 2 Capacity Building through Governance Innovations:
States Pursuit for Human Security in South Asia 23 RUMKI BASU 3 Innovations
in Government Procurement: Policy Initiatives in India 42 SACHIN CHOWDHRY 4
Innovations in Bangladesh Public Administration: Current Initiatives and
Challenges 65 AMIR MOHAMMAD NASRULLAH 5 Understanding Union Digital Centre
(UDC) and Its Impact on Service Delivery at Local Level: Case of a Successful
e-Governance Model in Bangladesh 90 HAROLD SOUGATO BAROI AND PRANAB KUMAR
PANDAY 6 NGOs Efforts to Implement Good Governance at the Local Level in
Bangladesh: A Comparison of Two Partnership Models 112 MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR
HOSSAIN MOJUMDER 7 National ICT Policy in Bangladesh: Issues of Social Equity
and Universal Access 133 SADIK HASAN 8 Governance Innovation in South Asia:
The Pakistan Governance Journey 147 AMIR JAHANGIR 9 The Nepali Path to
Federalism: Making Good Governance in Nepals Federal Structure 167 GANGA
BAHADUR THAPA, JOEL R. CAMPBELL, AND JAN SHARMA 10 Open Government in Federal
Nepal: Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities 188 NARENDRA RAJ PAUDEL AND
SRIJANA PAHARI 11 Constitutional Amendments, Institutional Tensions (Crisis),
and Governance Quality in Sri Lanka 210 RAMESH RAMASAMY 12 Centralized
Pandemic Governance in Sri Lanka 231 MALINI BALAMAYURAN 13 Local Innovation
in Sustainable Development: A Story of Lhomon Society, Samdrup Jongkhar,
Bhutan 249 SONAM CHUKI 14 South Asias Tryst with Innovations in Governance
265 AMIR MOHAMMAD NASRULLAH, SANGITA DHAL AND NACHIKETA SINGH Index 277
Sangita Dhal, Professor of Political Science, Kalindi College, University of Delhi, India.
Nachiketa Singh, Professor of Political Science, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi, India.
Amir Mohammad Nasrullah, Professor of Public Administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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