Good governance is the key to a stable and prosperous civil society. The 8 key attributes of good governance include being participatory, consensus-driven, accountable, transparent, responsive, effective, efficient, equitable, and inclusive while adhering to the rule of law. This framework ensures the absence of corruption and the inclusion of the all-important minority and disadvantaged voices. Some features of good governance include the availability of education that can guarantee employment, infrastructure development, ensuring the safety of public life and property, reducing inequalities, having citizen-centric services, enlarging the sphere of freedom of speech and expression, religion and employment, and much more. The stakeholders of good governance include three groups of people; the state, the civil society, and the market. Given enhancing the accountability of the government, Good Governance Day began being observed in 2014 onwards, every year on December 25th, which is the birth anniversary of Late PM Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Goa ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively in the Good Governance Index 2021. Some policies launched by The Government of India to enhance good governance include Right To Information, MCA 21, and the Umang app. Good governance is majorly needed to ensure social and political justice. Some challenges to good governance include corruption and nepotism, criminalization of politics, low levels of awareness of rights and duties of citizens, lack of accountability, red tapism, and ineffective implementation of laws. The key to improving governance is to improve the implementation of its attributes.
SOURCE: Dr Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute of Telangana
