How can the Indian government be held accountable?
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When it collects and spend the Taxes and other form of revenue, it has to answerable to the citizen of indian
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the main prolem of india is corruption. There is no part in india where there is no corruption.All the money government spents for public welfare measures,almost half of it is used by these corrupted officers.government is not taking any measure to control this problem.\nsecondly,there are only few indians worried about the condition of country.i heard some people saying ,"why should we worry if any one is corrupt or not?we cannot change the india.india will drown in a few  years"if this is mentality of people,then surely india will drown.they go on blamming the goverment but do not do their duties.
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(m)\n\nPublic accountability means the obligations of persons/authorities entrusted with public resources to report on the management of such resources and be answerable for the fiscal, managerial and programme responsibilities that are conferred.\n\nGENERAL GUIDELINES\nThe following general guidelines are recommended for promoting public accountability:\n\nWith the increased pace of national development, the objectives and the norms by which programmes and investments can be evaluated should be explicit and quantified wherever possible by the planning and approving authorities to facilitate a meaningful review and analysis of their results. Development of adequate information, control, evaluation and reporting systems within the public sector will facilitate the ac countability process. \nThe regulatory or central agencies within the administration should increasingly perform supervisory and review functions and establish satisfactory performance standards and criteria for determining actual progress and productivity against predetermined objectives and tar gets. There is a need to develop cost consciousness and to inculcate greater efficiency and efficacy in the utilisation of resources. \nAs the traditional accounts still provide an important and effective means of discharging accountability, appropriate authorities in Govern ment should ensure the promulgation of generally accepted accounting standards for financial reporting and disclosure relevant to the needs of the public sector. As a corollary measure, a strict enforcement of these standards is equally necessary. \nThe existence of systems of appropriate safeguards and mechanisms for implementing prompt corrective measures would certainly assist in better discharge of accountability. The laxity in enforcing reprimands and other punitive measures for failures, abuses or malpractices will only weaken the accountability process. \nWhile the primary function of SAIs in the past has been to express an opinion and lend credibility to the financial statements of the various public sector entities subject to its audit, its role should now be more performance oriented. They should make efforts to equip themselves adequately for their expanded responsibilities and be conscious of their own accountability. \nAs a considerable proportion of expenditure on development and on investments is incurred by public authorities of one kind or another, and moneys raised to meet such demands, all these activities should be subject to audit or review by the SAIs. The acquisition and disposal of public resources and assets, and the achievement of objectives require attention. The SAIs must progressively conduct more value for money audits aimed at evaluating the performance of these entities including the efficiency and effectiveness of their programmes. \nSAIs should, where necessary, secure legal mandate enabling them to do the audit of all public enterprises. A clear and unequivocal legislative mandate outlining the powers and responsibilities of the SAI to under take performance audits in all areas of government activity should also be obtained. \nImproved utilisation of all audit resources could be achieved if SAIs worked more closely with internal audits and were to provide guidance and advice to them in the development of their activities where re quested or as necessary. \nFor audits to achieve maximum results in promoting accountability, audit reports must have relevance, receive wide publicity, be objective, responsive, current and accurate. The need for timely discussions of the reports of SAIs by parliamentary committees and remedial actions taken thereon cannot be overemphasised. The SAIs should also ensure that follow-up actions on such measures are undertaken.
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Politicians, each one of them out to carve out a vote bank of himself, are responsible for reservations in India. There is nothing wrong in empowering under privileged and socially deprived. But the way to empower them is to creat right kind of atmosphere where everyone gets equal opportunity. That's a herculean task. Easier way is to pass a legislation. That also ensures vote bank. How have Laly, Mulayam Singh and Mayavati carved out their vote Banks?
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How can someone punish the citizens in a country by denying them service because of the way their government behaves?
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It is because law enforcement departments of government of India and state governments are not doing their jobs more than 10%\n\nGovernment employees are mostly corrupt leaving a negligible minority of sincere employees... who are usually harassed\n\nRight now, every thing… law and order, public life, employment for youth, safety of oldies, honor of women, discipline, poverty, health, electric supply, economy, trade, etc is in shambles in our country\n\nIndian voters should bring decent, sincere, qualified, civilized and emotionally sensitive representatives for forming governments in the centre and states
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Necessarily u need to proceed with a lawyer to file suite on them to get stay over their proceedings and I dont think so as an Individual u can do that. \n\nInstead u can make a complaint of the same and get as much as public endorsed on that and make as many copies of that and forward the same to the concerned authorities as well as Chief minister of your state and to the prime minister, President, and to all the authorities. and never forget to give it to all the media and get published hope atleast some action will be taken .........
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I don't think we can do that. Why would you wanna talk to them? I would assume that the Indian governement is a highly bureaucratic one.
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The parliment IS the government.
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At present in Inida corrupt officials and politicians do not have any punishmen at all. they are obny happy and comfortable even when they are charged for corruption. In the case of Government servants , a corrupt officl, while under suspension  pending diciplinary action is more comforable  monetarily while under suspension than while  in service . So to eliminate corruption , rwe should have more stringent punitive laws  . The present trend is that a criminal is more comfortable than any ordinary law -abiding citizen and there are more number of organizations like the human rights commissions and other political and non-political oraniztions that take much efforts to potect the criminals and ensure their comforts and rights much more than those of the ordinary ciizens who are victims of the corrupt officials and politicians.No  body is ashamed of being charged under any penal provison for any criminal act. On the contrray ,the criminals are  happy that they get lot of publicity and support from some idiotic organizations .\nThe only way to end corruption is to elect some non- political  judges directly by the people and to create a special independent judicial forum with powers to take and try cases against any public servant and Government servant . The abolition of poticial parties and the selection of law makers , all Ministers and Governors , the Prime mimnister and the President by lots. That is the   safest and sure way of eliminating  corruption and ensuring that a  very large number of criminals do not secure nomination for election by political parties . Now under the  present system the party bosses could nominate only the best ciminal as candidate for election to public offices and keep the posts of chief Ministers and prime minister etc  for their own family and etablish their dynasties to the deteriment of  public interst .In the years to come India would witness a situaiton where the posts of chief ministers and prime minister and oher ministers would be reserved for the families of the present day political bosses and that those posts would be adorned by the children of the present day poliical bosses and their concubines . The counry will become the private property of the present day political bosses soon.\nThe only surest way to elIinate corruption is to ABOLISH ALL POLITICAl .PARTIES .AND ELEC PEOPLE TOOFFICIES BY LOT .It is mpossible to elect all rogues or fools or dishones people by such a method whee as it is only possible to get corrupt and useless pesrsons alone nominated by he party bosses under the present system. In factissaid hahe party bosses nominate only those who pay the highest amount t them. Corruption starts there itself . his is how he politicians quickly get  into the list of Billioners .
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India has ministries like the British.\n\nYou're looking for the Ministry of Environment and Forests
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It sets up a government.
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In India, laws are not enacted based on caste or religion. If anyone don't pay their debts whoever it is, whether a Harijan (Dalit) or upper caste person, law will take its own course. Only the politicians are playing vote bank politics on them. \nMy request:\nGandhi called the scheduled caste people with a better name 'Harijan' which means people of God. But these politicians have changed it into Dalits. Let us use the sacred name 'Harijan' for them.
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Both are federal states and both are republics, but in India, the president is a mere figurehead without any political power (like European monarchs). The executive branch of government in India is a cabinet led by the Prime Minister, but to govern the cabinet needs support from Parliament. While the US is a "presidential" style, the Indian system is thus a "parliamentarian" style of government. \n\nIndia has a multi-party system, while in the US, two parties are dominant (making it a 'two-party system'). The current Indian government is led by the Congress party but is dependent upon support from a range of smaller left-wing parties in parliament. The parliamentary system is fairly similar to that of the UK, the Westminster system, with two houses. In India, the lower house is elected by popular vote and this is from where the cabinet must have support. The upper house could be compared to the US Senate, with representatives from each state, but the election process is different. \n\nThe judiciary in India is independent and the Indian Supreme Court is on the one hand an arbitrer between the states, and the states versus the central government (as a constitutional court like the US Supreme Court), and also the last appellate court.
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We can have abundant power provided politician management is honest. With corrupt politicians you can never improve any thing. don't you know that the chief minister of Maharashtra suspended one electricity board engineer for cutting of his power supply for non payment of electrical bill?\nProbably that engineer will suffer for rest of his life time. \nI am very eager to hear from him or some one else as to what is his fate today?
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To Protect India from Corrupt politicians you need to do the following:\n1. All educated cast your vote ( without fail) against corrupt politicians\n2. Educate the general mass to identify corrupt politicians and vote against them\n3. Fight corruption and do not cooperate with any corrupt practise which you come in contact with.It is our own flow and contribution to corrupt practices that the politician capitalize.
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it is the rules of the government, elected officials make it.