Page 6 - Governance

While politicians can lose their jobs, no other public servant can

What is it about our structure of governance that impedes governments?

The path to herd mortality

The pandemic has changed the way people look at the government, says Devangshu Datta

Massive overhaul

Cabinet reshuffle signals govt's willingness to improve performance

India Inc fares well on environmental, social and governance disclosures

Parameters where India scored high included policy on equal voting rights (100 per cent), policy on community involvement (99 per cent), and CSR sustainability reporting (98 per cent)

Amidst pandemic, technology ensured uninterrupted governance: Ajay Sawhney

Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, said on Friday that Indian IT industry showcased its best potential and offered highly innovative solutions to ensure the continuation of governance with utmost efficiency during these highly unprecedented times.Addressing a webinar organized by the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), Sawhney said, "Indian IT Industry has rapidly adjusted to the new environment and added that the Aarogya Setu has reinvented itself as Vaccine Passport and has the possibility to leverage wide reach to bring more health services and to become a citizen-facing front-end as National Digital Health Mission develops."Sawhney said there was a pressing need to step up manufacturing of both software and hardware products in order to reduce dependence on imports from different countries. "Entrepreneurs and companies need to move aggressively in this area. The National Policy on Software Products has ...

The bureaucracy has devised its own way of decision-making in uncertainty

It has always been slow and often erratic, but now issues of personal loyalty to political bosses have also begun to deface it.

The credibility problem of governments

Many govts think they can recover from serious reverses. In fact, however, they almost never do. In such situations, the most important national task becomes to restore their credibility and authority

Higher tech investment in realty will lead to better governance: Parekh

Investment in property technology, including digital backbone, should increase efficiency through real-time monitoring of real estate projects

Raising learning outcomes in backward areas linked to improving governance

KEF is working with the state and district officials to resolve many archaic, pre-colonial rules and procedures

The trust deficit

Transparency and consultation are vital to governance

Cholamandalam Investment MD Arun Alagappan quits, to step down on Feb 14

Will assume larger responsibilities within the Group, say Sources

Exit was outcome of being truthful and ethical: Dhanalaxmi Bank's Gurbaxani

In a Q&A the lender's MD and CEO dwells on the drama surrounding his ouster at the AGM and how the directors pressurised him to quit after he raised various Governance issues

MyGov to focus on having more state chapters, campus ambassadors: CEO

The platform, launched in July 2014, has 13 million users who contribute their ideas through discussions

Banks' chief compliance officers to report to CEO, board committee: RBI

The new norm is at variance with what was suggested in the discussion paper on governance in commercial banks released by RBI in June 2020

Govt invites suggestions on non-personal data framework by July 19

The committee has made a case for regulating non-personal data, defining it under three main categories- public non-personal data, community non-personal data and private non-personal data

Letter to BS: Radical reforms are being conveniently ignored by govt

Incremental and half-baked reforms are being introduced here and there

AAP, BJP trade barbs over governance, toll figures as pandemic spreads

The Covid-19 crisis, however, has provided the BJP with an opportunity to strike the ruling party where it hurts the most: Its governance record

Indian corporates need to follow global standards of governance: K M Birla

Birla said there were various sectors in India which had the potential to grow into billion dollar business over a period of time

The coat needs alterations

We Indians came to look upon Britain's system as a model of good governance

Agents of change

As custodians of corp governance, institutional nominees and independent directors can be watchdogs