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P J awaharlal
Nehru, the first Prime
Minister of India, in
his famous Tryst with
Destiny speech of 15 th August
1947 succinctly put the task before
in a variety of ways and that covers a
large number of organizations both
in public and private domains.
For our purposes, however,
we are confining governance
people’s representatives and the only to public domain. We are
services in the following words; concerned here with that form
“….. to fight and end poverty and of governance which serves the
ignorance and disease; to build citizens by safeguarding territorial
up a prosperous, democratic and integrity of the State and securing
progressive nation, and to create individual security, rule of law and
The need is to social, economic and political the delivery of services ranging
institutions which will ensure from education, health to livelihood
go for ‘million justice and fullness of life to every and food security.
negotiations’ that man and woman.” These works are Context
still in progress. A deeper look at
would ensure that these tasks would clearly establish No theory of governance would
that these goals are entirely within be intelligible unless it is seen
government, market the realm of governance. in the context of its time. In the
beginning of the 21st century, it has
and civil society Meaning
become evident that those who want
There is no accepted definition minimal government are having an
work together for of governance. There is divergence upper hand against the advocates of
the poor of opinion about the meaning the paternalist welfare state.
of governance between the
An efficient, effective and
conservatives and the liberals,
democratic government is the best
between socialists and the
guarantor of social justice as well
communists.
as an orderly society. Similarly,
In recent years the word there is also emphasis on the fact
governance has become a very that the administrative system has
The author is governor of sikkim and a distinguished scholar, thinker and public servant. He has been Ambassador and
Executive Director, World Bank (1999-2002).