GS Mains Model Question & Answer: Highlight the significance of Good Governance. Comment

 GS Mains Model Question & Answer: Highlight the significance of Good Governance. Comment


Q. Highlight the significance of Good Governance. Comment

Model Answer:

Highlight the significance of Good Governance.

Ans. Good governance aims at achieving much more than efficient management of economic and financial resources or public services. It is a broad reform strategy to make government more open, responsive, accountable, democratic, as well as strengthen institutions of civil society and regulate private sector. Good Governance is a combination of efficiency concerns of public management and accountability concerns of governance. Good Governance as a prerequisite for promoting people centred development is assuming importance.

Good Governance aims at :

  • Improving the quality of life of citizens
  • Enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of administration
  • Establishing the legitimacy and credibility of institutions
  • Securing freedom of information and expression
  • Providing citizen-friendly and citizen-caring administration
  • Ensuring accountability
  • Using Information Technology-based services to improve citizen-government interface
  • Improving/enhancing the productivity of employees; and
  • Promoting organisational pluralism-State, market and civil society organisations for governance.

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