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M.G. Devasahayam is a soldier, administrator and economist with a distinguished career spanning over several decades. He has direct and first-hand experience in the working and ethos of the Indian Army, Indian Administrative Service (IAS), public and private sector, political system as well as NGOs. He fought the India– Pakistan War of 1965, participated in the counter-insurgency operations in Nagaland (1967–68) and entered the IAS in 1968. As an IAS officer, he has held key assignments in the governments of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. He was a member of the Government of India High-Powered Committee on Agricultural Policy set up in 1990. He has worked in corporate, academic and voluntary sectors. Devasahayam is a prolific writer; he has written op-eds, articles and columns for several publications. He writes on democracy, governance, civil services, urban development, the economy, environment and politics. His books include India’s Second Freedom: An Untold Saga (2003), JP in Jail: An Uncensored Account (2006), JP Movement, Emergency and India’s Second Freedom (2011) and A Drop of Love: Memoir of Saint Teresa (2016). He has also contributed chapters in two edited volumes: Indian Democracy: Contradictions and Reconciliations (2020) and Saint Devasahayam: Sacrifice and Crown of Glory (2022). He is the editor of the book Electoral Democracy: An Inquiry into the Fairness and Integrity of Elections in India (2022). He was closely associated with Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) and St Mother Teresa.

M.G. Devasahayam

M.G. Devasahayam is a soldier, administrator and economist with a distinguished career spanning over several decades. He has direct and first-hand experience in the working and ethos of the Indian Army, Indian Administrative Service (IAS), public and private sector, political system as well as NGOs. He fought the India– Pakistan War of 1965, participated in the counter-insurgency operations in Nagaland (1967–68) and entered the IAS in 1968. As an IAS officer, he has held key assignments in the governments of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. He was a member of the Government of India High-Powered Committee on Agricultural Policy set up in 1990. He has worked in corporate, academic and voluntary sectors. Devasahayam is a prolific writer; he has written op-eds, articles and columns for several publications. He writes on democracy, governance, civil services, urban development, the economy, environment and politics. His books include India’s Second Freedom: An Untold Saga (2003), JP in Jail: An Uncensored Account (2006), JP Movement, Emergency and India’s Second Freedom (2011) and A Drop of Love: Memoir of Saint Teresa (2016). He has also contributed chapters in two edited volumes: Indian Democracy: Contradictions and Reconciliations (2020) and Saint Devasahayam: Sacrifice and Crown of Glory (2022). He is the editor of the book Electoral Democracy: An Inquiry into the Fairness and Integrity of Elections in India (2022). He was closely associated with Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) and St Mother Teresa.

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Arc Of Governance
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Arc of Governance

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Governance is a 360-degree process; this book is an arc. “New India” dawned on 26 May 2014 when the Union government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi was sworn in by the president of the Republic of India. Its governance agenda was unveiled by the president in Parliament on 9 June 2014 with this stentorian statement: “My government is dedicated to the poor…. With a firm belief that the first claim on development belongs to the poor, my government pledges itself to the principle of sabke saath, sabka vikas…. My government will function on the mantra of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’, and we will work together to re-establish the credibility of the institutions of democracy.”

 

The government got a second mandate in 2019. This book, which is a compilation of the author’s articles and papers, will take the reader through different dimensions of governance, government, institutions, democracy and development critically, analysing the flavour of New India in them.

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