The March Rush, and Why It Happens
Chapter 24 · Utilisation of Public Funds · Part 2 The single largest source of avoidable waste in Indian public expenditure is not corruption. It is the calendar. Chapter 24 · Utilisation of Public...
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The Principles of Using Public Money
Chapter 24 · Utilisation of Public Funds · Part 1 Public money is not the government’s money. Every principle in this chapter follows from that one sentence, and an answer that starts there writes...
Building Accountability, and a Hospital Before an Election
Chapter 23 · Accountability · Part 4 What an officer can build inside his own charge, and a case in which a delayed hospital collides with an approaching election. Chapter 23 · AccountabilityPart 1...
The Indian Accountability Institutions
Chapter 23 · Accountability · Part 3 The institutions India has built for accountability, what each does well, and the structural limitation each carries. Chapter 23 · AccountabilityPart 1 · What Accountability RequiresPart 2...
Vertical and Horizontal Accountability
Chapter 23 · Accountability · Part 2 Accountability runs in two directions: outward to citizens, and sideways between institutions. Each catches what the other misses, and each fails in its own characteristic way. Chapter...
What Accountability Actually Requires
Chapter 23 · Accountability · Part 1 Accountability is not the same as blame, and not the same as scrutiny. It has four components, and an arrangement missing any one of them will not...
Transparency Mechanisms, and a PIO Under Pressure
Chapter 22 · Information Sharing and Transparency · Part 4 The full machinery of information sharing beyond RTI, and a case in which a Public Information Officer is pressed to suppress what the file...
Ethical and Unethical Use of the Right to Information
Chapter 22 · Information Sharing and Transparency · Part 3 A right that empowers can also be weaponised. Distinguishing legitimate use from misuse, without letting the fear of misuse become an excuse for refusal....
The RTI Act, Explained
Chapter 22 · Information Sharing and Transparency · Part 2 The architecture of the Right to Information Act, 2005: what it grants, how it works, where it stops, and why each design choice was...
Why Information Sharing Matters
Chapter 22 · Information Sharing and Transparency · Part 1 Information is the raw material of accountability. Without it, every other mechanism in this Part of the syllabus is inspection with the lights off....
