With direct benefits transfer’s (DBT) popularity in India, here’s next steps to design an upgraded form - DBT 2.0 - where its full potential is realized.
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The Changing Nature of a Civil Servant's Job
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
A Systems Approach to Urban Development
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
How Mental Models Add Value to Civil Servants’ Experiences
How organizing experiences on a network of mental models empowers civil servants to accurately grasp reality and make predictions, thus ensuring better policy design and more effective implementation.
Bespoke Learning: Using AI to Upscale Quality Education
How digital technology buttressed by AI has the potential to empower teachers to deliver state-of-the-art individualized learning to students.
SHGs: Bridging Social Capital for Livelihood Improvement
Strategic approaches to bridge social capital to enable India’s self-help groups (SHGs) to improve lives for income enhancement opportunities.
Why Decision Paralysis Happens in the Civil Services
How the mismatch between operating methods and historic hierarchical structures fails to bring together diverse approaches to decision-making.
Getting a Grip on Traffic Congestion in Indian Cities
Historical and contemporary views and solutions on managing traffic congestions in India.
Promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Police Work
Exploring how AI-driven policing holds significant potential for enhancing law enforcement in India, particularly in crime prevention.
Carrying Out “Democratic Administration” Using AI
How the AI-driven third wave in India would be a radical revision to our standard assumptions not just about how democracy works but about what democracy even is.
Converting Political Interference to Engagement
'Smart' politics’ means blending administrative ideas with politics. A look at how civil and public officials can work with political leaders, combine sound administrative practices and procedures with development agendas, and deliver on goals.
The Potential of Using AI in Government
A look at use cases of utilizing generative AI (artificial intelligence) in public administration activities.
Civil Servants: Prioritizing the Urgent from the Important
Looking at how working on important matters instead of urgent ones constantly adds real value and meaning of a civil servants’ work.
How to Renew Indian Penal Codes
Renewing Indian penal codes would eliminate the perceived injustice arising from the imbalance where a party with greater resources is better equipped to collect evidence and present a more robust case than the opposing side.
How Can Civil Servants Repeatedly Make Good Decisions?
How the identity of a civil servant is intricately connected with their professional experiences and the decisions they make.
What's Happening to Indian Cities?
As a city planner, I often get asked about the happenings in our cities. Here's a simplified explanation of my responses.
What is the Colonial Baggage in the Civil Services?
Colonialism continues to shape the workings of the civil services in India. This article explores the origins of the source of such colonial influences.
What Determines Officers’ Postings?
What do the political executives look for when they post civil servants, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in particular.
How To Cope With Transfers
Sharing key insights for civil servants to build their capacity to handle transfers, especially surprise ones. These focus on the ability to respond to transfers in ways that lead to growth, rather than merge with the pain of transfer.
Is Oligopoly Always Bad?
A dual outlook on governance and policy-making while making a case for high level of economic growth possibilities even in oligopolistic markets.