Evaluate the impact of the ‘Digital India’ initiative on the governance and administrative processes in the country.
Aims of Public Sector Reforms - - 1. Efficiency Improvement: - Organize the PSUs for efficiency in terms of operations and reduce their costs through restructuring; and undertake other measures in line with better traditional management techniques. 2. Fiscal Discipline: - Minimize the subsidies provRead more
Aims of Public Sector Reforms – –
1. Efficiency Improvement: –
Organize the PSUs for efficiency in terms of operations and reduce their costs through restructuring; and undertake other measures in line with better traditional management techniques.
2. Fiscal Discipline: –
Minimize the subsidies provided to the government because the effort turns into losses and is expensive.
3. Privatization and Disinvestment:
– De-list non-strategic PSUs to withdraw government stake and attract private party stake.
4. Core Activities: Better stick to the core competencies and maintain control over them only in defense and atomic energy, while other sectors could be market driven.
5. Corporate Governance: Bring innovative working models of organizational transparency and accountability to the table in relation to decisions and finances.
Key Outcomes of Reforms
1. Privatization:
A case in point is the sale of a carrier such as Air India: it has become a breakthrough in minimizing the role of government.
2. Increased Revenue:
Disinvtment has relieved these fiscals strains due to the revenues realized from it .
3. Operational Improvements:
Some PSUs in the energy and finance sectors have benefitted from the improvement of corporate governance practices. 4. Market Orientation:
Recent changes have enabled PSUs to co-compete with the private sector to transform models that are innovative and customer oriented. Challenges in Implementation
1. Political Resistance:
This is because, privatization and restructuring activities are usually faced with great resistance from the labour unions and other political players.
2. Valuation Issues:
Drawing proper value for PSUs remains problematic common problems relate to concerns of undervaluation during disinvestment.
3. Lack of Strategic Buyers:
Delaying disinvestment process Private entities’ lack of interest in buying loss-making PSU provides a key reason because of the restrictions in purchasing the company’s stakes.
4. Legacy Problems:
The structural problem include excessive human resources and obsolete technologies therefore reforms are expensive and take ages.
5. Accountability Gaps:
However, difficulties such as corruption and management inefficiency are still can be observed in some operates of enterprises.
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Digital India was launched in 2015 as a flagship programme of India that aims at transforming the country into digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy. Finally, through the technological advancement, it has turned governance and the administrative process into open or transparent, effectRead more
Digital India was launched in 2015 as a flagship programme of India that aims at transforming the country into digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy. Finally, through the technological advancement, it has turned governance and the administrative process into open or transparent, effective, and even effective processes of inclusion.
Positive Impacts
1. Improved Service Delivery
Through UMANG and DigiLocker, they have enabled the people to get licenses certificates, and other related services like tax filings.
2. Transparency and Accountability:
Technologically aided systems like PMMS and Digital payment systems help in less corruption in transfer of schemes like PM Kisan and MGNREGA as they work on DBT module.
3. Enhanced Administrative Efficiency:
These e-Office initiatives facilitate the procedure and, ultimately, supress the amount of work done on paper and consequent delay in the functioning of the government departments.
They identified that automation and usage of the data assist in decision-making.
4. Financial Inclusion:
The JAM trinity: Jan Dhan account, Aadhaar and mobile expands banking access to farming efficiency; enhancing rural economy.
5. Empowerment of Citizens:
Under PMGDISHA digital literacy programs allow the rural based population to engage fully in the governance process.
Mobile applications have a feature that provides instant grievance redressal.
6. Smart Cities and Urban Governance:
Technologic urban planning and resource management help to create better living conditions in a city.
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