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Report of the Expert Group on Low Carbon Strategies for Inclusive Growth
Summary :The Planning Commission set up an Expert Group, ahead of the Twelfth Five Year Plan, to advise and help evolve low carbon strategies for inclusive growth. In May 2011, the Expert Group submitted its Interim Report. The Final Report builds on, and takes further forward, the growth policy outlined in the Twelfth Five Year Plan, namely of faster, more inclusive and sustainable growth.
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Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty
Summary :In June 2012, the Planning Commission constituted an Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan to review the methodology for Measurement of Poverty. On June 30th 2014, Dr. C. Rangarajan, Chairman of the Expert Group has submitted the Report.
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Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Policy and Planning
Summary :This report is prepared by Development Alternatives with the support by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The objective of the action oriented project was to enhance the adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities in Bundelkhand region, identify strategies for climate resilient development and mainstream climate change in development policy and plans.
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Towards Holistic Panchayat Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar Committee Report, Vol II
Summary :During the Twentieth Anniversary Year of Constitutional Panchayat Raj, the Government of India in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj constituted an Expert Committee, with Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP (Rajya Sabha) and former Union Minister for Panchayati Raj (2004-09) as Chairman to examine how Panchayat Raj Institutions might be leveraged to secure the more efficient delivery of public goods and services.
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Towards Holistic Panchayat Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar Committee Report, Volume I
Summary :During the Twentieth Anniversary Year of Constitutional Panchayat Raj, the Government of India in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj constituted an Expert Committee, with Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP (Rajya Sabha) and former Union Minister for Panchayati Raj (2004-09) as Chairman to examine how Panchayat Raj Institutions might be leveraged to secure the more efficient delivery of public goods and services.
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Mainstreaming of Resource Convergence in Policymaking, Programme Design and Execution
Summary :The Report illustrates how convergence across sectors can be used to enhance qualitative and sustainable outcomes for development. And it also assesses convergence initiatives underway in six states which reveal significant scope to achieve superior results.
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Citizens’ Report on Governance and Development, 2013
Summary :The Citizens’ Report on Governance and Development – unique to the Indian political landscape - the Report touches every aspect of governance and development in the country. The Report brings out the issues and challenges in governance and development for wider discussion and corrective action.
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Report of the Team for the Study of Community Development Projects and National Extension Service - The Balvantray G. Mehta Committee
Summary :The Balvantray G. Mehta Committee examined the working of the Community Development Programme (1952) and the National Extension Service (1953) and recommended the establishment of the scheme of Democratic Decentralization which finally came to be known as Panchayati Raj.
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Second Administrative Reforms Commission, 2008 (Hindi)
Summary :In second Administrative Reforms commission report on Local Governance, the Administrative Reforms Commission has examined in detail the issues relating to rural and urban local governance in India with a special focus on the need for real democratic decentralization in the country in order to usher in genuine grass roots democracy as envisaged by the founding fathers of our republic and as now specifically mandated by our Constitution.
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Second Administrative Reforms Commission, 2008 (English)
Summary :In second Administrative Reforms commission report on Local Governance, the Administrative Reforms Commission has examined in detail the issues relating to rural and urban local governance in India with a special focus on the need for real democratic decentralization in the country in order to usher in genuine grass roots democracy as envisaged by the founding fathers of our republic and as now specifically mandated by our Constitution.
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