Banking Sector Schemes Lead Bank Scheme  The Lead Bank Scheme was introduced by the Reserve Bank of India in December 1969. In this scheme, under area approach, every bank discharges their social responsibilities. Each bank concentrates on certain districts where it acts as a lead bank. The Scheme aims at coordinating the activities of banks and other developmental agencies to avoid du...

Important dimensions of Governance Many theorists defined the notion of governance of current years. It is explained by group of academicians that "Public sector governance refers to the way that the state acquires and exercises the authority to provide and manage public goods and services, including both public capacities and public accountabilities (Levy, 2007). UNDP Strategy Note on Go...

Theories of Governance: Although interest in governance in the early 21st century owes much to public-sector reforms that began in the 1980s, these reforms and the interest they inspired cannot be easily separated from theories such as rational choice and the new institutionalism. It is important to recognize that the meaning of governance varies according to not only the level of generality a...

Classification of historic periods History can be classified in three- pre history, proto history, and history 1 Pre historic period:            The term prehistory is referred to the time period before the era of recorded history. The era of beginning of the universe and when there was the beginning of life on earth is described as prehistoric...

Consequences of Ethics The consequences are the effects caused by an action and the quality of these consequences depend on how much good they contain. Motives are the causes and the consequences are the effect. The consequences are defined by various theories, one such is utilitarianism. Utilitarianism evaluates consequences by how much happiness and suffering they contain. The consequence tha...

HISTORICAL EVOLUTION, MAKING AND FEATURES OF CONSTITUTION HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS The commercial contacts between India and Europe were very old via the land route either through the Oxus Valley or Syria or Egypt. But the new route via the cape of good hope was discovered by Vasco-Da-Gama in 1498. Therefore, many trading companies came to India and established their trading center in...

Types of Ethics Behavioral Ethics Behavioral ethics is the study of why people make the ethical and unethical decisions that they do. Its teachings arise from research in fields such as behavioral psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. Behavioral ethics is different from traditional philosophy. Instead of focusing on how people ought to behave, behavioral ethics studies...

Participatory Governance In India India has had a long history of local governance.  The concept of village as a self sufficient unit and existence of Panchayats at village level have existed since ancient times.  Panchayats were institutions of local people for governance and resolutions of disputes at local level. In the modern India, the concept of participatory development had...

Features Of Participatory Governance 1. Participatory Budgeting Participatory budgeting is a process of democratic deliberation and decision making, in which ordinary residents of a village or city decide how the allocate part of a panchayat or municipal or public budget.  Participatory budgeting is usually characterized by several basic design features, such as: identification of spen...

POLITY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science is the study of Various theory about the evolution of state, about the System of Government and governance, how it works and so on. While Polity is the prototype or a model of Government that is the whole political system in practice. In other words polity Indicates the type of Administration and constitutional machinary in force: Indian polity...