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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born on 25th December, 1924 in the erstwhile princely state of Gwalior (now a part of Madhya Pradesh). He entered in national politics during the Quit India Movement of 1942 which hastened the end of British colonial rule.
In 1947, Vajpayee started working as a journalist for newspapers of Deendayal Upadhyaya - Rashtradharma (a Hindi monthly), Panchjanya (a Hindi weekly) and the dailies Swadesh and Veer Arjun. Later, influenced by Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Vajpayee joined the Bharatiya Jana Sanga in 1951.
He was the former Prime Minister of India and was elected to the position twice in 1996 and 1999.
As a parliamentarian, Vajpayee was awarded with the Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award for Best Parliamentarian in 1994, which defines him as "a role model par excellence for all legislators.
He was conferred with the country's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 2015 and second-highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan in 1994.
Why India observe good governance day? On the birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE GOVERNMENT, WE NEED GOVERNANCE" , AND "WE DO NOT WANT MERE GOVERNANCE , WE WANT GOOD GOVERNANCE"
On December 23, 2014, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumously) were announced as recipients of India's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna.
Following the announcement, the Modi government announced that the birth. anniversary of the former Prime Minister would be treated as Good Governance Day. Since then the day is celebrated throughout the country every year on December 25.
The aim is to create awareness of accountability in government among the citizens of India.
Dimension are under below:
Governance:
It is the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented).
Governance can be used in several contexts such as corporate governance, international governance, national governance and local governance.
Good governance means the exercise of authority for making the people happy, prosperous, self-sufficient and developed. It is based on certain values or norms and the quality of being efficient and effective in securing the goal of socio-economic development of the people and their society.
Good governance is a means to serve the people, by fulfilling their aspirations within the constitutional framework.
Eight Characteristics of Good Governance (as identified by the United Nations):
Participation:
People should have a voice in decision-making, either directly or through legitimate intermediate institutions that represent their interests.
Rule of law:
Legal frameworks should be fair and enforced impartially, particularly the laws on human rights.
Transparency:
Transparency is built on the free flow of information. Processes, institutions and information are directly accessible to those concerned with them, and enough information is provided to understand and monitor them.
Responsiveness:
Institutions and processes try to serve all stakeholders within a reasonable timeframe.
Consensus orientation :
Good governance requires mediation of the different interests in society to reach a broad consensus in society on what is in the best interest of the whole community and how this can be achieved.
Equity:
All groups, particularly the most vulnerable, have opportunities to improve or maintain their well being.
Effectiveness and efficiency :
Processes and institutions produce results that meet needs while making the best use of resources.
Accountability :
Decision-makers in government, the private sector and civil society organisations are accountable to the public, as well as to institutional stakeholder.
Step/initiative:
Good governance intex :
GGI has been launched by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions to determine the status of governance in the country.
It assesses the impact of various interventions taken up by the State Government and UTS.
National e-governance plan :
It has the vision to "make all government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency & reliability of such services at affordable costs to reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man."
Right to information :
It plays an effective role in ensuring transparency in governance. Other Initiatives: Setting up of NITI Aayog, Make in India programme, Lokpal, etc.
"WE DO NOT NEED MORE GOVERNMENT, WE NEED GOVERNANCE" , AND "WE DO NOT WANT MERE GOVERNANCE , WE WANT GOOD GOVERNANCE"
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