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082			_a324.60954 _bAIY-G
100			_aAiyar, Shankkar
245			_aGated Republic _b: India's Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions
260			_bHarpercollins _c2020 _aUttar Pradesh
300			_axiv,298p.
504			_aIncludes References
520			_aSeventy years since it became a republic, India has come a long way. But it is still failing on some key fronts: the provision of water, health, education, power, and law and order. Piped drinking water for all continues to be a pipe dream; homes and businesses are haunted by power outages; the lack of proper primary health care renders the poorest more vulnerable; millions of children coming out of schools lack rudimentary skills; and the security of lives and enterprises, a source of great anxiety, depends on private contractors. Indians are seceding from dependence on the government for these most basic of services and are investing in the pay-and-plug economy. They have internalized the incapacity of the state to deliver these and are opting for private providers despite the costs. That this is happening even as the state spends more and more tax-payer money every year is the reflection of a harsh reality: there is too much government and too little governance. But can India sustain private republics amidst public failures in a landscape scarred by social and economic fault lines? What are the possible solutions? Can government reinvent itself? The Gated Republic presents an interrogative view of the history and future of private India.
650			_aPolitics and government- _vPolitical Planning _vEconomic policy _vPrivate companies _zIndia
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