Infrastructure development is the key to sustainable growth in India. It makes India globally competitive, raises standard of living, enhances profits for government, bridges rural-urban divide and increases level of employment. The most significant criteria for a continued growth rate of an...

Private sector participation through Public Private Partnerships is increasingly being used as a means for delivering physical infrastructure amidst increasingly constrained public budgets and inadequate service delivery. The Government of India, which is currently grappling with a crippling...

The most significant criteria for the continued growth rate of an economy rests on the provision of quality infrastructure. The Indian government finds it difficult to provide the required financial and technical resources and the executive capacity to cope with the rising demand for roads,...

Many nations across the world are building High Speed Railways Network. Recently, one of the Major entrants into this sector is the Republic of India. India already has a vast and well-established network of Railways. Though it is run professionally, there are still certain shortcomings of the...

In this paper, the researchers have delved into the perception of consumers towards PPP in Uttar Pradesh. The main objectives of this paper are to study the requirement of basic infrastructure, capability of the government and the need to involve private partners for providing infrastructure...

We provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective consequences for allocation of public services, welfare, and empirical measurement of government...

The issue of fiscal decentralisation has gained importance across the globe. Most of the developing countries are now moving towards fiscal decentralisation. This is on account of several reasons. Particularly, the existence of diverse preferences amongst the citizens makes the local governments...

The role of good management practices in organizations has recently been emphasized. Do the same principles also apply in government organizations, even the most bureaucratic and hierarchical of them? And can skilled, motivated managers identify how to improve these practices, or is there a role...

Despite the noble concept of equity wherein every citizen has equal right to live a decent life irrespective of their socio-economic and regional/geographic characteristics, the phenomenon of inequality is persistent in everyday life of people especially those living in developing countries such...

Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest public sector organizations. Its network, traffic, organization and extent of vertical integration are gigantic. This paper undertakes a critical examination of its procurement process to understand the procedures and institutional mechanisms which...