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Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States
Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States
As we complete five years of CEGIS’ existence, it
gives me great pleasure to share my reflections
on the journey so far and our plans and goals for
the coming years.
As we take stock of India in our 75th year
as a Sovereign Republic, we have a lot to be
proud of including being the world’s largest
democracy and one of its fastest growing
economies. Yet, one of the biggest constraints
to accelerating India’s development is the
weak delivery of essential public services like
education, health, child development, rural
and urban civic amenities, safety, and justice.
Further, a key insight from years of research,
is that weak public service delivery in India is
not just due to inadequate spending (as often
posited), but largely due to the poor translation
of spending into outcomes. This low quality
of public spending, in turn, reflects chronic
underinvestment in our public systems of
governance to deliver better development
outcomes at any given level of spending.
In 2019, I embarked upon two projects to reflect
these insights. The first was to synthesise years
of research and practical experience into a
book that aimed to provide both a conceptual
and practical roadmap for governance reforms
to strengthen India’s public systems, and
government effectiveness. The second was to
set up an organisation that could help translate
these ideas into reality by supporting state
governments who were keen on implementing
such reforms in doing so, which was the main
goal for building CEGIS.
My original plan was to do these in sequence,
but the support of Ashish Dhawan along with
his shared conviction on the importance of this
mission enabled CEGIS to be built alongside the
writing of the book. The roadmap from the book
- “Accelerating India’s Development” which
was released in March 2024, informs CEGIS’
Theory of Change (TOC) for building effective
public systems by strengthening four key
systemic components of state capacity: outcome
MESSAGE FROM THE CO-FOUNDER
CEGIS: CONTRIBUTING
TO ACCELERATING
INDIA’S DEVELOPMENT
Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States
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