Good governance and public policy: a future perspective in Indian context / Amir Mahmood

In the 21st century India in particular and other countries of the world as a whole centred in the overall development i.e. socio-economic development of their people specially at grass root level and downtrodden or needy section of the society . In this view the government tries to provide in all respect best facilities and accessibilities to the people. To provide these facilities government ensures bureaucrats through good governance to implement policies for social upliftment. In which all the ingredients of good governance i.e. rule of law, participation of people, efficiency, effectiveness transparency, equity, inclusiveness, accountability and responsiveness etc. plays a very important role in acquiescence of its objectives. Since government is one of the actor in governance who makes programme and policy for development. Whatever public policy is made by the government is primarily targeted on to eradicate socio-economic problems. Although policy aspects are important for development, and the ingredient of good governance focuses on effective management. Good governance is required to ensure that those policies have their desired effect. In fact it helps to ensure that government actually deliver to their citizen what they say they will. This paper will try to focus on measures taken into account for public policy of the Indian government through various aspects of good governance and will also incorporate the future perspective of the public policy made for welfare of the people in India. Secondary resources will be used for the method of data collection as government reports, Articles, Journals etc. This paper will be concluded on the correlation between good governance and public policy and their impact as well as implication.