The idea behind the Governance Knowledge Centre (GKC)

“A remarkable movement to reform public management has swept the globe” ( Donald Kettl 2005:1) In UK it was christened as ‘New Public Management’ by Christopher Hoods (1991) while it was referred to as ‘Reinventing Government’ in USA. Its focus has been a development of performance oriented government with greater accountability, transparency and emphasis on production and delivery of services to ordinary people. In India this has reemerged as an ‘Administrative Reforms’ movement starting from the Fifth Pay Commission to the setting of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission and Administrative Reforms Reports."

Whatever may be the label, this new direction towards a slim but a speedier, more participatory and open bureaucracy has energized governance but has also placed many challenges before it. New demands of knowledge, information and experience has struck the offices of erstwhile administration not prepared to answer pesky questions from citizens. GKC is expected to be the lighthouse for capacity building in administrative management More>>