Reading Materialby pwblogAdditional Resources for Princeton Workshop Previous Workshop Resources * 2006 Princeton workshop on Right to Information Right to Food and NREGA ** Public Distribution System - an Overview; www.parivartan.com/public_dist_system.asp * Employment Guarantee - signs of transformation, by Nirmala Lakshman, Nov 2006 * Audit of NREGA Finds Problems in UP * 'UP is strongly lagging behind in implementing welfare schemes', Interview with Arundhati Dhuru, * HOW EFFECTIVE CAN A SOCIAL AUDIT ON GOVERNMENT’S INITIATIVE BE? by Sandeep Pandey on situation in Andhra Pradesh. * Democracy and Right to Food, Jean Dreze, 2004 * Employment Guarantee in Jharkhand: Ground Realities, Bela Bhatia and Jean Dreze, 2006 Right to Information and People participation * The Right to Information: Facilitating People's participation and State Accountability, by Aruna Roy and Nikhil Day * Government Under Your Gaze, Sandeep Pandey, 2007 * ‘Janata Soochana Kendra’: Enabling People Participation Through Information and Verification Accountability and Participatory Governance * Social Audit - Gram Sabha & Panchayati Raj, by Vision Foundation, Report submitted to Planning commission, Govt of India, October 2005 * The redistribution of Power, Aruna Roy and Nikhil Day * Demanding Accountability; Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shanker SIngh * New mechanisms for Public Accountability: The Indian Experience, by Samuel Paul; Public Affairs Center, Bangalore, India * Has Indian Democracy Failed? by Smitu Kothari * Citizen Activism and Public Accountability: Lessons from Case Studies in India; Anne Goetz and Rob Jenkins * Training modules for training of trainers on participatory local development; A chapter from "A Handbook for trainers on participatory local development" Local Ownership of Natural Resources * The Macro View: Corporate Sector led Growth and Growing Inequities, by Arun Kumar * Film 'Holy Water' by Lotta Ekelund: * Film on campaign in Medhdiganj, Uttar Pradesh against Coca Cola bottling plant: US-India nuclear Deal * The decade of our discontent, by P. Sainath: * NAPM Statement on India-US Nuclear deal * "1-2-3, the new arms race", Article on India-US Nuclear deal * Right to Education Campaign to demand Right To Education Bill - www.ashanet.org/campaigns/rte Links to other comprehensive websites for Right to Food & Right to Information campaigns and for status of NREGA implementation: |