gfiles magazine

January 30, 2018

TECHNOLOGY or DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE?

FOUR years ago, this clarion, ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, reverberated from every electoral platform of a particular political party. Believing it to be democratic governance with minimum intervention by the State, 31 per cent electorate voted that party to power. But what has happened since then is large scale abuse of State power to push all kind of technologies while abandoning the cardinal principle of governance-participatory decision making and democratic implementation.

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