
Salil Tripathi on Lessons from Bangladesh for India
Ideas of India
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Is the Prime Minister Can't Do These Things Right?
No matter what you do, whether you are a strong believer in a inramodi or not, t the prime minister simply can't do these things right. So some of it got solved because we removed command and control and went towards the markets which are naturally decentralized. But the polity also needs to be decentralized. We've had 25 years of panchaitirage institutions, since the 70 third, 70 fourth amendment. And i'm a little bit hopeful that if we fiscally federalize, not just on paper, democratically federalized, but we actually have these people empowered with purse strings then maybe, you know, you have some room to play with, and you
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