‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’: The Restructuring of Power in Modi's India

Ruparelia, Sanjay

doi:10.1080/00856401.2015.1089974

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“…The outsourcing of key powers and functions that traditionally fell under the rubric of government has newfound momentum under the current dispensation, with its slogan of "minimum government, maximum governance" (Ruparelia 2015;Modi 2014). But the evolution of these privatized forms of governance can be traced back to the contradictory dynamics that came into focus in the 1990s.…”

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Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India

Kennedy

Sood

2019

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In the years since liberalization, state power has been rescaled in India's polity and this is both a cause and consequence of greater interstate competition for footloose capital. In this context, some state governments are designing special regulatory tools to attract and concentrate investments by easing 'doing business' for private investors and leveraging land resources-primarily in their largest cities. Equally important, they ensure public investments are channelled to these select spaces and that resources are available for maintaining high standards of infrastructure. In Hyderabad, the 'Industrial Area Local Authority' (IALA) is a powerful tool that allows privatised management by state and nonstate actors of recently constructed productive spaces, mainly concentrating globalised service sector activities, including by collecting local tax revenues and various development charges to be spent exclusively within the industrial area. In this way, governance and fiscal functions are outsourced to non-elected bodies, outside the purview of democratic institutions. By essentially replacing municipal authorities, the IALA framework produces new forms of governance at the same time that it generates fragmentation of the institutional fabric of urban spaces. In effect, it creates a tool for bypassing urban politics, or in the case of periurban spaces does not allow an urban politics to emerge. Building on recent research, this paper examines the implications of IALAs in Hyderabad on urban governance and local state sovereignty.

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2019

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“…Modi cultivates the image of a leader willing to take difficult, risky, and initially unpopular decisions in the national interest. His hallmark is a technocratic style of governance (Ruparelia 2015). The swift, technology-reliant surgical strikes exemplified Modi's modus operandi.…”

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India’s Surgical Strikes: Response to Strategic Imperatives

Sasikumar

2019

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“…The devolution of power from India's central level of government to the states has been a lingering issue on India's political agenda (Ruparelia 2015;Sengupta 2015). One of Modi's focal points during his election campaign was to address this and many find that Modi's emphasis on reforming India's governance system along with promoting economic development played a key role for his striking electoral victory at India's central government level in 2014 (Ruparelia 2015).…”

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Smart and eco-cities in India and China

Höffken¹,

Limmer

2019

Local Environment

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Smart and eco-cities have become important notions for thinking about urban futures. This article contributes to these ongoing debates about smart and eco-urbanism by focussing on recent urbanisation initiatives in Asia. Our study of India's Smart Cities Mission launched under the administration of Narendra Modi and China's All-In-One eco-cities project initiated by Xi Jinpin unfolds in two corresponding narratives. Roy and Ong's [2011. Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell] "worlding cities" serves as the theoretical backdrop of our analysis. Based on a careful review of a diverse set of academic literature, policy and other sources we identify five process-dimensions for analysing the respective urban approaches. We show how the specific features of China's and India's urban focus, organisation, implementation, governance and embedding manifest both nations' approaches to smart and eco-urbanism. We argue that India's Smart City Mission and China's All-in-One project are firmly anchored in broader agendas of change that are set out to transform the nation and extend into time. The Indian Smart City Mission is part of a broader ambition to transform the nation enabling her "smart incarnation" in modernity. Smart technologies are seen as the key drivers of change. In China the framework of ecological civilisation continues a 5000-year historical tradition of civilisation excellence. By explicitly linking eco-urbanism to the framework, eco-cities become a means to enact ecological civilisation on the (urban) ground.

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‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’: The Restructuring of Power in Modi's India

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Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India

Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India

India’s Surgical Strikes: Response to Strategic Imperatives

Smart and eco-cities in India and China

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