Government of India on suggestions and inputs by NGO – Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on April 30, 2010 under Interviews, News, Video | 
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“It listens all the time, but what do civil society organizations have to suggest? Usually their suggestion is:
- You must have involvement with the local community. We completely agree with that. The central government keeps telling the state “please empower your local community”. The central government doe snot have the power to do that, only the stare government has.
- You should involve the NGOs, and we agree with that too. When good NGOs get involved they improve the quality of implementation and we encourage people to involve good NGOs. But the central government cannot start saying that this NGO is better than that NGO; it is the local body which controls the decision which has to choose the NGO. The problem is that if local bodies don’t want change they will surely not choose NGOs which want change… that is social capital, social harmony.”
