The Public Governance Internship and Chief Minister’s Fellowships in India: An Empirical Analysis of Haryana

Abstract

Public governance is one of the fundamental dimensions about evolutionary perspectives of new public governance and good governance. It observes how formal and informal public decisions and actions are being made and carried out under the purview of constitutional values having different operational problems. Thus, the evolving role of the State needs a flexible approach to designing and implementing the process of public governance by considering the principal elements of good governance. In this context, the Government of Haryana took the initiative in 2016 to assess the public governance process through the fellows namely good governance associates.  This paper explores the background of the Chief Minister’s team as the agents of good governance in India and especially in Haryana through the empirical analysis and observations gathered through direct interaction with good governance associates and administrative machinery. The primary objective of this paper is to highlight the ground realities of public governance and governmental efforts in the name of innovations.