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Public Affairs And Governance

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EDITORIAL

Editorial

Malik

Ajmer Singh

Online Published on 22 June, 2023.

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2022

IndianJournals.com

The publication team of “The journal of Public Affairs and Governance”, is bringing out the Volume 10 No. 2, July-December 2022. In this volume, there are five research papers related to various and diversified areas such as electronic birth certificate issuance, Livelihood, Socio-economic Status of Elected Representatives of PRI’, Scientific Techniques of Investigation and Politics of Reforms: Rightsizing vs Job Creation. The four research articles have been contributed by Indian scholars and one by the foreign scholar. In this volume three articles are based on empirical study (survey research) and two article are based on secondary sources.

The first paper of the volume is contributed by Abdur Rahman, Md. Robiul Islam and Khandakar Farid Uddin on ‘Assessing Electronic Civil Birth Registration in Bangladesh: A Study on Dhaka South City Corporation,’ authors have examined the role of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in issuance of birth certificate through online mode, an empirical study conducted by the researcher. The findings of the study reveal that the DSCC has structural and operational challenges due to which citizens are availing of birth registration services manually. Citizens do not apply for birth certificate online.

The paper on ‘Livelihood by Self-Feminihood: A Case Study of Nuh District Haryana’ contributed by Neelam Singh, has explored the role of self-help groups in income generation in the study area i.e. Nuh block and Tauru block of Nuh District, Haryana. Researcher has gathered information from beneficiaries of both blocks and made the efforts to identify the various activities under Livelihood by Self-Feminihood and also challenges faced by the beneficiaries in availing loans.

The next paper, contributed by Pawan Kumar, is related to A Comparative Analysis of Socio-economic Status of Elected Representatives of PRI’s in Haryana. Author explores that how the socio-economic status of Elected Representatives of PRI, considering Government of Haryana, Panchayati Raj Act 2015, about the educational criteria, controls the open defecation in a rural area, deflators of the cooperative society loans are restricted. An empirical study conducted by the Author in Kurukshetra and Ambala. Study reveals that domination of upper caste and gender was found to have been declining gradually.

Priyanka Mittal’s paper is written on Legal Validity of Scientific Techniques of Investigation. In this paper author compares various techniques of investigation, traditional and modern methods of the investigation and their legal validity.

The last paper ‘Politics of Reforms: Rightsizing vs Job Creation’ by Sujata Singh examines that how the political parties try to entice voters by promising them government jobs at the times of Elections and after the elections how many jobs are created by the wining political parties at state level. Author has also indicated that there are various committees and commission for demoralised all these practices but there is no substantial outcome of the efforts. The implications of freebie politics have also been discussed in this paper.

Above all we would appreciate the reader’s and valued stakeholders’ comments on the papers.

Ajmer Singh Malik

Editor-in-Chief