Narendra Modi spoke on 'Good Governance through Democracy' at launch of 'Beyond a Billion Ballots' in Mumbai!
Narendra Modi spoke on 'Good Governance through Democracy' at launch of 'Beyond a Billion Ballots' in Mumbai!
We need to institutionalize ideas & practices so that even if individuals don't remain in the system, the frameworks do! We do not need political interference which harms good governance but we need political intervention which encourages people's participation! I said that for good governance, we should move towards a culture of responsibility & ownership of society with trust & trusteeship as its pillars.
“As Mahatma Gandhi said, think if your decision will make that poor person happy and if it does, you are taking the right decision,” he said.
Shri Modi described trust as the precondition of good governance and he stressed on building institutions rather than concentrating on individuals. He said, “Institutions cannot be people centric. We have made things centered around people…if one family goes away this will happen…but is this our nation? The need is to institutionalize ideas and good practices. We should create network of institutions. A person may be there or not but the framework must remain.” He added, “Stronger these institutions, the better things will work. A person may slip and in those times it is the institutions that saves things.”
Speaking about good governance, Shri Modi recalled that Lokmanya Tilak had said ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it,” but now we should also state, “Su-rajya is our birthright and we must have it.” Shri Modi said that it is incorrect to keep blaming democracy for our problems and he shared that his Gujarat experience has shown that with the same system, laws, officials it is possible to bring change.
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