Good Governance

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Good Governance Engaged Citizenship A view
from Kerala

• K K Krishnakumar
• Kerala, India

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Good Governance Engaged Citizenship A view
from Kerala

• K K Krishnakumar
• Kerala, India

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Kerala
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Kerala
Population 32 Million Population Density 819 /
km2 Language Malayalam Sex Ratio 1058
No of women per 1000 men
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The Kerala Model!!
Literacy Literacy Literacy
M F Total
Kerala 94 88 91
India 76 54 65
China 95 86 91
USA 97 97 97
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The Kerala Model!!
Life Expectancy HDI
Kerala 73 0.64
India 63 0.59
China 71 0.72
USA 77 0.94
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Social Movements of Kerala
Progressive Rulers and Christian Missionaries
Public School System Libraries Girls
Education Education for Backward Sections
Fight for Self Respect
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Social Movements of Kerala
Sree Narayana Movement - From 1880s Empower
Through Organization, Enlighten Through Education
One Caste, One Religion, One God for Mankind
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Social Movements of Kerala
Left Political Movements - From 1930s
Organisation of Landless, Labourers, Small
Farmers Fight Against Fudelism
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Social Movements of Kerala
Left Political Movements - From 1930s
Worlds First Democratically Elected Communist
Government in 1957
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Social Movements of Kerala
Library Movement
More than 8000 Libraries Spread Across Kerala
Elected Peoples Committees Library as a
Socio-Political and Cultural Centre
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Social Movements of Kerala
Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad ( KSSP )
One of the Biggest Peoples Science Movements
Initiated Peoples Environmental and Health
Movements Organization with Around 60,000
Members
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Social Movements of Kerala
Total Literacy Campaign - 1989 -91
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Social Movements of Kerala
Total Literacy Campaign - 1989 -91
Around 300,000 Volunteers/Teachers and 3
Million Learners Linking Literacy with All
Major Livelihood and Developmental
Issues Literacy as a Uniting Platform
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Social Movements of Kerala
Localized Peoples Movements Local Issues,
Search for Alternatives, New Frontiers
of Fight and Resistance
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Social Movements of Kerala
Localized Peoples Movements Silent Valley
Movement Chaliyar and Other River Basin
Movements Plachimada - A Village Against a
Multinational Mineral Sand Mining
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Social Movements of Kerala
Peoples Planning Campaign Panchayats -
Local Self Government Constitutional
Amendment Decentralisation of Power, Devolution
of Finance Village Panchayats and Grama Sabhas
(village assemblies) District, Block and
Village Panchayats
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Social Movements of Kerala
Peoples Planning Campaign Planning from
Below Participatory Resource Mapping Village
Development Reports Construction of Engaged
Citizenship
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Kerala Development Model orExperience???
Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of
Participation Peoples Participation and
Governance Tensions Between Upper and Lower
Layers of Power Vertical and Horizontal
Positioning of Local Self Governments
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Challenges and Opportunities
Economic Globalisation Consumerism Trends
of Depoliticisation Private - Public Gender
Communalism Need and Greed Sustaining Kerala
Model Creative Participation Deepening
Democracy
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