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Good Governance & Engaged Citizenship ~ A view from Kerala

Good Governance & Engaged Citizenship ~ A view from Kerala. K K Krishnakumar Kerala, India. Good Governance & Engaged Citizenship ~ A view from Kerala. K K Krishnakumar Kerala, India. Kerala. Kerala. Population 32 Million Population Density 819 / km 2 Language Malayalam

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Good Governance & Engaged Citizenship ~ A view from Kerala

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  1. Good Governance & Engaged Citizenship~ A view from Kerala K K Krishnakumar Kerala, India

  2. Good Governance & Engaged Citizenship~ A view from Kerala K K Krishnakumar Kerala, India

  3. Kerala

  4. Kerala Population 32 Million Population Density 819 / km2 Language Malayalam Sex Ratio 1058* * No of women per 1000 men

  5. The Kerala Model!!

  6. The Kerala Model!!

  7. Social Movements of Kerala Progressive Rulers and Christian Missionaries ~ Public School System ~ Libraries ~ Girl’s Education ~ Education for Backward Sections ~ Fight for Self Respect

  8. Social Movements of Kerala Sree Narayana Movement - From 1880s Empower Through Organization, Enlighten Through Education One Caste, One Religion, One God for Mankind

  9. Social Movements of Kerala Left Political Movements - From 1930s ~ Organisation of Landless, Labourers, Small Farmers ~ Fight Against Fudelism

  10. Social Movements of Kerala Left Political Movements - From 1930s World’s First Democratically Elected Communist Government in 1957

  11. Social Movements of Kerala Library Movement ~ More than 8000 Libraries Spread Across Kerala ~ Elected People’s Committees ~ Library as a Socio-Political and Cultural Centre

  12. Social Movements of Kerala Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad ( KSSP ) ~ One of the Biggest People’s Science Movements ~ Initiated People’s Environmental and Health Movements ~ Organization with Around 60,000 Members

  13. Social Movements of Kerala Total Literacy Campaign - 1989 -’91

  14. 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

  15. Social Movements of Kerala Localized People’s Movements ~ Local Issues, Search for Alternatives, New Frontiers of Fight and Resistance

  16. Social Movements of Kerala Localized People’s Movements ~ Silent Valley Movement ~ Chaliyar and Other River Basin Movements ~ Plachimada - A Village Against a Multinational ~ Mineral Sand Mining

  17. Social Movements of Kerala People’s 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

  18. Social Movements of Kerala People’s Planning Campaign ~ Planning from Below ~ Participatory Resource Mapping ~ Village Development Reports ~ Construction of Engaged Citizenship

  19. Kerala Development Model orExperience??? ~ Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Participation ~ People’s Participation and Governance ~ Tensions Between Upper and Lower Layers of Power ~ Vertical and Horizontal Positioning of Local Self Governments

  20. Challenges and Opportunities ~ Economic Globalisation ~ Consumerism ~ Trends of Depoliticisation ~ Private - Public ~ Gender ~ Communalism ~ Need and Greed ~ Sustaining Kerala Model ~ Creative Participation ~ Deepening Democracy

  21. Thank You

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