GS2 · 15 marks · 250 words

What do you understand by India Stack? Discuss its role in good governance and improving ease of living.

Answered by 5 toppers · CSE 2023–2025

Syllabus: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.

How toppers approached it

From all 5 answers · about 190 words · 60% drew a diagram.

Opening

  • A definition80%
  • A date or context20%

Body

  • Points80%
  • Points and prose20%

Close

  • A way forward80%
  • A summary20%

The toppers’ answers

Shakti DubeyAIR 1 · CSE 2024 · 270 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a recent event

Recently, Government of India and Papua New Guinea signed a MoU to implement India stack.

Body · points

India stack :-

(1) It is a digital platform (2) Act as a single point of interaction between → government → bussiness → corporates → citizens, etc (3) It has been created with an intent to smoothen the interaction and ease the service delivery (4) It is in line with India's Digital India Mission (5) e-governance initiative to improve ease of Doing bussiness along with improving efficiency and transparency in governance. (6) This will help us acheive the idea of Minimum Government & Maximum Governance. (7) It's a hassle-free platform that will provide for single window clearance mechanism.

It's role in Good Governance :-

World Bank considers

  • Transparency
  • Accountability as two main values of Good Governance

(1) India stack is a digital online platform - therefore it enhance the transparency (2) Increased interaction between various stakeholders will create provision of - checks & balances (3) this will ease Grievance Redressal mechanism and hence will lead to responsive governance (4) Tracking complaints will be easy & lead to objectivity in decision making

Therefore - The idea of India Stack is a step towards ensuring hassel free governance.

However it has certain challenges like → challenge related to data privacy of the stakeholders → The threat of cybersecurity breach → Hacking of such crucial data can bring our internal security to standstill

Close · a way forward

Thus, there is a need to create a strong & robust cyber infrastructure to tackle the cyber threat and balance it with citizen centric governance based on Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas

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