Governance

Insights on governance.

Governance insights

Policy that is sound in the state capital routinely stalls before it reaches a household. The causes are rarely dramatic: a post left vacant, a budget released late, a form that only exists in one language, an accountability line that runs upward and never outward. These pieces look at where delivery breaks between the state and the district, and what has to change for a scheme to reach the person it was written for. This is the question underneath most of Sutra's work. See our work on governance and delivery.

Governance

Why Good Policy Stalls at the District

India's social policies are written in Delhi and state capitals. Whether they work is decided in more than 750 districts. That is where most of the gap opens up.