What is IndiaGoverns trying to do?
IndiaGoverns Research Institute aims to: • Make the development discourse between elected representatives and citizens better informed and backed by specific data, rather than only relying on perceptions; • Enable citizen groups and elected representatives to use such government data to strengthen their demands for greater government intervention on development issues relevant to them. There is so much data that the government collects that remains in the files and is not accessible to citizens. First, it is important to get this data out so people know what the government records say on various programmes and development parameters. Second, organising this data along MLA constituencies is useful because that enables citizens to take up issues with their elected representatives.
