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Putting rural India first

Amarjeet Sinha draws on four decades of work experience as a bureaucrat, offering valuable lessons for effective programme delivery in poverty reduction and gender empowerment in his book

The Last Mile: Turning Public Policy Upside Down
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The Last Mile: Turning Public Policy Upside Down

Sanjeev Ahluwalia
The Last Mile: Turning Public Policy Upside Down
Author: Amarjeet Sinha
Publisher: Routledge
Pages: 293
Price: Rs 1,295

The book comes pre-reviewed by several rural development eminence grises with whom the author collaborated as a government development professional. Unusually, for an IAS officer, he specialised narrowly in the rural development and social sectors, which the author ascribes to his good fortune. More likely, a deep personal commitment, outstanding achievements and productive professional relationships are his secret sauce.

The government in India was earlier better known for ideation and conception than implementation. Some of this had to do with the duality of Indian society, in which,

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