About AGAM: An Initiative for Good Governance

“Good governance is the wheel which sets in motion the cart of effective government.”

India has ample resources to meet the needs of its citizen. As a national polity, India developed a robust institutional framework to better serve its citizens. During the years following independence, the global developments on the political front were crucial in developing India’s administrative framework. Thus, welfare was the focal point of India's public service. However, India has not fully capitalised them to its advantage. A system, however, effective and well-intended needs support from the citizenry. In the present day, good governance has taken the centre stage. But the vastness of India geographically and culturally poses a major challenge to effective governance.

Good governance in any system is characterised by the extent of transparency and accountability. One of the biggest challenges which any institutionalised framework faces are developing models to increase transparency and accountability. If left unchecked, it can multiply resource misuse and provide for leakages in the system leading to resource divergence. In the contemporary context, where the government works in close collaboration with other entities such as corporations (national and multi-national), academic institutions, intergovernmental organisations, etc. the promotion of governance has to integrate these various actors. For a country like India, it is of significant importance that collective action must be undertaken to foster the goals of good governance and participation of the civil society has an immense role to play.

AGAM, as a centre to promote good governance, finds its genesis in the premise that the government needs the support of the civil society to effectively implement developmental schemes and achieve goals of good governance holistically.

AGAM is a non-governmental organization registered under the Society Registration Act, 1860, purely run and managed by volunteers. The prime objective of AGAM is to raise the level of governance in the area of not limited to Education, Health, Environmental Protection, Rural Development, Law and Justice.

Aims and Objectives:

The aims and objectives of AGAM are:

• To uphold and promote the core values enshrined in the preamble to the Constitution of India.
• To assist the government in development at the grass-roots level by promoting the role of Panchayati Raj Institutions.
• To promote holistic development by making adequate provisions for education, health, environmental protection, rural development, and law & justice.