IIM-A recommendations aim to make life beautiful

* Setting up of PURA-corporations at the district levels with the district collector as the joint CEO and a professional chief executive to run it full time,along with a review of their progress against well defined success indicators

* A complete overhaul of the water conservation policies

* Time study to benchmark a government official’s efficiency in processing an application

* Social recognition for honest government officials by publishing a monthly ‘Honour List’

* Whistle Blower Protection to provide security to honest officials

* Creation of a centralised database to indicate file movements in government departments to track points where transfer is delayed

* Poverty alleviation schemes should be customised according to the problems and competencies of the respective regions

* Reduction in information asymmetry in public departments

* Regional employment and poverty alleviation schemes should be integrated with regional PURA clusters in order to avoid duplication of efforts

* School vouchers should be issued to poor parents to empower them to select a school of their choice for their children

* Resources and recognition should be made available to unrecognised schools

* An Education Regulatory Authority of India like AICTE,UGC should be established

* Make it voluntary for college-going students to devote fixed hours for teaching poor children

* Create an online education portal by creating a rich database with the help of faculty from eminent institutes

* Creation of a knowledge hub by way of the Stakeholder Model

* To establish a national level organisation to integrate all R&D activities in all laboratories across the country for better results

* Introducing a package of essential health services

* Encourage social or private insurance for services outside the essential package

* Norms should be decided to exclude the wealthy from subsidised healthcare services; having a ‘national essential drug list’

* A fixed percentage of corporate hospitals earning from health tourism can be diverted towards creating facilities for the poor; a special tax rebate can be introduced for NRIs on their in-country income

* The age-wise pendency of cases at all judicial levels should be monitored by a higher authority

* Imposing a time-frame for various categories of litigations

* Upward revision of court fees to prevent rich litigants from consuming most of the court’s time

* High security deposit to deter contestants who follow disruptive brand of politics

* Person contesting from two seats should bear the cost of election for the seat vacated or the second rank person should get the seat if he polls more votes than a certain minimum percentage

* Audit of expenditure by professional CAs; defaulters should be made to pay hefty fine along with other punishments

* The corporate concept of Performance Matrix should be imbibed to measure the actual performance of the ruling party

* Voters’ registration costs should be brought down and preferential voting can be implemented. If over 50 per cent votes are negative,candidates should be debarred

* Bureaucrats can be directly recruited from traiing schools

* A 360 degree review system to reassess the performance of government servants by their subordinates,bosses,peers and citizens

* Balance Scorecard system for reviewing the performance of government organisation

* Village panchayats to be modified and developed into Community Development Centres

*One activity in each village/region to be promoted

* Food should be locally procured for public distribution system; PDS to be controlled using coupon system akin to the one used in Andhra Pradesh and

Karnataka

* Connecting innovations at grassroots by a Knowledge Network to deal with poverty