Worldwide Governance Indicators might be useful to measure the performance of Union governance.
What are these indicators about?
Worldwide Governance Indicators, which is available on the World Bank’s database.
Although the Bank and other associated institutions have the standard disclaimer that they are not accountable for what the Indicators say.
There are six indicators, and 214 economies are scored on each of them every year, using combinations of surveys, opinion polls, individual interviews, consultations with experts and such.
India’s percentile rank is measured using such indicators (scoring from 0 to 100, a higher score being better)
What does the indicators figures about India?
Control of corruption – India improved sharply from 37.0 in 2013 to 47.1 in 2016.
Government effectiveness - India’s rank improved sharply from 45.2 in 2014 to 57.2 in 2016.
Regulatory quality - India’s rank moved up smartly from 35.1 in 2012 to 41.3 in 2016.
But these scores was noticeably better in 2006 (45.1).
On political stability and Absence of violence - India’s overall rank is surprisingly poor because of divergence of scores on two different issues.
India seriously being poor in this indicator, there is growing right wing extremism in the nation.
Present government pulled it up to 17.1 in 2015, but then saw the rank dip to 14.3 in 2016 lower than in 2005 (17.5).
On the internal security front, the Union government clearly suffered a setback in 2016.
Rule of law - The country’s rank in 2016 (52.4) was marginally lower than in 2013 (53.1), and significantly lower than in 2006 (58.4).
Voice and accountability – In this India has dipped from a rank of 61.5 in 2013 to 58.6 in 2016.
It is no surprise that the Union government does not do very well.
