Chapter : 4. Challenges to Democracy
Proposed reforms regarding doctors and Political Funding
Proposed reforms regarding doctors :
(i) The government should make it compulsory for the doctors to live in the village where they are posted, otherwise their service should be terminated.
(ii) District administration and police should carry out surprise raids to check the attendance of the doctors.
(iii) Village panchayat should be given the power to write the annual report of the doctor which should be read out in the Gram Sabha meeting.
(iv) Problems like this can be solved only if Uttar Pradesh is split into several smaller states which can be administered more efficiently.
Proposed reforms regarding political funding :
(i) The limit of the maximum expenditure allowed for any candidate (between 20-25 lakhs in most parts of the country in a Lok Sabha election) should be reduced further and strictly observed.
(ii) The financial accounts of every political party should be made public. These accounts should be examined by government auditors.
(iii) There should be state funding of elections. Parties should be given some money by the government to meet their election expenditure.
Citizens should be encouraged to give more donations to parties and to political workers. Such donations should be exempt from income tax.
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