Pranab Kumar Panday
This article explores the state of women's participation in the political process in Bangladesh. Available data substantiates that women's organizations, donors, and nongovernmental organizations have influenced the government of Bangladesh to introduce quotas for women. Although quotas have increas...
Pranab Kumar Panday
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the power decentralisation process at the local level in Bangladesh. More specifically, this paper intends to explore whether or not the much needed autonomy has been built into the decentralisation process. The paper is basically based on the rev...
Pranab Kumar Panday
Pranab Kumar Panday, Ishtiaq Jamil
This article analyzes the dynamics of the conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. This study argues that violations of human rights by law enforcement agencies and Bangali settlers against indigenous people continue even after the signing of the 1997 peace accord. Furthermore, p...
Ishtiaq Jamil, Pranab Kumar Panday
This article provides an overview of the state of inter-organizational coordination and corruption in urban policy implementation in Bangladesh. Based on a study carried out in one of the seven large cities in Bangladesh, the available data illustrate that there are major coordination problems betwe...
Pranab Kumar Panday
Pranab Kumar Panday, Awal Hossain Mollah
Purpose The main aim of this paper is to analyze judicial system of Bangladesh, which comprises all courts and tribunals that performs the delicate task of ensuring rule of law in the society. The paper depicts the history and evolution of the judicial system in Bangladesh from ancient period to pre...
Pranab Kumar Panday, Shuvra Chowdhury
Ensuring effective service delivery to the citizens has become a common agenda for all the governments of the welfare states. Keeping this importance in mind, the government of Bangladesh enacted the Local Government (Union Parishad) act, 2009 (hereinafter the UP act, 2009) for ensuring people’s acc...
Pranab Kumar Panday, Ishtiaq Jamil
Pranab Kumar Panday
What happens to policy implementation when the process suffers from problems of coordination? In this article, the focus is on how central-local relations create inter-organisational coordination problems, which in the long run affect the implementation of policies in urban governance. In the case o...
Meghna Sabharwal, Evan M. Berman
Public Administration in South Asia, Meghna Sabharwal and Evan M. Berman India History and Context of Public Administration in India, R.K. Mishra Public Policy Processes and Citizen Participation in India, Dolly Arora Intergovernmental Relations in India, Rekha Saxena Public Service Ethics in India,...
Pranab Kumar Panday
This article addresses decentralising initiatives in Bangladesh with reference, first, to significant literature on decentralisation in the context of development and, thereafter, to a particular reform involving the introduction of the Upazila Parishad (UZP) as a potentially important tier of local...
Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday
Ishtiaq Jamil, Pranab Kumar Panday
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, signed in 1997, promised to end a long-standing armed conflict and grant a host of benefits to the indigenous people occupying the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. After a decade the accord has yet to bear fruit; it remains unimplemented and the suffering,...
Pranab Kumar Panday, Pradip Kumar Panday
Abstract This paper is intended to shed some light on the development of urban governance in Bangladesh by highlighting the issue of coordination. It addresses the question of whether there is any mechanism through which urban government bodies can ensure coordination on matters of dispute between d...