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Holding the State to Account

Lessons of Bangalore’s Citizen Report Cards

Author : Paul, S.

Publisher: Public Affairs Centre

Place of Publish: India, Bangalore

Year: 2006

Page Numbers: 35

Acc. No: 3852

Class No: 351 PAU-SA

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Public Administration

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 81-88816-07-8

A citizen report card (CRC) is a way that enables citizens to evaluate the services provided by the government. CRS have been experimented within India as well as several other countries over a decade now. This paper narrates the experience of using CRS in Bangalore where the feasibility of this approach was first tested in relation to the major public services in the city.