State and Participatory Goverance in North East India

Participatory governance focuses on deepening democratic engagement through the participation of citizens in the processes of governance of the state. In this citizens should play a more direct role in public decision-making or at least engage more deeply with political issues. Keeping in view of this, National Seminar on State and Participatory Governance with a focus to Northeast India, interested scholars wre invited to write Seminar Papers. So this book is the product of the academic interactions mainly on governance issues by different scholars. There ae sixteen papers dealing with various issues relating to governance with special focus on India Northeast. The book will be very useful for the policy makers, administrator, teachers and research scholars.

LALNEIHZOVI , MA, Ph. D. (Public Administration) has been teaching Public Administration subject at the PG and PG Diploma level in the then NEHU, Mizoram Campus, Aizawl (now) Mizoram University since 1989. Presently, she is Professor and Head, Department of Public Administration, Mizoram University. She being the first woman to obtain M.A. and Ph. D Degree in Public Administration in the Mizo society and Professor in Northeast made significant contributions to promote the discipline of Public Administration at the then NEHU and MZU  through supervising Ph.D. and M. Phil scholars; teaching and formulating courses at all levels of post-graduate, undergraduate and civil service syllabi; published good number of articles in prestigious journals; chapters in books, and authored and coauthored/edited 10 books.