The Supreme Court criticised the Nagaland government for delaying at every stage of the process of implementing the proposed 33 per cent reservation for women in local bodies.
Kerala suffers less from clientelism, authoritarianism, and neo-liberalism than many other parts of the world, but it is affected by the universal dilemma of how to unify numerous actors and build democratic links between the local, the wider government, and the economy. This article’s comparative insights indicate that the state requires democratic partnership governance to