ontents: Preface 1.Democracy and Development in Post-Colonial India Revisiting Policy-making During the Nehru Era/Surya Narayan Misra 2.Public Policy Actors in India since the 1990s: Changing Role/Minarul Islam Biswas 3.India’s National Health Policy 2017: A Critical Review/Rumki Basu 4.Redesigning India’s Rural Economy by Rural Road Connectivity by Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna/Pooja Paswan 5.Urban Sanitation in Slums: A Study in Solid Waste Management Policy Implementation/Vanshree Agarwal 6.Digital India: An Initiative to transform the Nation/T.Sadashivam 7.Choice based Credit System in Universities and Colleges: An Analysis/Neeru Snehi 8.Right to Inclusive and Quality Education of Muslim Children: A Quagmire of Identity, Security and Exclusion/Nuzrat Parveen Khan & Muzaffar Hussain Mir 9.Gender and Development- A Study of Maternal & Child Health Care Policies in Odisha/Padamalaya Mahapatra 10.Performanc e of Janani Suraksha Yojana I Empowered Action Group States and Assam/Prajakta Pradip Shukla 11.Community in Public Policy: A Reflection on North-East India/Ningthoujam Irina 12.Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan: A Study/Zeba Fatima 13.Enactment of Muslim Women(Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019: Omitted Decisions/Meena Kumari 14.Public Policy and Nation-Building: A Critical Assessment of National Education Policy of India/Mohd.Rashid Khan 15.District Disaster Management: A Study of Implementation of District Disaster Management Guidelines and Evaluation of Capacity Building of Disaster Management in District Kishtwar/Ram Kumar 16.Impact of E-Governance Initiatives in Grievance Redressal: A Study of CM Window System in Haryana/Mohit Bishnio and Vidya Bhaskar Shukla