Rajasthan Patrika's novel effort is slowly making legislators more accountable
Anita Bhadel, 37, a first time legislator in the Rajasthan state assembly, was pleasantly surprised when her fellow legislators welcomed her into the House during the monsoon session in 2009 and asked her to distribute ladoos as she had been featured in Rajasthan Patrika’s Sadan ke Sitare (Stars of the House) segment.
To rank the legislators, the paper constituted a panel of experts, comprising independent and reputed members of the society as well as Patrika representatives who had been tracking the legislators’ performance. The panel assessed the performance of each legislator based on 10 aspects. The result was stunning, according to Siddhartha Kothari, director in Patrika’s management and one of the owners.
(This story appears in the 26 August, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)