What challenges do you think democracy in India faces today?

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In short: Illiteracy, misinformation and inequality, alongside real progress in representation.
  • Illiteracy, misinformation and inequality.
  • Barriers to equal participation, which are poverty, regionalism, gender inequality and social discrimination.
  • Gaps in the effective implementation of laws and policies, which may reduce public trust in institutions.
  • Citizens' own conduct, such as damaging public property, breaking public rules, and indifference to public issues.

Keep the book's balance

  • India has made significant progress in ensuring representation and participation.
  • These challenges remain at the same time, and both halves belong in the answer.
Revision: What Indian democracy faces today
Illiteracy, misinformation
inequality
Poverty, regionalism
gender inequality, discrimination
Weak implementation
reduces public trust
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And alongside these, real progress in representation and participation
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