Rajasthan-Specific Context

Social justice in Rajasthan requires attention to:

• SC/ST communities: Rajasthan has a 17.8% SC population and 13.5% ST population — both heavily represented in MNREGA, PDS, and PM Awas Yojana.
• Gender justice: Rajasthan's sex ratio at birth has improved from 883 (2001) to 928 (2023) — but gender justice in land rights, education (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao), and domestic violence remains critical.
• Tribal land rights: FRA (Forest Rights Act, 2006) implementation in Barmer, Banswara, Dungarpur — FRA claims officers exercise value rationality when they ensure genuine recognition vs. instrumental rejection.

Accountability in Rajasthan:

• MKSS and RTI: Rajasthan's RTI movement (Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey) made global history — administrators must internalise RTI not as a threat but as a social accountability tool.
• Rajasthan Lokayukta has investigated multiple cases of corruption in mining leases, tribal land alienation, and drought relief diversion.
• Jan Soochna Portal (2019) places 300+ government services' data in the public domain — an accountability innovation.

Instrumental vs. value rationality in Rajasthan drought:
Every drought year, block-level administrators face the tension: instrumental rationality says distribute only to officially-listed BPL households (per the register); value rationality says ensure no one starves, expand the list on the ground, use discretion, and justify it later — which is the legally and ethically correct approach under NDRF (National Disaster Response Fund) guidelines.

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