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Good Governance and Human Rights: A South Asian Perspective Dr Babu Lal Meena Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Email: babulaljnu@gmail.com, Mobile No. 9868065581 Abstract South Asia has been undergoing a move to more democratic forms of governance over the last two decades. South Asia has long been a neglected area of study, primarily because it has been a region of great deficiency, poverty and sadness, apparently far from the mainstream of international arena. This Region is also known as one of the most misgoverned areas of the world. In recent years, however, the trend of democratization has swept away some of the military/authoritarian and traditional polities in the region. This change together with the common ethnic conflicts and violence which have determined almost every country of the region and the emergence of India as a country moving towards a speedy economic and industrial growth amongst other countries of South Asia. South Asian countries have adopted some major reforms in governance during the recent two decades. This paper establishes the importance of public management as an essential tool in the process. A global governance structure based on transparent principles of both economic efficiency and social justice is shown to be a desirable state of affairs; however, the present cracked process of globalization is more likely to end up in regionalism or even national protectionism and competition. Multilateral co-operation on the basis of the framework progressive here is an urgent necessity. This paper focuses on both the positive and normative analysis of Good Governance and Human Rights. The paper aims to discuss some of the important challenges faced by the South Asian countries in revamping their Good Governance, administrative systems and Human Rights in order to discern the emerging perspective of good governance in South Asia as different from its Western concept. Key words: Governance, Administrative systems, Human Rights and Globalisation