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Now let us think only about India. Think of all the challenges that democracy faces in contemporary India. List those five that should be addressed first of all. The listing should be in order of priority, i.e., the challenge you find most important or pressing should be mentioned at number 1, and so on. Give one example of that challenge and your reasons for assigning it the priority.                                             [NCERT]

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Priority	Challenges to democracy	Example	Reasons for preference
1.	Foundational Change	Challenge in the Constitutional design to suit the present challenges of India	in the In the changing world towards globalisation India needs some reforms in the Constitutional Designs to cope up with.
2.	Challenge of Deepening	Representation to women and SCs and STs.	With the Constitutional Change India is required to accommodate Social Diversity as well.
3.	Challenge of Criminalisaton	Electoral Reforms of use money and muscle power	In order to have free and fair election under the electoral reforms, Influence of money and power must be curbed.
4.	Challenge of Expansion	Federal Decentralisation	Keeping in view the vastness of our country representation must be given at the local level also.
5.	Challenge of Corruption	Politicians and their possessions	In order to check the corruption among politicians and their criminal record the concept of Affidavit has been introduced in India.