New Delhi: The brutal gang rape and murder of a young doctor at the state-owned RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata where she was taking rest at night after a gruelling schedule, the unfortunate drowning of three Civil Service aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre in the national capital and one more death of a child who fell in an open manhole in a state capital, illustrate how right across the governance at the levels closest to the people, there was a complete absence of accountability for those managing the public institutions and services on the ground.