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9th Dr. Ambedkar Memorial LectureDr. Ambedkar Chair in Social Justice,

Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi organised 9th Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on the theme “Social Justice and Private Sector” on January 30, 2018. Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat, Professor Emeritus, JNU Delhi, Distinguished Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra and Former Chairman, UGC and ICSSR, delivered the lecture. He made a very comprehensive and evidence based analysis on the graded caste inequality and poverty referring to exclusion of depressed classes in terms of property rights and employment in private sector. Low income and high poverty of the scheduled castes is due to inequality in income earning capital assets due to unfavorable exclusion and unfavorable inclusion (discrimination) in the past and present in the markets. As a result of less income, lack of capital assets, education and employment, economic return on these factors is low. Dr. T. Chatterjee, Director, IIPA in his remarks said that social justice is not natural and just a goal. It is also a process of learning and growing, a struggle which a society has to grow through. Prof. Sushma Yadav, Professor, Public Policy & Governance and Former Chair Professor, IIPA and Member UGC, appreciating the lecture of Prof. Thorat shared her experience with the chair at IIPA. Shri D.P. Majhi, Director, Dr. Ambedkar Foundation graced the occasion as a special guest.

Dr. C. Sheela Reddy, Chair Professor, welcomed the guests, briefed about the Chair and its activities and finally proposed vote of thanks at the end of the event.

Integrated Orientation Training Programme under AMRUT

Integrated Orientation Training Programme for functionaries of all missions from the State of Arunachal Pradesh was organised from January 23-25, 2018 under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and

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Urban Transformation (AMRUT). It was sponsored by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Government of India. The sessions were conducted with an aim of providing an urban sector overview on new initiatives like AMRUT, Housing for All etc and at the same time identifying reforms on urban development and improving urban services, urban governance in the overall context of emerging trends in urban sector in India. The programme was coordinated by Dr. Kusum Lata.

Programme for Technical Personnel, Science and Technology

11th Capacity Building Programme for Technical Personnel from Science and Technology Departments, Government of India was organised from January 8-19, 2018. The programme was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology. Seventeen Participants from Scientific and Technical Institutions participated in this two week programme. During the programme sessions were conducted to enhance the understanding of administrative and financial rules and procedures as well as to provide an exposure to management related issues, problems and solutions. The programme was aimed at enabling cross learning and team work through preparation of group reports and presentations. Prof. Aasha Kapur Mehta and Dr. Mamta Pathania coordinated the programme.

Programme on Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) Centre for Urban Studies at IIPA organised a

two day Orientation Programme on Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) - Urban for trainers from Administrative Training Institutes (ATIs) belonging to Government of India and State governments from January 30-31, 2018. The programme was a part of Swachhta Action Plan of Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India. 21 trainers drawn from States and Union territories such as Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh ,Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh ,Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and central training institutes covering CPWD, Housing and urban Development Corporation and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay National Academy of Social Security participated in the programme. Shri Durga Shanker Mishra , Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUA) ,Government of India , inaugurated the programme. Dr. T Chatterjee

, Director IIPA ,while welcomed Shri Mishra and the participants. A book based on IIPA study on Role of ATIs in the SBM was released. Shri Akhhilesh Jha, Controller of Accounts, DoPT, also addressed the participants. Shri Naveen Agrawal, Director, SBM, MoUA interacted on overall focus and achievements and roadmap of the mission. The programme was coordinated by Professor KK Pandey, Coordinator, CUS, Shri Amitabh Ranjan, Registrar, IIPA and Dr. Amit Singh, Assistant Professor, CUS, IIPA.

Programme on Climate Smart GovernanceIndian Institute of Public Administration in

collaboration with SEEDS Technical Services Pvt Ltd organised a blended capacity Building Programme on “Climate Smart Governance” from January 29- February 2, 2018. The programme was sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The sessions were aimed at understanding the basic science behind climate change and comprehend the sectoral climate change affects. Dr T. Chatterjee, Director made the inaugural presentation on “An approach for India”.Prof. Vinod K. Sharma and Dr. Shyamli Singh were programme coordinators.

6th Training Programme on Knowledge Management & Sharing

One week training programme on “Knowledge Management & Knowledge Sharing in Organisations” for Scientists and Technologists of all levels working in various research and academic institutions of Government of India was organised from February 5-9, 2018. The Programme was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Sessions were conducted with a view to enabling scientists and technologists in acquiring

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Indian Institute of Public AdministrationI.P. Estate, Ring Road, New Delhi-110002

Prof. K.K. Pandey

Prof. K.K. Pandey, an economist with expertise on municipal finance has over three decade of experience on urban finance and management. He is currently a Professor of Urban Management at IIPA with previous experience as Chief Economist HUDCO, Chief (Research & Training) HSMI of HUDCO and Senior faculty at National Institute of Urban Affairs. Prof. Pandey has provided expert advice to multilateral agencies, national government and provincial governments in India, financial institutions and city governments across the country. He has served, in this regard, as member of exert groups, drafting committees, working groups, national delegations, etc. He has several research reports, books, articles to his credit.

Dr. Sachin Chowdhry

Dr. Sachin Chowdhry is Associate Professor at IIPA with specialisation on urban governance and management, public policy analysis and basic services and infrastructure. He also worked with Twelfth Finance Commission and provided professional inputs to various committees/ working group on urban and public administration related issues. Dr. Chowdhry has around 15 years of professional experience. Professional activities of Dr. Chowdhry involves research and training on water supply and sanitation, Metropolitan planning, Evaluation of government of india’s flagship programmes - MNAREGA, Public Distribution System in selected states and Swarna Jayanti Shahri Rojgar Yojana.

How Inclusive are the Panchayats?

The Future Strategy

A Monograph

Nupur Tiwari

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, NEW DELHI

ABOUT THE AUTHORDr. Nupur Tiwari is currently a Faculty member, Rural Administration and Panchayati Raj at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, IIPA, New Delhi. She is also the Coordinator for Centre for Public Policy, Planning and Development, IIPA.

Earlier, she served as Senior Consultant to the former Union Minister of Panchayati Raj, Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, providing inputs on Local government. She has also served as faculty member at Centre for Rural studies, LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, where she was involved in training of the Indian Administrative service officers in areas related to Rural Development.

She has worked on Five Major Projects as Project Director, funded by IDRC, Irish Aid, Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Rural Development and UNDP. She has prepared several Reports for Government of India.

Her current research interests include Decentralization and Local governance (Panchayati Raj), Gender Issues in Informal workforce and Tribal policy.

She has thirty five research papers/Articles published in National and International peer reviewed journals. She has authored three books/ Monographs and has contributed Chapters in eleven volumes. Four books on these issues are forthcoming.

She was a member of Thematic Group on Panchayati Raj and Local-self government constituted by Ministry of DoNER.

She was involved in the Expert Committee for Leveraging Panchayati Raj, Constituted by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India (November, 2012). She was recently nominated as the Domain Expert for the spot study for PM award for excellence in Public Administration (2014).

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CONTRIBUTORSSardar Vallabhbhai Patel Pranab MukherjeeDr. Rajendra Prasad Narendra ModiGovind Ballabh Pant A.P.J. Abdul KalamDr S. Radhakrishnan Atal Bihari Vajpayee C. Rajagopalachari Rajiv Gandhi Dr. Zakir Hussain Manmohan SinghJagjivan Ram Asoka Mehta C.D. DeshmukhJohn Matthai V.T. Krishnamachari G.V. Mavalankar Karan SinghP.B.Gajendragadkar Swami Ranganathananda A.D. Gorwala M. Hamid AnsariB. Shiva Rao B.K. Nehru K.L. Shrimali D.R. Gadgil N. Raghavan Pillai T.N. Chaturvedi M. Channa Reddy P.S. AppuC.S. Venkatachar R.P. Khosla P.C. Alexander H.V. KamathN.V. Gadgil Tarlok Singh L.K. Jha B. Sivaraman S.G. Barve L.M. SinghviL.P. Singh Dharma ViraJ.S. Verma V. Jagannadham S. Lall J.N. Khosla B. Venkatappiah V. SubramaniamBalvantray Mehta S.R. Maheshwari

CONTRIBUTORSSardar Vallabhbhai Patel Pranab MukherjeeDr. Rajendra Prasad Narendra ModiGovind Ballabh Pant A.P.J. Abdul KalamDr S. Radhakrishnan Atal Bihari Vajpayee C. Rajagopalachari Rajiv Gandhi Dr. Zakir Hussain Manmohan SinghJagjivan Ram Asoka MehtaMorarji Desai C.D. DeshmukhJohn Matthai V.T. Krishnamachari G.V. Mavalankar Karan SinghP.B.Gajendragadkar Swami Ranganathananda A.D. Gorwala M. Hamid AnsariB. Shiva Rao B.K. Nehru K.L. Shrimali D.R. Gadgil N. Raghavan Pillai T.N. Chaturvedi M. Channa Reddy P.S. AppuC.S. Venkatachar R.P. Khosla P.C. Alexander H.V. KamathN.V. Gadgil Tarlok Singh L.K. Jha B. Sivaraman S.G. Barve L.M. SinghviL.P. Singh Dharma ViraJ.S. Verma V. Jagannadham S. Lall J.N. Khosla B. Venkatappiah V. SubramaniamBalvantray Mehta S.R. Maheshwari

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Centre for Urban StudiesIndian Institute of Public Administration

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About the Authors KK PandeyProfessor of Urban Management and Coordinator, CUS, IIPA, Ph.D. (Economics – Municipal Fiscal Instruments), Agra University (1996), Advance Course on Urban Management, Birmingham University, UK, 1994, PG Diploma in Urban Development Planning (Financing the Municipal Services), Institute of Housing Studies (IHS), Netherlands, 1985, International Course on Population Studies, University of Hawaii, USA, Online UN-ESCAP course on Municipal Finance April-May, 2000, UN courses on Local Government Management and Leadership. Has 37 years of experience on urban management/governance, finance and housing. Has been a member of seven UN Expert groups, high level missions and committees on urban issues in India and abroad. Also has several publications at his credit drawn from the experience on research, training and advisory services to a range of stakeholders.

Dr. Sachin ChowdhryDr. Sachin Chowdhry, faculty at IIPA since 2005, has been engaged in studies relating to public pol-icies and public service delivery both for national and international agencies. He has conducted stud-ies sponsored by various ministries of Government of India including Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of tribal Af-fairs, Ministry of Steel, etc. and Water and Sanitation Programme, South Asia. He has also published books on urban issues.

Sujit Kumar Pruseth He is currently a faculty member at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi dealing with urban affairs, public administration and policies. He was earlier a faculty member at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He completed MA, M.Phil, PhD from JNU, New Delhi. He was trained by UN-HABITAT at Israel. He has served as Member, Kerala State Council of Science, Technology and Environment, Government of Kerala. A number of books are to his credit and he contributes regularly to national English dailies.

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RESEARCH & EVALUATION WORK

“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.” - Edmund Burke

skills, knowledge, techniques for managing knowledge assets in a holistic way, thus promoting knowledge culture in the organisation through sharing knowledge assets for creating opportunities through productivity gains. Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi and Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath coordinated the programme.

Programme on Higher Administration & Legal Matters

Two week mandatory Training Programme on Higher Administration and Legal Matters for Execut ive Engineers (EEs) (Civil & Electrical) of Central Public Works Department (CPWD) was organised from January 8 –19, 2018. The Programme was sponsored by the CPWD, Government of India. Sessions were

conducted to develop an understanding and usage of the administrative and financial rules and skills required for more effective discharge of their duties. Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath and Dr. Pawan Kumar Taneja were the programme coordinators.

Rural Consumer Awareness CampThree days Rural Consumer Awareness Camp

was organised on Consumer Protection Utility by Consumer Studies Centre, IIPA from January 20-22, 2018 in Allahabad. Prof. MP Dubey, Vice-Chancellor, Uttar Pradesh Rajshri Tandon University was the Chief Guest of the event and Shri Om Prakash Dubey, Advisor, Manpower and Management, UNO was the distinguished guest. Prof. Rameshwar Prasad Mishra, former Vice-Chancellor, Allahabad University presided the event which saw the presence of 112 participants. Dr. Ravi Shankar Shukla coordinated the programme. Pamphlets related to Consumer Protection were distributed on the last day of the event.

A project on “Exploring the Possibility of Estimating the Monetary Value of Women’s Con t r ibu t ion to GDP” was undertaken by IIPA at the behest

of National Commission for Women. An attempt

was made to build alternative estimates of women’s contribution to GDP in India that are based on micro ground realities regarding the economic contribution of women who live in villages and slums. Prof. Aasha Kapur Mehta and Sanjay Pratap were project coordinators.

ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS FROM APRIL 2017 - MARCH 2018

S. No.

Project Project Coordinator(s) Agency

1. Chronic Poverty Research Centre, India. Phase III, Final Segment

Prof. Aasha Kapur Mehta (Team Leader for CPRC India)

Univ. of Manchester & DFID

2. Impact of Integrated Rubber Development Projects on Tribal Livelihoods in Tripura: A Sociological Study

Dr. Gadadhara MohapatraDr. Girish Kumar

Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR)

3. Impact of MGNREGA in narrowing gender gap in the Informal Workforce, A comparative Study of women participation in Uttar Pradesh (Shahjhanpur and Bareilly)

Dr. Nupur Tiwari Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Govt. of UP

4. Report Submitted to Independent Evaluation of SHGs formed by Non Profit Organizations for Supply of Hot Cooked Supplementary Nutritious Food under ICDS Project of Delhi Govt.

Dr. Nupur Tiwari

Ministry of Women and Child Development

5. Report Submitted to PESA and Left Wing Extremism (LWE): A Study of Extremist Affected Areas of Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh and Orissa

Dr. Nupur Tiwari Indian Council of Social Science Research

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“My country! When right keep it right; when wrong, set it right!”- Carl Schurz

6. Impact Assessment Study on the revised policy for Verification of Character and Antecedents.

Dr. Nupur Tiwari DoPT

7. Women facing constraints at workplaces: an analysis of the service sector in Delhi

Dr. Saket Bihari National Commission of Women

8. State Consumer Helpline Knowledge Resource Management Portal (SCHKRMP) (Third Year)

Prof. Suresh Misra, Dr. Sapna Chadah, Dr. Mamta Pathania

Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

9. National Consumer Helpline Prof. Suresh Misra Dr. Mamta Pathania

Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

10. Policy Paper and Book on “Assuring SOEs Joint Ventures Success: Select Case Studies from India”

Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath Department of Public Enterprises, Government of India

11. Evaluation of Quality Council of India (QCI) with respect to the accreditation of Government and Private ITIs

Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath Ministry of skill Development and Enterpreneurship

12. Assessment of the Current Status of Research and Development and Benchmarking the Higher Education Institutes in North India

Dr. Roma Debnath Dr. Shyamli Singh

NSTMIS, DST

13. Impact Assessment of My Gov. Dr. Charru Malhotra Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

14. Digital India Project: Awareness and skill Development Program for District level SC/St officials through State ATIs.

Dr. Charru Malhotra Ministry of Information Technology

15. Consultancy for reviewing Management and Structure of National Scheduled Castes Finance (Development Corporation (NSFDC)

Dr. Mamta Pathania National Scheduled Castes Finance Development Corporation (NSFDC)

16. Evaluation of M.8.7 Shillong 1897 Earthquake Prof V.K SharmaDr. Shyamli Singh

NDMA, Ministry of Home Affairs

17. Climate Smart Governance Prof. Vinod SharmaDr. Shyamli Singh

DST (GoI)

18. Capacity Building Strategies for Managing Complex Disasters in the face of Climate Change

Prof. Vinod SharmaDr. Shyamli Singh

MoEF (GoI)

19. Strengthening and Restructuring of Centre Pollution Control Board

Prof. Vinod Sharma,Dr. Shyamli Singh

CPCB

20. Report Submitted on Impact Assessment of Multi Sectoral Development Programme

Dr. Girish KumarDr. Sujit Kumar Pruseth Dr. Pradip Kumar Parida

Ministry of Minority Affairs, GoI

21. Public Grievances: A Study of Grievances received on CPGRAMS

Prof. Dolly Arora Ministry of HRD (Draft Report submitted)

22. Study on “Energy efficiency in Eco Cities” (A Case Study of Residential Sector in Dehradun City, Uttaranchal)

Prof. K. K. PandeyDr. Sachin Chowdhry Dr Sujit Kumar Pruseth

HSMI, HUDCO

23. Models of Decentralised Solid Waste Management in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad

Prof. K. K. Pandey DoPT, GoI

24. Study on ATI involvement in SBM Prof. K.K. Pandey Shri Amitabh RanjanDr. Amit Singh

DoPT, GoI

25. Study on Manpower Requirements in Various Departments of NDMC

Prof. K.K. Pandey, Dr. Sachin Chowdhry

NDMC

26. The Impact of Pesticides use in Crops on SC/ ST Communities in Kerala”

Dr. Sheela Reddy Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Foundation

27. Users Perception, Quality of Assets Created under MGNREGA: A Study of Four Districts in Bihar

Dr. Saket Bihari Nat ional Inst i tute of Rural Development and Panchayti Raj, GoI, Hyderabad

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NEWS FROM BRANCHES

“A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.” - Auliq Ice

J&K Regional BranchThe branch organised the flag hosting ceremony

to mark 69th Republic Day with Sahyog India, School of Special Students on January 26, 2018. The flag hoisting was done by Dr C.M. Seth, IFS (Retd.) Vice Chairman, IIPA J&K Regional Branch and Special Children of Sahyog India followed by National Anthem as token of respect to tiranga and martyrs. The entire programme was organised under the guidance of Er. J.B.S. Johar, Hony. Secretary, IIPA J&K Regional Branch. Prominent persons present were Ashwani Jojra, Founder, Sahyog India, Dr Anil Gupta, Joint Secretary, Prof Alka Sharma, Farooq Ahmed, IPS (Retd.), Er. S.K.Gupta, Dr. D.R. Kapoor, G.R. Bhagat, IAS (Retd), Dr Yashpal Sharma, Sudershan, Chander

Gulhati, T.P.Singh, Col (Retd.) Karan Singh, Jatin Chanjotra, Deepak Gupta, Preeti Kashyap, Sub Editor, Jammu Voice. Sweets and refreshment were distributed among the special children of Sahyog India. • The Branch organised the 8th Sat Paul Sahni

Memorial Lecture on “Challenges before Indian Media” on January 20, 2018. K.G. Suresh, Director General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, in his presentation reflected on three biggest challenges while discussing the role of the fourth estate. Dr. S. S. Bloeria, IAS (Retd.), Former Chief Secretary, J&K was the Chief Guest. Dr. Ashok Bhan, IPS (Retd.), Former Director General of

28. Third Party Evaluation Study on Estates Management for Department of Posts

Dr. Kusum Lata Dr. Saket Bihari Dr. Anupam Sarkar Dr. Anjali Dhengle

Ministry of Communications, Government of India.

29. Third Party Evaluation Study on Human Resource Management for Department of Posts

Dr. Anjali Dhengle Dr. Kusum Lata Dr. Saket Bihari Dr. Anupam Sarkar

Ministry of Communications, Government of India.

30. Third Party Evaluation Study on Social Infrastructure and Development Fund (SIDF)

Dr. Saket Bihari Dr. Kusum Lata Dr. Anupam Sarkar Dr. Anjali Dhengle

MDoNER, GoI

31. Third Party Evaluation Study on Capacity Building & Technical Assistance and Advocacy & Publicity

Dr. Kusum Lata Dr. Saket Bihari Dr. Anupam Sarkar Dr. Anjali Dhengle

MDoNER, GoI

32. Evaluation Study on Khelo India (National Programme for Development of Sports)

Dr. Anupam Sarkar Dr. Saket Bihari Dr. Kusum Lata Dr. Anjali Dhengele

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.

33. Evaluation Study on Encouragement and Awards to Sportspersons

Dr. Saket Bihari Dr. Anupam Sarkar Dr. Surabhi Pandey

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India

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NEWS FROM STATES

“The honor of a nation is its life.” - Alexander Hamilton

Police, J&K was the Guest of Honour on this occasion. K.B. Jandial, IAS (Retd.), Former Member, J&K PSC also payed his tribute. Earlier, Vikrant Kuthiala, Hony. Treasure, IIPA J&K Regional Branch formally welcomed the august gathering and introduced the speaker and Dr Komal Nagar, Joint Director, Seminars conducted the proceedings of the function and presented the formal vote of thanks. Er. JBS Johar, Hony. Secretary coordinated the event.

• The Branch conducted the 39th Annual General Meeting of IIPA J&K Regional Branch on January 6, 2018. During the meeting it was decided that Dr Ashok Bhan will be the Patron. Shri B.R.Sharma, IAS was re-elected as Chairman of the IIPA, JK Regional Branch for the period 2018-20. Similarly, the new office bearers for the period 2018 – 2020 were also elected and the Executive Committee was also nominated. The AGM was attended by 62 members of the branch.

Tirupati Local Branch The branch in collaboration with S.V.U- Retired

Teachers’ Association & South India Regional Committee of AICMED in Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati organised Mahan Bharat Abiyan on January 4, 2018. Sri M. Narayana Charyulu, a protagonist for Rural Development Mission addressed the talk and raised the torch towards 7 lakh village’s development. At present, Mahan Bharat Abiyan covers 7 States and 19 objectives. Prof. M Bhaskar, Rector, SVU spoke and highlighted the USA development and

compared with India’s achievements. Prof. A. Ranga Reddy, Chairman of the branch and SVU Retired Teachers Association chaired the meeting. Prof. M.C. Reddeppa Reddy introduced the topic of the theme. Prof. T Lakshmamma, Treasurer of the branch welcomed guests on the dias and Dr. A. Samanthakamani, Secretary of the branch proposed the vote of thanks. • The branch in collaboration with Sri Venkateswara

University Retired Teachers Associat ion organised a book release of “Laws of Consumer Rights: From Cheating to Ethical Markets”, edited by Prof. A. Ranga Reddy and Prof T. Lakshmamma on January 30, 2018. Chairman of the branch, Prof. A. Ranga Reddy chaired the book release while Prof. T Lakshmamma, Head, Department of Population Studies and Social Work, SVU introduced the background of the book. Two-minute silence was also observed on the 70th death anniversary of the Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Prof. T. Venkateswarlu, Department of Economics, Windsor University, Canada, Prof. K.L Narayana, former Principal, SVU Engineer College, P Raja Reddy, Consumer Activist, Prof. Devarajulu, ex-Registrar, S.V. University, Prof. M.A. Hussain, Prof. Cattamanchi Mahalakshmamma, Prof. K. Santha Kumari, Head, Department of Economics and other dignitaries attended the event. Prof. P. Ramakrishna Choudhary, Secretary, SVU welcomed the guests and Prof. A. Samanthakumari, Secretary of the branch proposed the vote of thanks.

Indian and Israeli PM inaugurates iCreate in Ahmedabad

With a view to developing an ecosystem in India for generation of quality entrepreneurs, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dedicated iCREATE facility to the nation. Located on the outskirts of Ahmedabad,

the iCreate is an independent Centre created with an objective of facilitating entrepreneurship through a blend of creativity, innovation, engineering, product design and leveraging emerging technologies to deal with major issues such as food security, water, connectivity, cybersecurity, IT and electronics, energy, bio-medical equipment and devices, etc.

10 New Economic Facts on Indian Economy The recent Economic Survey 2017-18 tabled in

Parliament by the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley stated that a series of

major reforms undertaken over the past year will allow real GDP growth to reach 6.75 per cent financial year and will rise to 7.0 to 7.5 per cent in 2018 - 19, thereby re-instating India as the world's fastest growing major

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“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.” - Norman Douglas

economy. The Economic Survey presented by the Union Finance Minister has relied upon analysis of the new data to highlight ten new economic facts:

1. Goods and Services Tax (GST) has given a new perceptive of the Indian economy and new data has emerged. There has been a fifty percent increase in the number of indirect taxpayers. Similarly, there has been an addition of about 18 lakh in individual income tax filers since November 2016.

2. India’s formal sector, especially formal non-farm payroll, is substantially greater than what it currently is believed to be. It became evident that when “formality” was defined in terms of social security provisions like EPFO/ESIC, the formal sector payroll was found to be about 31 percent of the non-agricultural work force. When “formality” was defined in terms of being part of the GST net, such formal sector payroll share was found to be 53 percent.

3. For the first time in India’s history, data on the international exports of states has been dwelt in the Economic Survey. Such data indicates a strong correlation between export performance and states’

standard of living. States that export internationally and trade with other states were found to be richer. Such correlation is stronger between prosperity and international trade.

4. India’s exports are unusual in that the largest firms account for a much smaller share of exports than in other comparable countries. Top one percent of Indian firms account only for 38% of exports unlike in other countries where they account for substantially greater share – (72, 68, 67 and 55 percent in Brazil, Germany, Mexico and USA respectively). Such tendencies were also found to be true for the top five or ten per cent of the Indian companies.

5. It was pointed out that the Rebate of State Levies (ROSL) has increased exports of ready-made garments (man-made fibers) by about 16 per cent but not of others.

6. The data highlighted another seemingly known fact that Indian society exhibits a strong desire for a male child. It pointed out that most parents continued to have children until they get number of sons. The survey gave details of various scenarios leading to skewed sex ratios and also gave a comparison on sex ratio by birth between India and Indonesia.

7. The survey pointed out that tax departments in India have gone in for contesting against in several tax disputes but also with a low success rate which is below 30 per cent. About 66 per cent of pending cases accounted for only 1.8 per cent of value at stake. It further stated that 0.2 per cent of cases accounted for 56 per cent of the value at stake.

8. Extrapolating the data of the survey indicated that growth in savings did not bring economic growth but the growth in investment did.

9. The survey mentions that collection of direct taxes by Indian states and other local governments, where they have powers to collect them is significantly lower than their counterparts in other federal countries. A comparison has been given between ratios of direct tax to total revenues of local governments in India, Brazil and Germany.

10. The survey captures the footprints of climate change on the Indian territory and consequent adverse impact on agricultural yields. Extreme temperature increases and deficiency in rainfall have been captured on the Indian map and the graphical changes in agricultural yields are brought out from such data. The impact was found to be twice as large in un-irrigated areas as in irrigated ones.

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“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” - Howard Zinn

Solicitation of Articles for IJPA Like every year the Institute is bringing out a Special Issue (July-September 2018) of the Indian Journal of

Public Administration on Independent Regulatory Authorities in Indian and/or Comparative Perspectives. Articles on the topic are solicited from willing contributors for this year’s Special Issue in 3000 to 5000 words along with an abstract of around 150 to 200 words latest by March 31, 2018.

Theme Note for IJPA Special Issue 2018

Independent Regulatory Authorities in Indian and/or Comparative PerspectivesWhat is the cause-effect puzzles in independent regularity authorities (IRAs)? In other words, why IRAs?

First, the causal nexus. The purpose could be the desire to liberalise, constitutionalise, and federalise the system of majoritarian democracy as was the case in the US Constitution (1787) and The Federalist (1787) authored by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, among the makers of the American Constitution. Moreover, the move towards IRAs may also be pushed by governmental conflict of interest, overload, and dysfunctionality as it happened in the wake of the crisis of welfare states and social democratic regimes as well as those with considerable social policy expenditures in various parts of the world in the late 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. It all gathered momentum with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War, and capitalist globalisation that followed. The IRAs became attractive in the context of the transition from government to governance and in the quest for mutual autonomies of the government, the civil society, and the market, their accountable and transparent functioning in network governance, and their non-partisan administration.

We begin with the following two propositions regarding the Independent IRAs: (i) although they are common to both the presidential and presidential-federal governments and parliamentary and parliamentary-federal governments, they are more in tune with the latter; and (ii) their incidence has tended to multiply in all types of political systems since the onset of privatisation and globalisation during the 1980s and 1990s.

Patterned after the British parliamentary and Commonwealth parliamentary-federal models in Canada and Australia, India was not particularly enamoured of the IRAs. India thus largely relied on parliamentary control of the executive through parliamentary debates, questions, committees, confidence vote in the government of the day to ensure accountability, transparency, and efficiency of governmental performance.

Yet, some mechanisms of regulatory exercise were put in place in the Constitution and the laws of the land. The examples are the Election Commission of India under Article 324 of the Constitution for legislative elections at Union and State levels and the presidential and vice-presidential elections, Union and State Public Service Commissions for civil service recruitments under Articles 323 to 315, the Auditor and Comptroller General of India for accounts of both orders of governments under Articles 148 to 151, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under RBI Act, 1934, with subsequent amendments. Beyond these instrumentalities, there is of course the final recourse to the judiciary and the popular electoral mandate and its renewal quinquennially or mid-term.

The Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC-II) Report (2008) gives a list of six major professional self-regulating authorities operating in India, each formed under respective Acts of Parliament (year within brackets): Bar Council of India (1961), Medical Council of India (1956) presently being reformed as Medical Commission of India, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (1949), Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (1959), Institute of Company Secretaries of India (1980), and Council of Architecture (1972) (Government of India 2008:113). The ARC-II has recommended making their council as well as committee more inclusive by supplementing the professional members by lay members from the civil society at large to be nominated by the government in consultation with the concerned regulatory agency.

Another wave of IRAs came with a rush in the early 1990s. In 1991, there came the paradigm shift in the economic policy regime towards neoliberalism (bureaucratic deregulation, privatisation, and business liberalism nationally and globally) under the P.V. Narasimha Rao Congress minority government. The effects of these economic reforms are evident in areas such as industrial licensing, financial sector reforms in banking, stock market, telecommunication, electricity, companies affairs, security and exchange, insurance, coal, petroleum, mass media, etc. In all these sectors new IRAs have mushroomed under parliamentary statutes with varying degrees of autonomy. Various sectors of national economy, which were earlier managed under direct ministerial and bureaucratic control, have now been placed under IRAs, reporting to the Parliament annually (Singh 2003:215-222). Among the new financial regulatory bodies in India, besides the RBI whose origins go back to British India, there are Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority

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( PFRDA), Forward Markets Commission (FMC), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), Project Exports Promotion Council of India, Foreign Direct Investment Promotion Board (FDIPB), etc. In various sectors of national economy such regulatory authorities include Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), etc.

An examination of various Acts under which the IRAs are set up would show that the most autonomous among them is the CERC. The Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998, set up the CERC as a corporate body consisting of a chairperson and three other members appointed by the Union government on the recommendation of an independent selection committee. The incumbents of CERC are required to be persons with knowledge and experience and capability in the field of engineering, law, economics, commerce, finance or management. The chairperson is to be appointed from amongst persons who are or have been judges of the Supreme Court or Chief Justices of a High Court. All appointments to the commission are to be made only after consultation with the Chief Justice of India. The Act takes care to ensure the independence and autonomy of the chairman and members of the commission by guarantying them security of service and emoluments. The Act also enables the state governments to set up State Electricity Regulatory Commissions to ensure their integrity and autonomy to depoliticize the pricing and distribution of power. Moreover, in domain of monetary policy the Reserve Bank of India has also enjoyed exceptional autonomy, though a recent amendment to the RBI Act has made the position of the Governor from being the arbiter to the first among the equals in the expanded Monetary Policy Committee chaired by him and consisting of the RBI Governor, Deputy Governor, and Executive Director plus three Independent directors appointed by the Union government based on nominations by a committee comprising the Cabinet secretary, RBI Governor, Economic Affairs Secretary, and three experts from the field of economics/banking/monetary policy. Other IRAs consist of experts in the concerned technical field or administration but lack the mandatory judicialisation via a chair with high judicial background.

The United States presidential-federal system, featuring (i) separation of powers among the Congress, Presidency, and the Supreme Court, (ii) federal division of powers between the national and state governments, (iii) a powerful federal second chamber in the Senate; and (iv) the consequential multiplied effects of institutional checks and balances, is the locus Classicus of the IRAs in comparative government and politics. Four distinct phases of the evolution of IRAs in the USA are often delineated. First, there is the late 19th/early 20th century creation of the first independent regulatory commission, the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Second, the New Deal era witnessed increasing number of federal agencies, many of them regulatory in nature and geared towards economic recovery from the Great Economic Depression; several have continued to examine the role of competition in various industries. Third, there was the rise of social regulatory policy in the 1960s and 1970s relating to health, safety or equal opportunity. Fourth, there came the era of de-regulation and various attempts at regulatory reforms that began during the Ronald Regan presidency during the 1980s and after (Furlong 2008: 1694-1697).

In the United Kingdom, as elsewhere, the trend of public service reforms during the late 1970s , 1980s, and 1990s known collectively as ‘new’ public management, has also brought about the phenomenon of what the political scientists have called the ‘regulatory state’, meaning a state with an operating philosophy of acting ‘at a distance’ on policy domains. Obsessed with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, the state in the UK seeks to act via instruments such as accounting and audit. Mischael Power (1997) calls the British version of this phenomenon ‘the audit society’ mentality.

References Furlong, Scott, ‘Regulatory Policy: Role and Importance’, Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public

Policy, ed. Evan M.Berman, New York: Taylor& Francis, 2008: 1694-1697.Government of India. Second Administrative Commission, Ninth Report: Social Capital: A Shared destiny,

Chapter 5; ‘Self-Regulatory Authorities, pp. 113-130. New Delhi, August 2008. (Chair M. Veerappa Moily). Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987, 2nd edition.

First published 1787.Power, Michael. The Audit Society: Rituals of Verifications, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1997.Singh, M.P. ‘Economic Liberalization and Federalization in India: Mutually Reinforcing. Responses to Global

Integration,’ in Lazar, Harvey, Hamish Telford, and Ronald Watts, eds. The Impact of Global and Regional

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