21 January 2016: Regulatory Impact Assessment for Improving Regulation in India

Scott Jacobs
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates

Abstract:
Regulations have widespread impacts, which affect multiple stakeholder groups in different ways. A sub-optimal regulation has the potential to increase the cost of administration and compliance, raise complexity and uncertainty, and most importantly, limits the likelihood of achievement of its objectives. Therefore, estimating impacts of regulation is necessary.

Regulatory Impact Assessment is a process of systematically identifying and assessing the direct and indirect impacts of regulatory proposals, using consistent analytical methods. The talk will introduce RIA, its goals, and benefits experienced in countries that have successfully implemented the tool. The indispensible place of RIA in the regulatory reform package for India will be highlighted. The role of different stakeholder groups in promoting the adoption of RIA, building capacity and making India RIA ready will be discussed.

Date: January 21, 2016
Time: 04:30 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Hall, Ground Floor, R&T Building
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area,
New Delhi-110067(INDIA)

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Those who are interested may please confirm your participation to Mr. Bins Sebastian at bins.sebastian@nipfp.org.in latest by Wednesday, 20th January 2016

18 January 2016: Chennai Floods: Lessons for Urban Governance

Vikram Kapur
Prinicpal Secretary/Commissioner, Corporation of Chennai

Abstract:
The recent challenge of facing the Chennai floods and the government’s response to the same puts Mr Kapur in a unique position of being able to spell out how to build resilience in our cities against floods. He will speak from his knowledge and experience of facing the recent floods in Chennai and the associated governance challenges in responding to the situation. His brief talk will be followed by a conversation with the audience.

Date: January 18, 2013
Time: 07:00 P.M.

Venue:
Gulmohar Hall,
India Habitat Centre,
Lodhi Road,
New Delhi-110003(INDIA)

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14 January 2016: Why we Cheat: Experimental Evidence on Tax Compliance

Organised by:
Brookings India, New Delhi,
AURO University, Gujarat and
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi

Raymond Duch
Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS)

Date: January 14, 2016
Time: 04:30 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Hall, Ground Floor, R&T Building
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area,
New Delhi-110067(INDIA)

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Those who are interested may please confirm your participation to Mr. Bins Sebastian at bins.sebastian@nipfp.org.in latest by Wednesday, 13th January 2016

4-5 January 2016: International Conference on the Sociology of Elites in Contemporary India

Organised by:
Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), New Delhi
Sociology Department, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and
Institut Français in India (IFI), New Delhi

Conference Program

Date: January 4-5, 2016

Venue:
JNU Convention Centre,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi-110067 (India)

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17 December 2015: Monitoring Systems in Education A Study of 5 States in India

Kiran Bhatty, Priyanka Varma and Radhika Saraf
Centre for Policy Research

Abstract:
The study is an attempt to examine the government's system of monitoring schools. Monitoring forms one of the mechanisms by which performance of the education system is tracked, shortfalls identified and changes initiated in a timely fashion to ensure the core objectives of education. If, as is the case, quality is persistently declining, one of the questions that arise is: Are schools being monitored effectively? If they are, are they having the desired impact? If not, where do the shortfalls lie? Unfortunately, even as the criticality of monitoring for efficient service delivery is being widely acknowledged, there is very little information on how the system works, whether it feeds back into the planning and policy loop, and what are its constraints.

Placing the findings within a framework of institutional analysis, the study highlights incoherence in the bureaucratic structures of monitoring, lack of ownership of roles assigned to the monitors, and lack of community embeddedness at lower levels of the bureaucracy as factors contributing to ineffectual monitoring. 

Date: December 17, 2015
Time: 11:00 A.M.

Venue:
Conference Hall
Centre for Policy Research,
Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi–110021(INDIA)

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15 December 2015: Challenges of health policy and key recommendations in the Indian context

Peter Berman
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and
Jeffrey S. Hammer
Princeton University

Date: December 15, 2015
Time: 04:30 P.M.

Venue:
Ground Floor Conference Hall
R&T Building
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area,
New Delhi-110067(INDIA)

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Please confirm your participation at bins.sebastian@nipfp.org.in

8 December 2015: Free Market Solutions to Climate Policy and other Environmental Challenges

Julian Morris
Reason Foundation

Date: December 8, 2015
Time: 04:00 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Room, Ground Floor
Centre for Civil Society,
A-69 Hauz Khas,
New Delhi-110016(INDIA)

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