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IIM | Kashipur | CPPG

Introduction

The Center of Excellence on Public Policy

and Governmentis set up by the institute as

platform to serve as a bridge between

policymakers, government agencies, civil

society, industry and academia by

supporting scholarly research, public policy

and administration training programs, and

other capacity building activities at the

intersection of government and society

addressing some of the most important

public policy and governance issues. It

combines educational programs with

current research, training and advisory

services based on thematic public policy

analyses. The Center hosts a diverse team on internal faculty as well as visiting scholars

committed to interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching, and engagement

addressing topics such as public administration, law, gender, environment, education,

social engineering, migration, human rights, media, information society, conflict

resolution, transitional justice, business and good governance.

Indian Institute of Management Kashipuris set up by Ministry of Human Resource

Development, Government of India and belongs to elite leagues of top management

schools called IIMs in India. It has been set up with the objective of imparting quality

management education in all sectors including government ministries, department

and agencies in India and from abroad while sensitizing the participants towards the

needs of the society. The institute offers its flagship two-year Post Graduate Program

in Management (PGPM). The rigorous curriculum seeks to instill a passion for

knowledge and ability to apply that knowledge to real life scenarios. The institute has

launched customized training programs for government officials from all the three

organsexecutive, judiciary and legislative. It also offers Executive Fellow program

equivalent to PhD.



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Contents

Introduction ...............................................................1

Contents ......................................................................... 2

About Us ......................................................................... 3

Objectives ....................................................................... 3

Capacity Building Special program ................................. 4

Policy Perspectives in Cyberspace Management ........... 6

Social Media in Protests and Policy Change ................... 6

New Media: Reconstructing Our Ideas of Culture and Society 6

TRAINING ........................................................................ 7

Managerial Training of Judges of Uttarakhand State (India) 7

Lebanese American UniversityIIM Kashipur Continuing Education 8

The Team ........................................................................ 9

Contact us: .................................................................... 14



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About Us

The Center of Excellence on

Public Policy and Government

is set up by the institute asplatform to serve as a bridge

between policymakers,

government agencies, civil

society, industry and

academia by supporting

scholarly research, public

policy and administration

training programs, and other

capacity building activities at

the intersection ofgovernment and society

addressing some of the most

important public policy and governance issues. It combines educational programs with

current research, training and advisory services based on thematic public policy

analyses. The Center hosts a diverse team on internal faculty as well as visiting scholars

committed to interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching, and engagement

addressing topics such as public administration, law, gender, environment, education,

social engineering, migration, human rights, media, information society, conflict

resolution, transitional justice, business and good governance.

Objectives

Pursue a vigorous in disciplinary program of education, research and trainingto address major public policy and governance issues via case studies, working

papers and reports, major forums, public debates, lecture series, and scholarly

conferences.

Offer quality advisory services to various governments and organizations state, national and internationalto enhance capacity building efforts of the

concerned parties.

Host national and foreign government officials, visiting scholars and offercustomized training programs in various areas related to public policy and

government.

Bring issues to the attention of a larger audience through regular interactionwith government officials, business leaders, policymakers, scholars, and the

media.

Publish edited volumes with contributions from a variety of scholars on majorissues.

Create new scholarly expertise by offering opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral research.



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Develop, in the long run, regular and short-term formal and distance learningacademic programs on Public Policy and Governance covering a diverse set of

subjects.

Initiate innovative demand-driven and policy-oriented courses beyond thebusiness sector keeping in view the needs of the society, nation and the global

context.

Capacity Building Special program

South Asia in general has been home to several conflict situations and India in

particular has to deal with ethnic conflict and insurgencies over the years. Numerous

peace accords have been successfully in the past the country has systematically

evolved various strategies to leverage peace towards socio-economic development.

In order to do so it has gathered a substantial mass of knowledge resources on

capacity building of government agencies and officials who can lead a sustained effort

towards public service focusing on conflict-affected low-income communities who are

ravaged by prolonged warand psycho-social impacts

of violence, specially the

women and children in

conflict zones.

Learning from the effects

of conflict on household

welfare, behavior and

poverty, the Center

designs specific capacitybuilding programs

incorporating new insights

into how people live and

interact in contexts of

conflict and violence, and

how government institutions best support them and mange a post-conflict

administrative recovery initiative.

Through Capacity Building Special Programs, the Center offer professional training in

public administration and management to strengthen a more efficient and equitableservice delivery, with a specific focus on creating an in-country pool of expertise for

trained public servants enriched in latest development management skills and

administrative skills.

Coming from years of practical experience in public administration and service

delivery in critical environments that abounds in the region, the Center adapts its

training programs for the target countries and specific situations. We use our research

findings to help develop policies and practices that strengthen peoples efforts to

secure their own lives and livelihoods. Our research themes in Capacity Building

Programinclude:



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Welfare and livelihood security in post-conflict environmentWe conduct need-based and field-based study of post-conflict scenarios to

understand: (a) Adaptability of stakeholders to negotiate impacts of violence

on their livelihoods, wellbeing and security; (b) Potential for re-engineering of

the local institutions and systems to be transformed through processes of

post-conflict reconstruction and (c) Impact of violence on the local economic,social and political environment that may influence the effectiveness of post-

conflict interventions.

Governance, institutional re-engineering for developmentThis research investigates the forms of local governance that emerge in the

midst of post-conflict situations, and how these forms affect the livelihoods of

individuals and communities living in the area.

Long-term human capital outcomes in post-conflict scenarioRecent research has shown that the effects of insecurity and conflict on unborn

babies and young children may be irreversible and affect their welfare

throughout their lives. Yet we know little about what people, communities and

the international community can do to protect children and their mothers. Our

work informs more effective long-term public health interventions and

programming in fragile and conflict affected situations. It provides new ideas

and evidence to give greater traction to policymakers and practitioners in

improving the lives of the most vulnerable.

Synergy between peace and developmentIn recent years development and security have been seen connected closely in

various past cases of reconstruction and reconciliation. Under this theme, we

undertake baseline studies to examine whether there exists a conscious effort

to bring synergies among security administration and development actors in a

given area.



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Policy Perspectives in Cyberspace Management

Management of information and communication technology (ICT) based

communication systems, especially with the advent of web-based platforms like social

media and micro-blogs, has come to the center of attention in the recent years. The

fact that any information can be instantly disseminated to tens of thousands of

people, and further have the same information spread exponentially by them, makesdigital media a very powerful tool. Hence, governments, corporate houses and the

academia are expressing the need for a well-grounded research study in this area that

can offer strategic, tactical assistance and recommendations covering the domains of

Information Technology, Telecommunications, and Media Management. With this in

mind, CPPGhas undertaken this study in collaboration with the internal faculty at IIM

Kashipur, on Indias Cyberspace Security, Social Network Monitoring, Government

Communication and Public Relation issues.

Social Media in Protests and Policy Change

In the recent past, across the world, Facebook and Twitter played a vital role in not

only expressing the collective anger of the public, it virtually became the melting pot

for expressing the cumulative anger, frustration and outrage against the failure of the

government in effectively responding to the incident. While political protests social

and political protest movements and the facilitating role of social media has been

debated, studied and discussed in various countries and contexts, the contribution of

a social media mediated protest and its impact on changes in national policy and law

has not been examined critically in the present case. CPPG has undertaken a

comprehensive analysis of existing legal provisions and constitutional safeguards that

exists in India and other countries, the regulatory mechanisms that prevails upon thesocial networks and goes beyond the catalytic role of the social networks in such

protests in order to examine the impact of social networks in legal and policy change

processes.

New Media: Reconstructing Our Ideas of Culture and Society

The understanding of player involvement is inextricably linked to the way the game

interacts with the player and the player interacts with the game through the ludic

interface. Video games as situated cultures have become an intrinsic part of the way

the digital universe is permeating the real world, thereby influencing andreconstructing our ideas of culture and society. CPPGs project on New Media is an

innovative area of research in society and communication that will examine the

changing nature of player involvement in videogames with respect to existing and

emerging technologies of gameplay and the synergies which exist between the ludic

interface and narrative structure of videogames. The element of performativity in

gaming is also crucial to our understanding of how a game unfolds, both in terms of

its ludic specificities and narrative qualities. The idea of the puppeteer is all the more

relevant now, with video game consoles of the eighth generation introducing

gameplay where the player herself becomes the ludic interface.



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TRAINING

Managerial Training of Judges of Uttarakhand State (India)Justice Sabharwal, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India (2007) in hisarticle My Dream of an Ideal Justice Dispensation System suggested that

introducing case and court managements with other measures are necessary

for speedy and affordable quality justice. He also recommended that the

training needs of judges and judicial staff needs to include court and case

managements besides methods to improve their skills in hearing case, taking

decisions and writing judgments. Thirteenth Finance Commission Report of

Government of India (2009) suggested engagement of professionally qualified

court managers for improving case disposal.

Uttarakhand Judicial and Legal Academy, India commissioned an in-service

training program for the Judicial Officers of the state to provide managerial

and administrative training to the judges of district judiciary. The first batch of

thirty-four judges were trained from 9 to 13 Feb 2014. Thirty-four judges were

trained in the first batch and they enjoyed participatory method of training

conducted by the internal faculty of CPPGas well as external resource persons.

Development Program on Islamic Banking & Finance

Recognizing the growing interest in interest-free banking popularly termed as Islamic

banking in various parts of the world, especially in counters where a large population

of Muslims live, we have launched a special training program on Islamic Banking &

Finance (IBF). The first training was organized in August, 2013 in New Delhi, The

program is the first such executive course offered by a leading management school in

the country on Islamic banking, which is considered the largest alternative financial

system in the world today, growing at double digit growth rates with a presence in 75

countries and a total size of approximately of $2 trillion. IIM Kashipur decided to offer



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the programme in view of the huge interest in this subject among various sections and

the growing demand for Islamic finance and banking solutions in the country.

According to Prof Zafar U Ahmad, from Lebanese-American American University,

Beirutattended the program as a Guest of Honor. According to him - The programme

generated substantial interest and the

participants. The search for alternatives toconventional interest-based banking has

raised many questions around the world.

In the aftermath of the global financial

crisis that we encounter today, a number

of alternative ways are being discussed.

Islamic Banking which is basically

interest-free banking has thus attained

global acceptance in many countries.

During the prgaram, the participantswere introduced to key concepts and

principles of IBF including a detailed

overview of the rules governing all IBF

products and their practical applications besides developing an understanding of the

global IBF industry, its key growth drivers, ongoing developments and challenges

faced. Participants were able to identify the relative strengths of the IBF system in

comparison to the conventional interest based system and will have learn about new

growth sectors and opportunities in IBF industry worldwide and in India. The

programme were delivered jointly by IIM Kashipur with their knowledge partner

Infinity Consultants, Bangalore.

Lebanese American UniversityIIM Kashipur Continuing Education

The Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut has proposed to conduct its

forthcoming Continuing Education Program (CEP) with CPPG. Led by Prof Zafar U

Ahmad of LAU, the India Immersion Program brings together a number of

stakeholders as follows:

Indian Chamber of Commerce New Delhi State Chamber of Commerce NOIDA Chamber of Commerce Gurgaon Chamber of Commerce

The major aim of the program is to bring to the foreign students the story of growth

and opportunity that emerges from countries like India as one of the fastest growing

economies in the world with a sustained annual growth of 8-9%. This program aims at

describing and analyzing the key managerial and entrepreneurial challenges for

international and multinational firms across India. It will deepen their understandings

of the managerial realities of business enterprises extending internationally, and

increase their ability to deal systematically with the strategic and operating issues,problems, and opportunities facing them.


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Publications

Many international standards, treaties,declarations and resolutions recognize

womens rights as human rights andspecifically condemn violence against

women. These instruments apply at alltimes in war and peace, in poverty

and wealth, in sickness and health, andthroughout the life cycle. Under allconditions, women have a right tolives of dignity and safety. Today

more than ever we must hold on tothe solid human rights frameworkthat has been built over decades.

Ban Ki-moonUnited Nations Secretary-General

A key challenge facing the overall womens rights scenario in any remote

region like Northeast India is availability of trained lawyers in local courts

to assist the aggrieved women to fight their rights violation cases or

otherwise guard their interests in a dispute. Such legal services,

embracing both individual access to justice and public interest law

transcending individual needs, contribute to the rule of law, good

governance, human rights, empowerment of the poor and poverty

alleviation.

CPPG has been instrumental in producing a resource book that may be used as aWomens Rights Lawyers Handbook or a manual which is readily available for

adoption by law schools to conduct similar programs and also act as a ready-reckoner

for the lawyers, police officers, administrators, corporate human resource managers

and chief executives of organizations. The contents of the resource book contains

training materials used at the training workshop, individual research studies by the

authors and a compilation of some important reference documents from difference

sources. The Book mainly covers issues like social security legislations, free legal aid,

constitutional remedies, marriage laws, separation, divorce, maintenance, offences of

dowry, violence against women, rights at work place, sexual harassment at work place,

Vishaka Guidelinesetc.



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The Team

Prof Somnath Ghosh

Professor of Organization Design and Institutional Development specialist

With a Ph. D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he was VisitingFellow, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell

University (USA) where he worked with Professor William

Foote Whyte, the legendary researcher, scholar and author in

Cornells Program for Employment and Workplace System

(PEWS). He has also held regular faculty positions at IIM

Lucknow, Bangalore, Indore; International Management

Institute and Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. He also does

occasional teaching at IIM Ahmedabad, and abroad. His consulting and

institutional development experiences both in the for-profit and development

sector are wide and many. Among his over twenty assignments, he has consulted

in the areas of compensation management, organization design and development,

HR systems and work practice changes.

In the arena of institutional development, he was World Bank consultant for two

of Indias largest public sector organizations, viz. National Thermal Power

Corporation and Coal India on institutional strengthening with respect to

resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) of project affected people. He was also Lead

Consultant to Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Government of India, for

Improving Delivery System for Artisans Livelihoods. For British Governments

Department for International Development and Public Health Foundation of India,

he did separate studies with respect to the design and delivery of public health

system in AP. Very recently again, he was World Bank consultant for

Strengthening & Transforming Institutions for Management of R&R for

government of Andhra Pradesh.

Prof Baharul Islam

Chair, Center for Public Policy & Government

Dr K M Baharul Islam has been teaching and researching in

the area of Communication, Development, Information

Technology policy and legal issues for more than two

decades. A senior expert in Communication for

Development (C4D) and ICT for Development (ICT4D), he

has also taken keen interest in educational planning and

management, e-Government strategies, cyberspace

management and telecom regulations. Besides teaching

and research, his professional assignments included development of national

strategic plans for and evaluation of ICT programs in Asian and Sub-Saharan

African countries. Much of Dr Islams recent research is based on his extensive

works with UN agencies. Starting as a Consultant for UNESCO in Cambodia in 1998,

he later worked on ICT Policy, Plans and e-Government Strategies for Sub-SaharanAfrican countries and regional economic groups under the UN Commission for



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Africa (UNECA) during 2003-2006. He developed e-Government Strategies and

National ICT plans for several countries. In 2006-2007, Dr Islam served under

UNESCAP, Bangkok to conduct an ICT Access Survey in the Asia-Pacific region. He

was working for African Development Bank as their Mid-Term NICTSP Review

Consultant in Mauritius (2010-11).

He has published widely with more than eight books and 30+ papers/articles to hiscredit. He is a public speaker, debater, TV commentator and communication

specialist. He participated at the BBC World Debate in 2006 that brought him to

international development communication limelight. He has written the chapter

on ICT and Poverty Reduction for the first Encyclopaedia of Digital Governance

published in 2006.

He holds LLM in Telecom and Information Technology Laws from the University of

Strathclyde (UK), MA (English) from AMU, Aligarh. He did his PhD from the Tezpur

University (India) and Post-Doctorate from Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok)

on new technologies in education. Besides he has also done B.Ed. specializing inEducational Planning and Administration.

Prof Abinash Panda

Associate Professor of HR & Organizational Behavior

Prof. Abinash Panda is a graduate from International

University of Japan (IUJ) and is a Fellow of Management

Development Institute. He also has a Masters degree in

Computer Applications from Regional Engineering College

(currently National Institute of Technology), Rourkela. He

has a rich and varied experience in corporate, academic

and research roles.

Prior to joining IIM Kashipur as a faculty member, he was with Adani group (Adani

Enterprise) as Associate Vice President, Learning and Development. The other

corporate assignments include General Manager, Leadership Development and

Talent Management with Suzlon Energy, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Tata

Management Training Centre (TMTC), Pune, and EDP officer with National

Panasonic India Private Limited.

Dr Panda was a faculty member in Organizational Behaviour Area with XLRI School

of Business Management and a Visiting Faculty with IIM, Indore. He was the co-

principal investigator of Tata-CCL joint research projects like Lessons of Experience

(LOE), Bridging Cultural Boundaries (BCB) and Leadership Gap study, conducted in

India.

He has published around more than 40 research papers in various international

and national journals He has also presented a number of papers in various national

and international conferences including Academy of Management.



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Dr Athiqul H Laskar

Motivational Trainer & Post-Conflict Reconstruction Specialist

Dr Laskar studied at University of Kansas and did his PhD

in Communication from Pacific Western University,

Honolulu, Hawaii campus, USA. He was training at US Army

Military schools and served in US army around USA,Europe, Korea, and Japan. He served the US Army Service

as NATO Commander (Neighmagan, Holland Sector),

Europe and was a recipient of US Army Shadow box from

President Clinton.

Dr Laskar is a renowned motivational and life skill trainer who has trained several

students, employees, teachers, factory workers and trainees. Dr Laskar has taken

up the responsibility to assist individuals in professional, personal enhancement

and fulfillment. He emphasizes on total development- intellectual, emotional,

physical, spiritual and social. Life skills, leadership skills, personality development,positive thinking, critical analysis, problem solving, stress management,

interpersonal skills, time management etc are some aspects handled by Dr Laskar.

His powerful, informative and persuasive speeches motivate people instantly.

People and corporate organizations are extremely benefited by Dr Laskars global

expertise, knowledge, skill and experience at conferences, seminars and events.

Dr Laskars expert mythologies including the Patron Modular Approach (PMA)

have helped several trainees, students, workers and corporate employees to

deliver their best. Whether individuals or business organizations, Dr Laskars

motivational training would surely boost the performance levels.

Subimal Bhattacharjee

Expert in Defence Studies

Mr Bhattacharjee brings with him ample experience in defence

business planning and strategy. He is very familiar with the GD

product line across aerospace, naval systems, land platforms

and information systems and technology. His knowledge of the

Indian defence market and the defence procurement process

qualify him to play a key role in promoting General Dynamics

interests in India.

In addition to his work in the defence sector, Mr. Bhattacharjee is a widely

recognized expert on cyber security and critical infrastructure protection. He has

also been a member of key governmental advisory panels and industry task forces.

He is a well-known columnist and writes and speaks on issues related to security

and technology policy issues and has more than 200 published articles and papers

on the subject. Mr. Bhattacharjee is in the Advisory Board of the US renewable

company Astonfield and a Director in the Board of Centrum Capital Limited. He

holds a post-graduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Delhi. He is

widely travelled and has keen interest in community matters and sports.



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Sarwar Raza, FCS & LL.B

Legal Trainer and Administrative Reform Specialist

Mr Sawrwar Raza is a Fellow of Institute of Company

Secretaries of India and he practiced as a Company Secretary

(PCS) from 2002 to 2010. He was admitted as an Advocate by

the Bar Council of Delhi in 2010 and since then he is practicingas Corporate Lawyer. As a company secretary he has handled

various matters relating to Companies Act, Income Tax Act,

Service Tax, FEMA, FCRA and various other corporate matters

including incorporation and post-incorporation compliances

of many Limited and Private Limited Companies including LIC Cards Services

Limited.

Presently practicing as Corporate Lawyer he has developed reputation in areas of

Corporate and Commercial Laws, Companies Act, Foreign Exchange Management

Act (FEMA), Taxation Laws, Trademarks, Civil Laws. He represented various casesin Company Law Board, Taxation Tribunals and the High Court. He is an advisor to

Ministry of Finance and advising Specified Undertaking of UTI and UTI group. I also

advises Government of India on effective Corporate Social responsibility. He has

recently incorporated National Financial Holdings Company Limited, a company

wholly owned by Government of India under Ministry of Finance. Mr Raza taught

parts of Legal Aspects of Business course at IIM Kashipur as a Guest Faculty and

presently working on a joint text-book project on Corporate Law with the Institute.

Ms Nandita Roy

Media and Gender Specialist

Ms Roy has worked with National Geographic Channel,

India supervising a team comprising of three production

houses in Calcutta and one in Bombay. She handled

content editing of shows telecast in National Geographic

Channel and Fox Televison and creative head of dubbing

operations in West Bengal. She also taught at the

National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India.

She is doing a joint PhD at the Department of Media and Communication,

University of Leuphana, Germany and the Department of English, Jadavpur

University, Kolkata, India. She worked on a project entitled The Gender

Implications of the National Knowledge Commission Recommendations. She

worked with UNICEF on policy documents and reports on Education

Ms Roy directed, cinematographed and edited, Voices of Women from Mizoram,

a documentary on womens empowerment in Mizoram, India, 2011. The

documentary was screened at the National Workshop of a collaborative project

on Womens Empowerment and Education conducted by McGill University,

Canada and Jadavpur University. She was the Editorial Consultant for the

documentary on the story of Santhi Soundarajan, India titled Y cant I run? The

documentary was screened at Dialogues, the 5th Annual Calcutta LGBT Film &



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Video Festival in December 2011 and at Mumbai Queer Film Festival in May 2012.

Also a part of the documentary was screened at Jadavpur University, India in 2012,

and at University of Minnesota, USA, BABA Retreat, Japan and MGAHV, India in

2011 and at University of Bath, UK and the International Sport Law & Business

Conference in Istanbul University, Turkey in 2010.

Contact us:

Prof K M Baharul Islam, PhDChair, Center for Public Policy & Government,Indian Institute of Management Kashipur,Bazpur Road, Kashipur 244713Uttarakhand, INDIA

Tel (Direct) Office : +91 5947 262177Fax: +91 5947 262820Cell: +91 83928-11111Email: [email protected], [email protected] ID: kmbislam

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