STRATEGY • ORGANISATION • GOVERNANCE
Research Perspectives
- Designing the Future-Ready Government Organisation
Lead presentation by Dr. Rajnish Karki who specialises in strategy and organisation design. Dr. Karki has advised business groups, multinational corporations, professional firms and institutions, government and allied entities at the centre and in Uttarakhand. Discussants: Amb. Kanwal Sibal, former Indian Foreign Secretary; and Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC. Chair: Shri Gurcharan Das, author, Commentator, Public Intellectual.
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- Organising the Indian Government: Where We Stand, and Could
A recent Times of India news item – ‘Uttarakhand: Headmistress hires woman to teach in her place for Rs. 10,000/month, suspended’ – captures in many ways the current state of government organisation ... The six patterns in India’s government organisation are salient and hard to deny. They stand out singly, and together make for a concern and a compelling case for redesign or reconstruction. Most of the patterns are cultural, with deep roots and continuity, and are ephemeral enough to escape definition and attention.
- Re-Discovering Indian Chronology
The mainstream history of ancient India is anchored around an event and a text. Alexander’s attack is the event that is definitively dated to 325BCE, as marking the end of a nearly two year’s campaign here. The text is Arthashastra by Chanakya ... it is certainly inadequate for a comprehensive historical narrative … India’s history is currently mired in contradictions and controversies and often descends to partisanship, prejudices and polemics. This extends into the public domain and the teaching in schools and colleges.
- The Need to Re-Design IAS
The Indian Administrative Service forms the core of government establishment in the country. Although a small organisation, of just around four-thousand officers, it is the pivot for India’s over a million member civilian bureaucracy. Its scope of responsibility and complexity is breathtaking – spanning the sub-district to central secretary levels and across the routine civil administration, development programmes, policy, and government entities. The IAS, however, is ailing.
- Market or Business Friendly: The Axes of Inefficiency and Corruption
The election of mid-2014 was a watershed for India's political economy. It marked the shift and coming of age of a new polity, that reflects and builds upon the process of economic reforms since the early-1990s. A government that believes in markets and globalisation as a matter of conviction and is...
- A 7-Point Strategy for Uttaranchal
The state of Uttaranchal comes into being, when India as a nation and the world at large, are going through fundamental shifts in the premises of economic development.
- Designing Policy Initiatives in Emerging Economic Environment
Since the mid-1980s there is a perceptible shift in the role of the government from the 'doer - controller' to the 'facilitator - intervenor' vis-a-vis the industry. The experience of computer hardware industry in which the government role has always been of 'facilitator - intervenor' can hold important lessons for policy initiatives in the future.