About the Program
Have you ever wondered what makes a policy work?
Have you thought about the reason for India still being poor?
Have you ever questioned what the role of the government should be?
“When the Panchayat Raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.” – Mahatma Gandhi
The Centre for Civil Society (CCS) in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) South Asia is pleased to announce Vaad Vivad on “Decentralisation and Panchayati Raj System” in India scheduled on 23rd April 2023, New Delhi.
About the Program
Have you ever wondered what makes a policy work?
Have you thought about the reason for India still being poor?
Have you ever questioned what the role of the government should be?
Centre for Civil Society introduces a new publication, Ward Power: Decentralised Urban Governance. The book is being released with the company of Dr. P.L. Sanjeev Reddy, Director, IIPA, and Mr. T.S.R. Subramanian, former Cabinet Secretary of India. The book is edited by Dr. Parth J Shah, President of Centre for Civil Society, and Makarand Bakore, a Research Associate at the Centre.
The School Choice Campaign hosted a dialogue on “School Board Exams: Assessment or Harassment?” following the recent announcement made by Mr Kapil Sibal to scrap 10th board exams as one of the innovative reforms in the education sector. The brings together two prominent educational experts representing the government and private perspectives- Mrs Gauri Ishwaran, Founder and Principal of Sanskriti School and Dr Janaki Rajan, former Director of SCERT Delhi and Professor of Education Jamia Milia University.
School Choice Campaign brought together the fiercest of the spokespersons of the two major parties concerned- the parents and the schools- Mr Surinder Gupta, President, Unrecognised Schools Association, Mr Ashok Aggarwal, Advocate and Advisor, Social Jurist and Mr S L Jain, President, National Progressive Schools Conference to discuss representation of parents on the schools’ Management Committees (SMCs) as well as more transparency in the management of private schools.
The School Choice Campaign (SCC) hosts a panel discussion on The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2009, which guarantees education as a fundamental right to children between the ages of 6 to 14. The panel of experts represented the fields of education, development work and public policy to provide a multidimensional perspective on the issues surround the Right to Education.
The School Choice Campaign (SCC) hosts a panel discussion on School Admission Reforms in order to address the acute problems faced by the parents and well as the grievances of the schools in order to evolve long-term solutions to existing problems in school admission process in Delhi.
The School Choice Campaign and Penguin Books launches Professor James Tooley’s new “The Beautiful Tree-A Personal Journey into How the world’s Poorest People are Educating Themselves,” as part of the dialogue series. The book launch is followed by a panel discussion between the author, Mr Madhav Chavan, Co-founder and Director, Pratham; Ms Reshma Lohia, Correspondent for Lohia’s Little Angels School, Hyderabad; and Mr Ashish Rajpal, CEO, idiscoveri on quality education (delivery, implementation and monitoring) in India.
The School Choice Campaign brings together three experts, Mr Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT Ltd and Chairman of CII National Committee on Education, Ms Rashmi Krishnan, Additional Director, Directorate of Education (Delhi) and Director, SCERT and Mr Oscar Fernandes, Senior Leader, Indian National Congress and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development to discuss the assessment of the nation’s preparedness for the Challenges Facing India’s Education Section.