Last year at CCS Academy, we curated a platform for CCS alumni, young students and professionals to engage in themes and discussions around public policy; now popularly called Baithak: Conversations in Policy. Baithaks follow an open group discussion format where the speaker is also the moderator of the debate, the principal guide and the facilitator of free flow of information among all the participants.
About the Program
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.