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Centre for Civil Society was set up in August 1997. In the past 25 years, CCS has carved a niche position for itself in the policy space. We, in our journey, have advocated for choice, accountability and prosperity through market based solutions.
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Research
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Enabling Research through Research Management

The field of research management (RM) has emerged as a tool to create an enabling research environment within universities, where researchers can get support, including but not limited to management of their research grant, getting legal and technology transfer-related advice and finding ways of increasing the impact of their research and innovation.

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Model Service
Delivery Act

The concept of Citizens Charters were introduced in 1997 across various levels of government, in both the Union and States. However, these charters remained ineffective due to their voluntary nature. The improvements in technology and internet penetration in India made for a fertile situation legislatie on timely delivery of services, including those delivered electronically.

A Teary Tale of Onion Exports

Onions are a very important crop for both Indian farmers and consumers. Whenever there are price fluctuations in the market, the Government changes the rules on the trade of onions.
Policy Training
UPCOMING CERTIFICATE COURSE

Austrian Economics Seminar
Advanced Online Certificate Course

“Austrian” economics is not a specific field within economics, nor is it a set of conclusions. It is a different approach to understanding the social reality that dissents from the mainstream method, theory, and policy.
Programs
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Project Bolo English

For the academic year 2022-23, 300 schools including both budget private schools and semi-government schools registered with our program. We started working with learning centres for out-of-school children in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. The team also completed teacher training for ~4000 teachers who received spoken English application skills.
Publications
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Preparing the Fields for Genetically Modified Crops in India

By 2050, the world will need to produce 60-70% more food than what it is already producing to feed an anticipated population of 9.3 billion people.
Events
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Online Certificate Workshop on ‘Fundraising & Grant Management’

These key aspects include - understanding the fundraising cycle, different approaches, and methods for fundraising, and understanding the best practices for grants and contract management.
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Venkatesh ‘Venky’ Narayanamurti

Venkatesh Narayanamurti is the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus at Harvard. He was formerly the John L. Armstrong Professor and Founding Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. In his capacity as an American scientist, public policy leader and academic administrator, he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities, and industry.

Thomas Barlow

Thomas Barlow serves as a distinguished adviser on knowledge investment, research policy, and analytics to a range of technology-intensive companies, government agencies, and universities globally.

He is the author of three books on science and innovation, and publisher of the Barlow Report, a biennial resource for higher education institutions in Australia and East Asia. He has also been the science policy adviser to the Minister for Education, Science and Training in the Australian Government.

Professor Swaminathan Sivaram

Dr. Sivaram, a distinguished alumnus of IIT-Kanpur (MSc) earned his PhD in Chemistry and DSc (h.c) from Purdue University, USA and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Currently, he is an Honorary Professor and INSA Senior Scientist of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

Sanjay Sarma

Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the Vice President Open Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide.

Samir K. Brahmachari

Professor Samir K. Brahmachari completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is the largest publicly funded organisation involved in scientific and industrial research with 37 constitutional laboratories across India.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan is one of the seven founders of Infosys and served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. In 2014, Kris co-founded Axilor Ventures, a venture capital platform for young entrepreneurs.

Kris is recognized as a global business and technology thought leader and was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a first-generation entrepreneur and global business leader with over four decades of experience in biotechnology. Fueled by her passion, she started her biotech journey in 1978 from her garage in India.

Today, that journey is changing lives for the better across the globe. She is regarded as an unconventional thinker with many firsts to her credit. Under her aegis, Biocon delivers on the promise of making medicines accessible and affordable to millions of patients worldwide.

Gagandeep Kang

Dr Gagandeep Kang (FRS) is a Professor of Microbiology in the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences of the Christian Medical College in Vellore. She currently serves on the Board of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and is the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.

DHARAMPAL FELLOWSHIP

Tue, 10/04/2022 - 15:43 5 Min Read

The Dharampal Fellowship Program is aimed at empowering affordable/budget private school teachers through training, networking sessions, and one-on-one interactions with education experts. It is an endeavour to provide teachers with the right techniques, skill set, and pedagogical tools for ensuring quality education to children in India.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tue, 10/04/2022 - 15:41 5 Min Read

Established in 2020, the Science & Technology (S&T) Policy vertical at the Centre for Civil Society is dedicated to driving transformative change in the field of science and technology through policy research, stakeholder engagement and outreach.

Mission

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