Public Policies in India

Public Policies in India by Sudarshana Jaiman

1. Public policies in India - Sudarshana Jaiman

2. Public Policy: An Introduction Public policy can be generally defined as a system of laws, regulatory measures, courses of action, and funding priorities concerning a given topic promulgated by a governmental entity or its representatives. Policy Formulation Policy Education Policy Implementation Policy Monitoring Policy Impact Stages in Public Policy Process:

3. Types of Public Policies Welfare & Development Public policies Regulatory Public policies Distributive & Re-distributive policies

4. Importance of Public Policies As an academic discipline, public policy brings in elements of many social science fields and concepts, including economics, sociology, political economy, program evaluation, policy analysis, and public management, all as applied to problems of governmental administration, management, and operations. Policies enable the public to measure the achievements of the government we use theory and evidence to design, implement and evaluate policies to improve living conditions for the citizens of our country and the world.

5. Major Public Policies in India National Agriculture Development Programme / Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana Agriculture Policy: A Vision for 2020 Consolidated FDI Policy, 2010 National Manufacturing Policy, 2011 National Broadband Policy, 2004 National Policy on Information Technology, 2011 National Policy on Education, 1986 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan - Education For All Policy Statement on Environment and Development National Skill Development Policy National Population Policy of 2000 Rural Electrification Policy National Policy for Empowerment of Women National Urban Sanitation Policy National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy National Tourism Policy, 2002.

6. Issues in Public Policies: Structural: 1. too much fragmentation 2. too much implementation workload on policy-makers 3.  poor structure and process for involving outside experts and stakeholder Competence: 1. Inadequate professionalism of the policy-making staff 2. inadequate competence of the specialists

7. Remedies in Public Policies: Reduction in Fragmentation Separating policy-making from implementation and decentralizing implementation authority Improving integration and the flow of knowledge from outside Government Improving the competence and skills of policy-making manpower

8. Recent trends in public policies Change In Education policy Increased FDI Self- sustainable policy

9. Thank you