The Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) was inaugurated recently in the Capital by public intellectual and author Gurcharan Das and chairperson, 15th Finance Commission of India and former MP, Rajya Sabha NK Singh.

The school intends to develop a new class of policy leaders for India by equipping policy professionals with knowledge, skills, wisdom and ethics to understand, design and implement local solutions to India’s enduring policy and governance challenges.

The school will offer one-year full-time programme in public policy, design and management to candidates with two-three years of relevant professional experience and will offer full waiver on fees to 20 per cent of enrolled students. The first session has already started from August 19, 2018.

The one-year, Master’s equivalent programme will be a blended design of theory, perspectives and best-practices of public policy from around the world, augmented with technical, managerial and leadership skills. 

Dr Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, the founding dean of the School and Member of the Academic Council, said: “The one-year programme is designed as a Master's equivalent programme for working professionals and recent graduates.”

Dr Parth J Shah, Member of the Governing Council, said: “ISPP is imagined as a 21st century academic institution. It will focus on excellence and deep specialisation in public policy. It will be talent heavy and asset-light, that is, it will invest in students and source the very best faculty from around the world and avoid making heavy infrastructural investments.

It is also the institutional successor to several years of public policy programs that our founding council have conceptualised and run in various forms in colleges and universities across the country. Across these programmes, we have trained 8000 students who have gone on to successful policy careers in India and the world.”

For further details, log on to www.ispp.org.in.