The following projects were carried out in internship held in 2015
Project titles are in no particular order
Economy, Finance & Business
| 1. Analysis of Trends in CSR activities, Outcome and Way Forward. |
| 2. Labour Law Reforms in Gujarat- Disseminating these to various stakeholders and facilitating their operationalisation. |
| 3. Pay commissions: Unaddressed issues: Productivity, Liberalization and Civil Service reform. |
| 4. Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) – for specific sector A. |
| 5. Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) – for specific sector B. |
| 6. Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) – for specific sector C. |
| 7. Role of Public Sector Banks and Public Institutions in Financial Inclusion and Problems Related to Non-performing Assets. |
| 8. Goods and Services Tax. |
| 9. Interface between IPR and competition law. |
| 10. Compulsory licensing of patents – Implications for Pharma Sector. |
Education, Skills Development
| 1. Commercialization of Education. |
| 2. Developing an educational programme to educate the workmen safe way to work. |
| 3. Effects of Mobile in Secondary and Higher Education. |
| 4. How do we measure learning outcome among the students of our school or any school. |
| 5. Education at Government Schools – Reality Check and Recommendations – Infrastructure, Teaching Standards. |
| 6. Mid-Day-Meal Scheme in Primary Schools – Analysis, Effects and Suggestions. |
| 7. Skill training/ vocational training – Reality Check and Recommendations – Infrastructure, Teaching Standards. |
| 8. School Drop-outs: Analysis, Effects and Suggestions. |
| 9. Making India a Technical Education Superpower. |
Government Schemes
| 1. Food Security Paradigm in India: Required Policy Changes. |
| 2. Financial Inclusion: opportunity and challenges: Jan Dhan Yojna. |
| 3. Evaluation of National Rural Livelihood Mission – Success and Hurdles. |
| 4. Evaluation of the impact of scrapping of Govt of India’s Central Sponsored Schemes on development priorities of the Centre and the states (sector specific). |
| 5. Identification of gaps in imp. social sector schemes and to make them more effective with people’s participation. |
| 6. Analysis of impact and efficiency of MNREGA. |
| 7. UID: Implementation Challenges. |
| 8. Improving the Public Storage and Distribution System. |
| 9. Disabled Registry for Haryana. |
| 10. Rationalization and Estimation of Social Security Pension beneficiaries. |
| 11. Evaluation of National Rural Livelihood Mision. |
| 12. How to improve the implementation of National Urban Health Mission services in slums? |
Infrastructure, Quality of Life
| 1. Improving the Quality of Life (Smart City: Prospects, Issues and Challenges). |
| 2. Improving the quality of Life – related to health |
| 3. Is Kerala a Role Model in the area of Health? |
| 4. Different models of solid waste management in relation to “Swachha Bharat Abhiyan”. |
| 5. Access to Low Cost Medicines and Alternative Solutions. |
| 6. Air Pollution, its impact, lessons from world and policy initiatives to curb it in cities of India. |
| 7. Intellectual Property Rights issues related to public health in India. |
| 8. Food and Drug Administration and empowering people. |
| 9. Environmental Studies & management of the Shimla Water Catchment Area, Kufri Zoo and the Chir Pheasantry Breeding centre at Chail. |
| 10. Environmental Studies & Management of the Great Himalayan National Park, Shamshi, Kullu. |
| 11. Mobile technology solutions for chronic care management of Diabetes. |
| 12. Implementing 24/7 water supply project in an Indian city. |
Land Management
| 1. A Comparative Study of the 1894, 2013 and proposed Land Acquisition Acts of India. |
| 2. Urbanization: the legal and administrative regimes. |
| 3. Land and Poverty Alleviation. |
| 4. Land acquisition-balancing the requirement of development viz-a-viz the rights of landlord-issues and way forward. |
National Security
| 1. Pakistan Studies – Domestic politics, Civil – Military relations. |
| 2. Terrorism & Islamic radicalism – implications for India. |
| 3. Afghanistan- Challenges of reconciliation & peace-making/ power sharing with Taliban. |
| 4. Bangladesh studies – Polarization in Politics & Hurdles democratic consolidation/ challenge of creeping Islamic radicalism. |
| 5. Impact of border conflict on Jammu villagers. |
| 6. Imperatives of a central database for national security. |
Police, Judicial Reforms
| 1. Judicial reforms in India. |
| 2. Private security and investigation services – Scope, Status and Coordination with state security apparatus. |
| 3. Filling Police Public Trust Deficit: What Needs to be done. |
| 4. 498a – Issues and challenges in Implementation to stop misuse. |
| 5. Effect of phychological stress on Police behaviour and efficiency. |
Power
| 1. Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution- Challenges and Opportunities. |
| 2. Solar Rooftop PV programme in Bangalore – challenges and financial modelling. |
| 3. SMART GRID in Bangalore and other metros – what’s holding a large scale rollout ? |
| 4. Rural Electrification. |
| 5. Power For All. |
| 6. Trends and Challenges in distribution of power. |
| 7. Civil Society to trap Solar Power. |
Professional Ethics
| 1. Ingredients of good leadership. |
| 2. Transparency in business to curb collusive corruption. |
| 3. Accountability and Transparency in Indian Railways. |
| 4. Taking transparency to the next level. |
| 5. Revamping Ineffective-systems which are a root cause of corruption and poor governance – Insights from modern thinking and Indian wisdom. |
| 6. Formulating a Code of Conduct for Builders in Residential Areas. |
Rural Development, Farmer Issues
| 1. Public Private Partnership in Rural Development. |
| 2. Housing for the rural poor. |
| 3. Alternative livelihood of Bidi workers- Economic analysis of opportunities and challenges. |
| 4. Basic Healthcare Facilities in Rural Areas and Slums. |
| 5. Ways to Protect the Farmers from Market and Ecological Vulnerabilities. |
| 6. Creating Unified Agriculture Market – Issues, Challanges and possible solutions. |
| 7. Strategy for Preventing Wastage of Perishable Goods. |
| 8. Farmers in India – Challenges, Problems and Solutions |
Governance, Service Delivery
| 1. E-enabling of various services delivered by Urban Bodies. |
| 2. The Impact of the NeGP (National e-Governance Plan) Programme launched in 2006-07. |
| 3. Improvement in administrative processes. |
| 4. New Pension Scheme 2004 – policy suggestions for improvement based on international practice. |
| 5. Promoting whistle-blowing for good governance. |
| 6. Public Perceptions about civil servants: Trends and suggested strategies to improve. |
| 7. GIS Framework for Governance w.r.t. Municipal Administration & land Records. |
| 8. Right to Information and Transparency. |
| 9. Decentralization: An Approach to Grassroots Governance. |
| 10. Role of IT in Land Record Management. |
| 11. Election Procedure and Efforts to Ensure Fair and Effective Election – Online Voting. |
| 12. Social Auditing: An Implementable Strategy to Ensure Good Governance. |
Social Problem
| 1. Eradication of extreme poverty. |
| 2. Comparative study of struggles of Blacks in the US with the Dalits in India. |
| 3. Impacts of Declining Child Sex Ratio on society. |
| 4. Implementing PNDT Act through online F-Form. |
| 5. Child Sexual Abuse in Government Institutions. |
| 6. Ensuring Social Inclusions of Disabled People. |
Transportation
| 1. Public Transportation System in India and the role of State Transport Undertakings. |
| 2. Local Train Network Improvements. |
| 3. Electronic toll tax collection system. |
| 4. Trend and Analysis of traffic accidents- controlling loss of Life and Limb. |
