MA (Public Policy and Sustainable Development)

MA (Public Policy and Sustainable Development)

Programme details

Policy decisions by government officials at all levels are required to be increasingly multifaceted especially in the light of economic reforms and the need to ensure that decision-making contributes to sustainability in the development process. Private not-for-profit and for-profit business entities also have a bearing on development-related policy decisions. To respond effectively to these issues, civil servants and those engaged in the non-governmental sectors, need to (1) be trained in the politics and economics of public policy and in sophisticated methods and tools of analysis, and (2) refresh their knowledge of the substantive development issues at hand.

The M.A. (Public Policy and Sustainable Development) - programme, encompasses a comprehensive and well-structured two-year curriculum on public policy formulation, analysis, evaluation, management, and links with development concerns. With a judicious mix of courses covering basic concepts, a practical orientation, and new methodologies and tools, the programme intends to allow future leaders in the governments and other agencies to enhance their awareness of the overall public policy environment in which they have to make decisions. The programme is also intended to sharpen the understanding of the effects that policy decisions have on political, economic, social, and environmental aspects in domestic and international domains.

I DoPT sponsored Government candidates

The programme is open to officers, of All India services, Central Services (organized & nonorganized, technical & non-technical), faculty members of State Administrative Training Insittutes and also officers of the State Civil Services (SCS) & Non-State Civil Services (NonSCS) subject to the following eligibility conditions.

(i) Length of service

Officers should have completed 5 years of Group ‘A’ service as on commencement of the programme.

(ii) Age The officers should have at least three years remaining service after completion of the programme.

(iii) Earlier Training

The officers should not have undergone a training programme of 12-weeks or more duration in India during a period of 5 years preceding the date of commencement of this programme. Further the officers should not have undergone a programme of training abroad of more than 2-weeks in preceding 2-years, more than one month in preceding 3-years or more than six months in the preceding 5-years.

Selection process

DoPT sponsored Government candidates

Selection of potential participants from the civil services consists of two stages. In the first, applications will be screened by the Department of Personnel and Training based on appropriate eligibility criteria as defined by the department.

In the second stage, a selection committee constituted according to the rules of the TERI University (including a nominee of the Department of Personnel and Training), will interview the short-listed candidates. The committee will select up to 30 candidates. The list of the selected candidates will then be forwarded to the Department for processing as necessary.

Applications will be screened, and the shortlisted candidates will be interviewed, by the TERI University. The total number of candidates for the programme would not exceed 40 in any batch.

Other candidates

Graduates with a minimum experience of five years in any of the following sectors: government, regulatory bodies, industry, research/academic institutions, NGOs and donor/consultant organizations.

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