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tremendous impact on policy debates of national (albeit carrying out interdisciplinary research)
and international importance. Going forward, Deemed to be Univerisity to a full-fledged multi-
IGIDR will continue to stress on policy relevant disciplinary university / higher education
research by its faculty and students. institution (HEI). This requires fundamental
decisions to be taken by the institute on all aspects,
Right from the beginning IGIDR has had a including IGIDR’s mission and vision.
tremendous impact on policy debates of national
and international importance. Going forward, It is important to have a broader and at the same
IGIDR will continue to stress on policy relevant time well defined area where the institute should
research by its faculty and students. The Institute focus while planning to reorient and expand. The
will continue to publish the widely regarded India broad area of public policy is one such overarching
Development Report. The Institute will also theme, where the institute can leverage on its
encourage and provide all possible support to its current strength. Apart from economics, a good
faculty for participation in official policy making public policy HEI/university should have multiple
Committees of various Ministries. Besides, the departments such as, politics, international
Institute will continue to play a leading role in relations, demography, geography, law,
policy debates by organising thematic conferences management, statistics, and environmental studies
and workshops on its own and/or at the request of etc. Thus, expansion along these lines will ensure
various Government Ministries / policy making that we can become a multidisciplinary
bodies. Strengthening teaching and expanding HEI/university as envisaged in NEP but with great
outreach activities are part of the vision. synergy among the various departments.

One of the immediate challenges of the institute is In keeping with NEP-2020, the teaching
to align with the guidelines of the New Education programme has to be diversified broadly on two
Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) announced by the lines: (a) The first one is to start differentiated
government. degree programmes at the Masters level that have a
strong core in Economics but specialisation in
It lays down the government’s vision, approach and specific application fields. Examples include M.Sc.
the framework for the entire education sector from in Financial Economics and M.Sc. in Energy and
primary education to higher education. The NEP- Environment Economics; (b) Second one is to start
2020 has far reaching implications for IGIDR in a 4-year B.Sc. in Economics programme. In this
terms of its nature, scope, size, and academic regard, the Institute could consider some of the
programmes. Fundamentally, the NEP-2020 would ideas described in the NEP-2020 for 3-year and 4-
require IGIDR to transform from a single-discipline year undergraduate programmes.

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