DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

SSR PART-II
DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
2. Human Resource and Financial Mobilization for its action-research
based activities,
3. Practitioner and Academic Research Scholars needed on long-term basis,
4. Research Advisory Group and Research Support Group, and
5. Teaching and Capacity Building and Courses on Public Policy for
various target groups.
Opportunities
1. Demise of Planning Commission of India and establishment of NITI
Aayog,
2. Establishment of Centre for Public Policy & Good Governance by
Government of Uttarakhand,
3. Increased decentralisation of plan resources, absence of public policies at
the state level, especially in the State List and Concurrent List of the
Constitutions,
4. Emerging Mountain-Agenda, awareness about the value of Indian
Mountain Ecosystems and the focused attention that the Centre has
devoted to this major gap-area in public policy, and
5. Evolution of Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable
Development Goals , which have been the main focus of the Centre from
2011 onwards.
Challenges
1. Centre unable to follow-up the road-map indicated in its latest Annual
report, various Schools of the University not able to dock-up their
expansion using the Centres enabling activities,
2. Research losing its action-research steam due to Centre’s faculty not
mobilized on the basis of its emerging potential,
3. Gap between the demand generated by the IMI Programme and the
support generated by the Centre and its net-work Partners,
4. Teaching and Research work not in sync with the changing demand from
the state(s ), and
5. To cope up with the complex and specialized needs in the public sector
and inability to build in-house human resource capacity to address such
requirements.
52. Future plans of the department.
Short-Term/ Medium Term Plans:
To emerge as a unique, innovative and demand –driven Centre for addressing
the future needs in public policy domain, encompassing the fast growing
economy of states, as a collective in a federal set up and establish itself as a
solution-exchange for Centre –State relations, both in public domain and
private sector.
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