ISB Bharti Institute, Goa government ink pact on policy formulation; to develop open data portal

NEW DELHI: The Indian School of Business’s Bharti Institute of Public Policy (BIPP), on Tuesday, signed an agreement with the Goa government on policy formulation.

The agreement was signed by the Goa director of planning statistics and evaluation, Vijay B Saxena, and the BIPP executive director, Ashwini Chhatre, in the presence of chief minister Pramod Sawant in Panaji.

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The BIPP will act as a knowledge partner and facilitate the government’s objectives to improve the social and economic prosperity indicators through evidence-based public policy interventions, capacity-building workshops, and citizen-centric governance-based initiatives, the official statement read.

Under the knowledge partnership, the institute will collaborate with the Goa Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development to conduct workshops for officials of state services.

Bharti Institute along with the state department of information technology will also develop the Goa open data portal, which will serve as a ‘one-stop destination’ for open data to access and interact.

It will also coordinate activities across departments and agencies in the state to attract private investment and will support in enabling the required framework of secure forest tenure, building women-led and community-owned enterprises, delivering digital and mechanical interventions for efficiency and scale, besides providing market linkage.

A legislative support programme will be initiated under the partnership. Research fellowship will be implemented wherein students from diverse backgrounds will be selected from across the state.

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The knowledge partnership will also extend to the department of education, higher education and technical education. The BIPP will extend its support and resources to improve the quality of education through effective leadership training, fostering positive learning environments, and empowering education officials, including principals and heads of institutes.

The BIPP is also working with state governments of Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Punjab.