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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FEBRUARY 2018, ISSUE1|PAGE2 Editorial Team In this Issue Policy engagement Executive Editor Student engagement with Policy……………………………………………………………….3 Geetha Krishna Faculty Publication Contributing Editors Aseem Prakash, The Hybrid State and Regulation Tharun Bathini of Land and Real Estate………………………………………………………………………….…7 Spriha Pandey Amit Upadhyay; Shasheej Hegde, Back to the Rough Ground of Rights: Pathways for a Managing Editors Historicisation of ‘Civil Liberties’ in India..........………….…………………………….…7 For Legislative Briefs Drishti Vishwanath Legislative Briefs Tharun Bathini The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017…....………………………………….................................9 Cover Design Akhil Reddy The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016....................................................................12 Source: Google Images The Whistle-blowers' Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015………………………..16 Newsletter Design Geetha Krishna The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Third Amendment) Bill, 2017…………………………20 The Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Bill, 2017………………………………………………………………………….....23 Facebook The Muslim Women(Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017………………………………………………………………………………………………...26 Website The Transgender Person (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016………………………..28 Acknowledgement The Consumer Protection Bill, 2018………………………………………………………...32 The information and photos contained in this newsletter are produced by Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites Remains School of Public Policy and Governance, TISS Hyderabad Off Campus. However (Amendment) Bill, 2017…………………………………………………………………………..36 some of the information and photos may have been taken from other sources. The editorial team of the Budget Focus newsletter acknowledges all such National Health Protection Scheme; The Behemoth Plan of the Govt………..40 material. Disclaimer Minimum Support Price…………………………………………………………………………..42 The newsletter is an attempt to disseminate the academic efforts and Parliamentary News intellectual activities of the students of the School of Public Policy and Winter Session 2017….......................................................................................................45 Governance. The views expressed in this newsletter are the authors’ own and do not reflect the views of TISS or SPPG Seminars/Workshops/ Perspective Lectures the School of Public Policy and Perspectives; December 2017 – February 2018 Series……………….…….........…48 Governance. SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FEBRUARY 2018, ISSUE1|PAGE3 Policy engagement 1. Chitti Guruvulu- a community based adult education programme, and 2. Rythu Sevalo Revenue Sakha- a district Policy Evaluation: Last Mile Delivery of administration fueled move to bring revenue Public Policies services to the doorstep of farmers. The graduate students of the School of The case study initiative by the school Public Policy and Governance were invited by the culminated in reports on 'Last Mile Delivery of District Collector of the Vizianagaram District, Public Services in Remote Regions' looking at Andhra Pradesh to conduct case studies on two institutional reasons for the success of these initiatives active in the district: programmes. Revenue Services at the Doorstep: A Little Masters Creating New Avenues in Case Study of Rythu Sevalo Revenue Adult Literacy: A Case Study of Chitti Sakhahttp://www.tiss.edu/uploads/files/ Guruvulu – Revenue_Services_at_the_Doorsteps.pdf http://www.tiss.edu/uploads/files/Little_Mast ers_Creating_New_Avenues_for_literacy.pdf SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FEBRUARY 2018, ISSUE1|PAGE4 Socio-Economic and Development Participation in Media Status of Selected Tribal Villages in Naveena TV9 Paravathipuram Naveena, a TV9 program which takes up subjects that are taboo in the society recently aired an episode on TransVision, India's first YouTube channel with content written and directed by transgender people. TransVision's mission is to dispel stereotypes surrounding the community by providing accurate and scientific The report on “Assessment of information on socio-cultural, religious, Socio-Economic and Development Status of economic and political aspects of the community Selected Tribal Villages in Parvathipuram: Implications of Public Policy” is a culmination Kalyani and Haritha, students of of the efforts of the graduate students of School of Public Policy and Governance School of Public Policy and Governance - TISS, participated in this episode. Kalyani's Hyd. In order to interlink the theoretical intervention was related to the field work done linkage taught in classrooms with lived during her second experiential learning, a realities, the students carried out fieldwork in mandatory component of Social Conflict and five Mandals of Parvathipuram to analyse the Public Policy concentration. Aadhaar is being socio-economic conditions of the inhabitants in linked to various entitlements and it has 'Other' the region with special focus on the gender category while documents like PAN card Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, namely don't have it leading to mismatch in gender Gadabas and Savaras. The report is an entry. She spoke about how this mismatch is amalgamation of brief analysis of five mandals creating hurdles for the transgender community covered during the survey, that is, Salur, in obtaining documents in desired name and Kurupam, Gummalakshmipuram, Pachipenta gender. Later in the episode, Rachana and Komarada. Each chapter ends with Mudraboyina, a noted transgender activist recommendations highlighting focus areas of spoke about the contribution of students to livelihood, education and health. script for Telugu programmes in the channel. http://download.tiss.edu/Batch2019Experient ialLearningDecember2017.pdf https://youtu.be/V1o-kNPJD78 SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FEBRUARY 2018, ISSUE1|PAGE5 Student Presents Paper at Urban ARC 2018 Presentation of Report on Annapurna Canteens Sushant Deshpande IIHS Presentation Sushant Deshpande, student of the School of Public Policy and Governance presented his paper entitled 'Hopping on to the ‘urbanisation’ bandwagon with manual scavengers' in Waste, Technology and the City panel at Urban ARC 2018, the annual research conference of Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) on 13th January 2018. The panel was live-streamed on the following link - https://goo.gl/GAV4im The paper attempts to deal with the problems faced by manual scavengers in urban areas. He conducted research in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Thane focusing on the role of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in solving the issue of manual scavenging. The paper also throws light on the amount of technological presence currently felt by Aprajita Verma and Geetha manual scavengers and provides key areas Krishna, students of School of Public Policy where technology can be applied with the and Governance presented a case study on support of ULBs. 'Understanding the Urban Poor: A Multi- Stakeholder Perspective Study of Annapurna Canteens in Hyderabad” in an interactive session with students and faculty from Cornell University. The case study centered on Annapurna Canteens, a scheme run by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) offering meals at Rs. 5. It was a collaborative study by first year graduate students of the school which aimed to provide a critical account of the scheme by locating it in the current streams of public policy in the state. In addition, gaps and recommendations were discussed. SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FEBRUARY 2018, ISSUE1|PAGE6 Public Policy and Data: An Initiative by the the scope of this attempt. Data Series hopes Graduate Students of SPPG to take its work to a broader audience engaged in policy making, bureaucracy and NGOs, in a comprehensible format. The students have worked on the following series: • Amit Babu- Open Defecation and Public Sanitation in India • Chungkham Sonny- How much does India spend on cycle rikshaw? • Huidom Boicha Singh- Religious Given the increasing reliance on expenditures in India data-informed policy formulation, the School of Public Policy and Governance has initiated • Mehak Bhatia- Transport expenditure a publication titled School of Public Policy and Urbanization and Governance Data Series. • Nihal Ranjit- Whose right is the Right to The attempt is a first of its kind Water? A peak into numbers from the School of Public Policy and Governance and aims to be a platform where • Sneha Kuriakose-Is higher spending on the students can put forward their temptation goods a reality among preliminary attempts of understanding the India's poor? policy concerns by engaging with the empirical nuances of the sector they are • Soumyaparna Samanta- An empirical dealing with. This series aims to bring out a study on violence against women and set of data-analysis conducted by the final the Interlinkages with Women Labor year graduate students, using national and Force participation internationally known micro-data series aided by the statistical, econometrics, GIS • Syed Jaasirah Syedain- What affects tools. Higher Education in India? This series attempts to • Vijay Pamarathi- Out- of- Pocket understand a variety of concerns across transport expenditure; Precarity for the sectors and the students also look at the urban poor possible ways of further policy explorations in the sectors dealt with through the policy • Vishal Udaykumar-Inter-state and Socio- recommendations