AGENDA ITEM 3 - lbsnaa

We have received inquiries from MIT, HKS and Yale. They were givenclarifications on telephone on various issues including our past experiencesetc.The proposed Foreign Exposure Visit would be of 9 days includingSaturday and Sunday. The Foreign Exposure Visit would start on October 10and would continue till October 18, 2011. On completion of the visit theofficers will depart from US on October 19 and reach New Delhi on 20 October,2011. Since only one working day remains in this week, it is proposed to startthe domestic component on October 24 till November 11, 2011. During thisperiod there are three holidays namely Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti and Id UlZuha. Thus effectively there are only 12 working days. We propose to useSaturdays as working days thereby raising number of working days to 14.Every day there will be four sessions of 75 minutes each. After removingsessions earmarked for inaugural and valedictory programme, we will have 50sessions available in the domestic component of Phase V 2011. In order tomake learning participatory, of the 50 sessions, 10 sessions have beenearmarked for participants to share their ‘Insight’, in 8 sessions theparticipants will organize a workshop on Governance Issues. In remaining 32sessions, prominent speakers will be invited to address the participants.The Course Design for the programme will be quite similar to what wasfollowed in the last round. On the basis of inputs received during the lastround of Phase V, the Course Design will be finalized. Some of this will becovered during the Foreign exposure visit. These are included in RFPDocument which is annexed. The last date for submitting a proposal is June10, 2011. The proposals received will be examined in one week andsubmitted for approval by first week of July 2011.The participants will bring with them rich experience of diverse areas ofGovernance. The Academy is in the midst of preparation of Course Design,Time Table and selecting the Guest Speakers. LBSNAA will share all thesedetails with the participants and request them to join the Sessions as theAnchors, if they feel they have relevant experience to share with others.The participants would be expected to bring a Policy/Strategy Paper inan area of their choice. This could include strategy for implementingrecommendations of Administrative Reforms Commission. A large number ofthese have been examined and accepted by a group of Ministers in the CentralGovernment. Their implementation in Centre and States may havegovernance challenges that need to be appreciated. They would be asked topresent their ideas in Sessions titled “Insights”.11