BRIEF PROFILE OF BHAWANJEET SINGH

Bhawanjeet Singh is General Manager, Corporate Planning in NTPC Ltd., a Power Sector

CPSE. He is basically a Graduate Engineer in Electrical stream with Masters in Business

Administration. He is currently looking after performance management systems in his esteemed

organisation. Singh has over 25 years of wide experience working at corporate level interacting

with various Governmental institutions etc. He has seen various transition phases of MOU and

RFD systems in India. He is one of the main architect of Internalisation of MOU system in his

organisation.

Coordinates:

Email: bjsingh@ntpc.co.in

M: +91-9650991230

BRIEF PROFILE OF MR. NARESH MOHAN JHA

Mr. Naresh Mohan Jha is an officer of the Indian Civil Accounts Service (1996 batch) with over

20 years of experience in handling various Public Finance Management aspects. He has served in

the Ministries of HRD, Road Transport & Highways, Civil Aviation and with the O/o Controller

General of Accounts in the past. Since October, 2007 he has been part of the Ministry of Finance

as Director in the Budget Division, excluding the period from July 2013 to December 2014 when

he worked as Director in the Fourteenth Finance Commission. He has been responsible in

various capacities in designing and implementing a range of public financial management reform

initiatives in Government of India and has over 20 years of operational and policy making

experience in the field of public financial management and accountability in India. While having

extensive experience in the Budget formulation process having worked as Director (Budget) in

the national budget office, he also has significant experience in budget execution having

managed the allocations and releases, accounting, financial reporting and internal audit functions

in different Ministries of the Government.

As Director in the 14th

Finance Commission of India (July 2013 to December 2015), he worked

on both the Union and State Finances. At present he is closely involved in various budgetary

reforms being carried out in the Government of India mainly relating to merger of Plan and Non-

Plan, merger of Railway Budget, Revising the Framework of Outcome Budgeting and the

Medium Term Expenditure Framework as well as the advancement of the budget cycle. He is

also associated closely with the Committee set up to Review the FRBM Act which is due to

submit its report shortly.

Coordinates:

Email: njha@gov.in/nmjha@hotmail.com

M: +91-9818601720

Brief Profile of Pradeep Singh

Pradeep Singh has over 35 years of work experience in government,

non-government and

private sector organizations, and in academia.

Since August 2013, Pradeep Singh has been the CEO of the Mohali Campus and the Deputy Dean

of the Indian School of Business (ISB), an institute established in partnership with The Kellogg

School of Management, The Wharton School and London Business School. He is responsible for

operationalizing the recently launched four Institutes at ISB dedicated respectively to

Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Public Policy. The Infrastructure and

Manufacturing Institutes are being established in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT), the Healthcare Institute in collaboration with the Wharton School, and the

Public Policy Institute in partnership with the Fletcher School of International Diplomacy.

In his previous roles, Pradeep Singh served as the Vice Chairman & CEO of IDFC Projects Ltd.

and was the founding CEO of IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation (IIDC). He

oversaw the development of infrastructure projects in Public Private Partnership formats in

collaboration with State and Central Governments in various sectors including Roads, Ports,

Airports, Water Supply and Sewage systems, e-Governance, Industrial Parks and Tourism. He

has worked in the commercialized infrastructure sector and in the field for 16 Years.

From 1978 to 1995, Pradeep Singh was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)

and later also served as the Assistant Country Director at CARE India, an international NGO. He

has been a visiting faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

and has been engaged in consulting for the World Bank and the ADB.

Mr. Singh holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University and

was a Rotary International Graduate Fellow at Stanford University USA. He also holds the MBA

and M.Sc (Physics) degrees from Punjab and Punjabi University respectively.

Rathin Roy took charge as Director NIPFP in May 2013.

Prior to joining NIPFP, he has been the Director of Asia Pacific

Regional Centre, UNDP, Bangkok, and the Director, International

Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), UNDP, Brazil. He

has also served as the Public Resource Management Advisor, and

the Acting Cluster Leader, Inclusive Development, in the Poverty

Practice, Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), UNDP. On

invitation from the Government of India, he also served as the

Economic Advisor to the Thirteenth Finance Commission, a

Constitutional body of the Government of India. Recently, he has

also been appointed as part-member of the Seventh Central Pay

Commission, constituted by the Government of India. He has

worked in over 80 countries during and prior to his tenure with

UNDP, and is a well known figure in the world of applied macroeconomic and fiscal policy.

He holds a PhD in Economics and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK. Post-PhD,

he was tenured in the Economics Faculty at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),

University of London, and an Economist with the Institute for Development Policy and

Management, University of Manchester.

Recent publications

(2016), "Finance commission of India’s assessments: A political economy contention

between expectations and outcomes", Applied Economics, 48(2):73-88, Routledge.

(2015), "Finance Commission of India’s Assessments: A Political Economy Contention

Between Expectations and outcomes", Applied Economics, 48(2): 73-88 (January).

(2015), "The Public Education system and What the Costs Imply", Economic and

Political Weekly, 50(31): 10-13 (August).

(2015), "Room at the top: An overview of fiscal space, fiscal policy, and inclusive growth

in developing Asia", in Donghyun Park, Sang-Hyop Lee, and Minsoo Lee (eds.),

"Inequality, Inclusive Growth, and Fiscal Policy in Asia", Routledge-GRIPS

Development Forum Studies, Routledge.

(2015), " "The Public Education System and What the Costs Imply”", "Economic &

Political Weekly", Vol.50, No.31, August, 10-13p.

Membership in committees and commissions

Member, Seventh Central Pay Commission, Government of India

Member, Prime Minister’s Task Force on Elimination of Poverty in India, National

Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog)

Member, Expert Group for UNESCAP: Economic and Social Survey of Asia and Pacific

Member, Advisory Group to the Finance Minister on G-20 issues

Member, Project Management Committee (PMC) for 3rd three year cycle of Mid-Career

Training (MCTP) for IAS Officers (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16)

Member, National Training Council under the chairmanship of Minister, Ministry of

Personnel, Public Grievances & Pension, for giving overall direction for the

implementation of the policy. (September 3, 2013 – onwards)

Member, Small Group to prepare Central Memorandum for the Fourteenth Finance

Commission, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

Member, Governing Body, National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), New Delhi

Member, Reader Group, Global Human Development Report, UNDP

Member, Advisory Council for the K.M. Mani Centre for Budget Studies, Cochin

University of Science and Technology

Member, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-Inquiry into a Sustainable

Financial System – Member, India Advisory Committee

Member, Meta-Council on Inclusive Growth, World Economic Forum, Geneva

Member, Advisory Committee to Review the current Ways and Means (WMA)/

Overdraft (OD) Scheme facility to the State Governments by the Reserve Bank of India

Member, ASSOCHAM Think Tank

Member, Technical Advisory Group for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative in India,

Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India (8th May 2015

– onwards)

Member, Search-cum-Selection Committee constituted for selection of Deputy Governor

of RBI

Member, RIS Review Committee to carry out a comprehensive review of the Faculty

Positions at RIS and their pay scales

Member, Lok Sabha Core Group Committee on the proposed Knowledge/Research

Initiative

Member, Research Advisory Council (RAC), RIS.

Member, Executive Body, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and

Policy Analysis.

Member, Advisory Board of Urbanisation, IIHS Bangalore.

Professional activities

Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society

Sh. SANJAI SINGH, ICAS has more than 29 years of rich

experience in various Ministries/Departments of

Government of India and with apex financial institution

(NABARD), including two years of international experience

with UNDP in Afghanistan. In Govt. of India he has worked

in Ministry of Finance, External Affairs, Labour, Surface

Transport, Power and Cabinet Secretariat (Performance Management Division).

He has very closely dealt with all aspects of Public Financial Management at

Senior Management Level including finance, budgeting, accounting, internal

audit, procurement and also as Head of Deptt. in various offices.

He has undergone a course on ‘Public Financial Management’ at Duke University,

USA and on ‘Leadership’ at RIPA International, London. He has extensively

delivered lectures on various facets of Public Financial Management to both

international and national participants in training programs.

Presently, he is Chief Controller (Pension) in Ministry of Finance dealing with

Pension matters of more than one million Central Civil Pensioners and budget

grant of about Rs. 30,000 crore (4.42 billion dollars).

Dr Subhash Chandra Pandey

Joined Indian Audit and Accounts Service in 1983, part of the Supreme

Audit Institution of India

Holds a doctorate in Mathematics in the area of operations research.

Current assignments:

Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser(Industry) providing financial

advice support to three Departments (Department of Industrial Policy and

Promotion, Department of Heavy Industries and D/o Pubic Enterprises).

Senior Adviser, FRBM Review Committee

Secretary to the Committee on Change of Financial Year.

Work experience

With active participation in handling 13 Central Budgets, 6 State Budgets, 3

Finance Commissions, 2 Five-Year Plans, State Reorganization, fiscal

responsibility legislation etc, in addition to audit of commercial enterprises

and State governments, he has rich experience as a practitioner in public

financial management management, especially budget and expenditure

management.

As Director(Budget), he had prepared the first draft of the Fiscal

Responsibility and Budget Management Act in Oct 1999 as part of his

research paper “Legislative Regulation of Debt and Deficit in India. While

considering his paper, the Government decided to set up a high level

Committee on Fiscal Responsibility Legislation of which he was the

convenor. He worked on the FRBM Bill till its introduction in Parliament

(before going to Antigua in April 2001) and was appointed OSD(Fiscal

Responsibility and Budget Management) to implement the Act.

He has served as a member of several Committees set up by the Ministry of

Finance and the Reserve Bank such as

Member, State Finance Secretaries’ Committee on State

Guarantees set up by the RBI

Member, State Finance Secretaries’ Committee on Disclosure

norms in State Budgets

Permanent Invitee, Advisory Group on Fiscal Transparency

Member, Inter-Ministerial Group on Postal Finances

Member, Inter Ministerial Group on social burden on Railways

Member, Task Force on Internal Audit set up by CAG at the

instance of M/o Finance

SURENDER PAUL

Current Position: Deputy Director, Himachal Pradesh Planning Department.

Basically an Economist, did post Graduation in Economics from Himachal

Pradesh University, Shimla,

About 27 year experience of Regional and Decentralized Planning,

Implementation and Monitoring Including 12 year experience of working in

World Bank assisted Watershed Development aided externally projects as

Monitoring Evaluation and Information Management expert.

Presently, looking after Performance Management, Skill Development,

Externally Aided Project, Regional and Decentralized Planning, Innovation, and

Project Monitoring Divisions of State Planning Department.