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Seminars Organised by the Centre:

Dimensions of Federal Nation Building (March 1997)

Lokpal Legislation (April 1997)

Human Rights in Federal India (April 1998)

Free India: Retrospect and Prospects (August 1998)

Human Rights: Fifty Years After Universal Declaration (December 1998)

Nation-Building in India (March 1999)

Indian Federal Polity (October 1999)

Mobilisation, Participation and Development: Old Issues and New Challenges in Fifty Years of India's Constitution (March 2000)

Human Rights (December 2000)

Religion and Politics: Implications for Federal Nation Building

Environmental Law and Management: A Federal View (August 2001)

Federalism and Power-Sharing (September 2001)

The Nation and the Minorities (October 2001)

Contemporary Issues in Indian Federalism (March 2002)

Structure and Change: Indian Federalism (Dec.2002)

Union-State Relations in India (March 2003)

International Theme Conference on "Distribution of Responsibilities in Federal Polities", under the Global Project on Federalism in the 21st Century (November 2003)

Conference of the International Association of Centres of Federal Studies (November 2003)

National Seminar on Governance and Public Policy (March 2004)

Good Governance in A Federal Nation (jointly with the Inter-State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India) (March 2004)

New Dimensions of Federalism (March 2007)

Managing Diversity: The Electoral System and Processes in India (February 2008)

Diversities and Plural Identities in the Federal System (November 2008)
 

 

 

  

Research Information

 

The CFS is engaged in research on the wide-spectrum of themes and topics concerning the federal reality. The Centre has undertaken studies focused on policy-oriented and problem-solving aspects of the emerging Indian federal system, in comparison with other federal polities:
  • Identity and Accommodation in Plural Societies: A Cross Cultural Study.
  • Nature of Coalition Politics: A Framework for Power Sharing.
  • Alliances and Political Parties in India, Canada and Australia.
  • Parliamentary Vs Presidential System: An Appraisal of Debates in India.
  • Working of Parliamentary Democracy in Federal and Unitary Systems.
  • Federalism and Environmental Law in India.
  • Jammu & Kashmir state's economic relations with the Union of India with special focus on Hydro Power Development.
  • Integrating Human Rights with Sustainable Human Development.
  • Human Rights and Empowerment of Security Forces Operating in Insurgency Scenarios: The Conflicting Challenges.
  • Working of Committee System in the Parliament of India and the U.S. Congress.
  • Analysis of resource transfers to States under various Finance Commissions of India.
  • Committee System in Federal Polities: A Comparative Study of the Committee Systems in the Indian Parliament and US Congress.
  • Role of Majlise Shura and Parliament in Political System: A Comparative Study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and India.
  • Evolution of the System of Resource Transfers in the Indian and Canadian Federal Governance.
  • International Agreements and the Implications for Federal Governance: A study of the Agricultural Sector in Sudan.
  • Accommodative Governance in Unitary and Federal Polities: Study of the Syrian and the Indian systems.
  • Local Governance and City Administration: Study of the Syrian and the Indian Systems.
  • Constitutional Instruments and Judicial Review in the protection of Human Rights in India.
  • Federalism and the Human Rights of the Minorities.
  • Federal Governance through Consosiationalism.
  • Empowerment of the weaker sections through the Panchayati Raj Institutions.
  • Democratic Decentralization as Good Governance: Working of Regional and Autonomous Councils and the PRIs in North-East India.
  • Federal Governance of Environment in India and Canada.

PROJECTS:

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Projects Undertaken

Sponsor

Status

1.

Federal Studies in Environmental Law and Management in India: The Relationship between the Centre and State Governments

Ministry of Environment & Forest, Govt. of India

Completed

2.

Minority Representation in Legislatures

Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi

Completed

3.

Origins, Structure and Change in Federations (India)

Global project of Forum of Federations, Canada

Completed

4.

Distribution of Responsibilities
(11 countries)

Global project of Forum of Federations, Canada

Completed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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