An autonomous research institute under the Ministry of Finance

 

Ongoing projects

Improving Budget Execution through Public Financial Management reforms: The Case of National Health Mission

  • Start date Nov., 2022
  • Completion date Dec., 2023
  • Sponsor BMGF under Approaches to Public Financing of Health in India: The Way Forward
  • Project leader Mita Choudhury
  • Consultants/Other authors Chetna Choudhury, Nitya, Khusboo

Digitisation and Updating of State Finances from Finance Accounts – Data Bank. Continuous

  • Sponsor NIPFP
  • Project leader H.K. Amarnath
  • Consultants/Other authors Rohit Dutta
  • Focus
    Updating of state finances information from Finance Accounts, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), GoI. We have the information from 1987-88 to 2019-20 for all the 29 states.

Updating of Public Finance Information and Making it Available Online for the Faculty in Digital Format from Finance Accounts 2017-18 of the Respective States. Completed for fiscal year 2020-21

  • Sponsor NIPFP
  • Project leader Rohit Dutta and Amar Nath
  • Focus

    Making the information available online for the faculty in digital format.


Fiscal Federalism in Global South

  • Start date Aug., 2019
  • Completion date Dec., 2021
  • Sponsor Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under the Innovation in Public Finance project
  • Project leader Lekha Chakraborty
  • Consultants/Other authors Gurleen Kaur, Amandeep Kaur, Jannet Farida Jacob, Anindita Ghosh, Divy Rangan
  • Focus

    Preparation of conference proceedings of Federalism in Global South. The fiscal federalism – revenue assignment, expenditure assignment, intergovernmental fiscal transfers - of Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Nepal and India are discussed in this project.


Public Finance for Children: State-level Analysis of Gujarat, Odisha, Karnataka, Telangana

  • Start date Aug., 2019
  • Completion date Dec., 2021
  • Sponsor Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under the Innovation in Public Finance project
  • Project leader Lekha Chakraborty and Amandeep Kaur (with Anindita Ghosh (till December 2020) and Jannet Farida Jacob)
  • Focus
    Around 60 per cent of school-age children are now in the category termed as ‘effectively out-of-school’. They are deprived of education due to the ‘digital divide’ (lack of access to internet) — a situation that has emerged because of the pandemic. 
    In this study, we explore child budgeting in the specific context of India’s Central and sub-national government responses to the pandemic, with a focus on the states of Karnataka, Gujarat, Odisha and Telangana. The inferences from our study on child budgeting of these specific states will help the Ministry of Finance to strengthen child budgeting as a public financial management tool for accountability, at the Central and state government levels.