let's think ideas india 2009
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Bulbul
Sharma
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Presentation Scheme
Introduction
Inaugural Address: The Idea of Justice
Can Clean Energy Solve the Problem of Inclusive Growth in India?
How Can Health Care Service Delivery Become More Efficient?
Is India not Following the Water Mantra of Reduce, Recycle,
Replenish?
India and China: Forging an Uneasy Alliance? Why the World Needs India, and What Do They Expect from India?
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Inaugural Address: The Idea of Justice
Do Elections in India Reinforce Narrow Divides?lenary Session
Can Clean Energy Solve the Problem of Inclusive Growthin India?
A New Chapter in Indo-US Relations: Undoing the Past?
Do Elections in India Reinforce Narrow Divides?
ConcurrentSession
Explaining Instability in South Asia: A Legacy ofColonialism or Pangs of Rising Diverse Democracies?
Why is India not Following the Water Mantra of Reduce,
Recycle, Replenish?
ConcurrentSession
Day 1
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The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate in Economics, ProfessorEconomics and Philosophy, Harvard University
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''The Idea of Justice'' is based on the philosophy
On climate change talks: By force of idea, we havethe opportunity to present to the world whatshould be done, rather than what should not bedone.
China's leadership brought in reforms on
education and healthcare before market reforms,and that India had much to learn from it on themanagement of the market economy.
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Can Clean Energy Solve the Problem of Inclusive
Growth in India?
Tarun Das,President, Aspen
Institute India
J N Godrej,Chairman of the
Board of Godrej &Boy Limited
Syamal Gupta,Chairman, TCE
ConsultingEngineers &
Special Advisor
Tata InternationalLtd.
Dilip ChenoyDirector General,Society of Indian
AutomobileManufacturers
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Industry efforts must be multiplied in promotingthe use of clean technologies, especially among the
Small and Medium Enterprises. Underscoring the scope for emissions reductions.
Starting with power plants, industrial efficiency,appliances, vehicles and green buildings, clean
technologies can play an instrumental role inpromoting inclusive growth.
R&D for development of new solar technologies
and transferring subsidies from petroleum-basedproducts into the renewable energy sector, whichwould make them more efficient, widely availableand more affordable.
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How Can Health Care Service Delivery Become
More Efficient?
Sudha Iyer,Chairperson and
Managing Director ofHaritas Health
Services
A K MukherjeeDirector General,
Indian Spinal Injuries
Centre
Alkesh Wadhwani,Deputy Director,
Avahan India (Billand Melinda Gates
Foundation)
Bhavdeep Singh,CEO, Fortis
Healthcare Limited
Ra
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Given that government as well as private sector spendingon healthcare is much below the World HealthcareOrganisation (WHO) recommended standardsInsurance model for rural areas needs to be created foraffordability, and a management structure needs to beput in place for oversight.
NGOs can also play a key role in the healthcare servicedelivery model in rural areas.
Public-Private Partnership programs.
A healthcare revolution would include addressing the
shortage of doctors and nurses through education andtraining and focusing on accreditation as well asstandardization with a long term view
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Day 2 Minority Matters: Challenges and OpportunitiesPlenary Session Has Corruption Become A Way of Life?
The Art of GivingConcurrentSession Explaining Instability in South Asia: A Legacy of Colonialism or Pangs of
Rising Diverse Democracies?
Why is India not Following the Water Mantra of Reduce, Recycle,
Replenish?
ConcurrentSession
India and China: Forging an Uneasy Alliance?
What Are Young Leaders Bringing to The Development Debate?
Will an Emphasis on Vocational Education Help India Reap itsDemographic Advantage?
ConcurrentSession
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Why is India not Following the Water Mantra of
Reduce, Recycle, Replenish?
NikhilSawhneyExecutiveDirector,Triveni
Engineering
and IndustriesLtd.
SureshPrabhuFormer
Minister forEnergy,
Government ofIndia
Arjun ThapanDirectorGeneral,
SoutheastAsia, Asian
DevelopmentBank
Varun SahniIndia Director,Acumen Fund
Manoj Kumar,CEO, NaandiFoundation
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Social Entrepreneurship and community involvement,supported by institutional frame work can lift the nationout of the water crisis.
Business funds were contemplating involving local waterbodies to local communities and developing businessmodels around it to bring supply clean drinking water tothe people of the rural areas who are forced to buy
unsafe drinking water from the water mafia
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India and China: Forging an Uneasy Alliance?
Indrani BagchiDiplomatic Editor,
Times of India
Paul Beckett,Bureau Chief forSouth Asia, Wall
Street Journal
Nayan ChandaDirector of
Publications andthe Editor ofYaleGlobal
Online Magazine
at the YaleCentre for theStudy of
Globalization
Siddiq Wahid,Vice Chancellor,
IslamicUniversity,Srinagar
Sanjay Labroo,Managing
Director & CEOof Asahi India
Glass
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There is a lack of knowledge and understanding
between India and China about each other
China has a huge internal threat problem and is
worried about external forces .
India must learn from China''s growth strategy
of exports and investments.
India''s close relationship with US in recent
years
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Day 3PlenarySession
ConcurrentSession
Why the World Needs India,and What Do They Expectfrom India?
Lessons of 26/11: Is IndiaSafer?
Empowering Indias Women:Is Enough Being Done?
Can India Chart a NewCourse in the Fight AgainstClimate Change?
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Why the World Needs India, and What Do They
Expect from India?
Gautam ThaparChairman, Aspen InstituteIndia, Chairman and CEO,
Avantha Group
Shashi Tharoor Ministerof State, Ministry of
External Affairs,Government of India andFormer Board Member,
Aspen Institute India
C K Prahalad Paul andRuth McCracken
Distinguished UniversityProfessor of Strategy,
Stephen M. Ross School
of Business, University ofMichigan
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