Public Policy: Process, Design & Governance in India

India's policy landscape is among the most complex in the world. A single social programme might be designed by the Union government, funded through a Finance Commission formula, implemented by state bureaucracies, delivered by district officials who are simultaneously accountable to multiple levels of government, monitored by an audit institution that reports to Parliament, and litigated before courts that have their own interpretive frameworks. Practitioners who understand only the programme — but not the system — are operating blind.

This course builds that systemic understanding. It covers the full architecture: how the Indian state is structured, how policy moves from idea to implementation, where public money comes from and how it gets spent, how regulatory bodies actually function, and why some reforms succeed while most stall. Every module is grounded in real Indian evidence — not generic policy frameworks imported from the West.