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Centre for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS)

Meetings – 2018

CIPS team led by Director (I/c), CIPS had attended a meeting convened by the Managing Director, APG&BC at Vijayawada.
Date: December 26, 2018
CIPS has been selected as one of the training partners by Commissionerate of School Education, GoAP and was assigned (1425) schools in (3) districts covering (2,11,334) students for implementing life skills and career guidance for IX and X class students. Accordingly, a meeting was held by CIPS team along with subject experts and other training partners.
Date: December 4, 2018
CIPS team held a meeting with Dr. Pattabhiram, renowned motivational speaker, Smt. Shanta Vittal Rao, former Head Mistress, Warangal district, Sri Upender Reddy, Consultant, School Education Dept., Govt. of Telangana, Sri Ramesh Rao, School Administrator, Govt. of Telangana, Smt. Anuradha Reddy, Consultant, Commissionerate of School Education Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, representatives from COIGN Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Nirmaan and i-Dreams.
Date: November 28, 2018
On receipt of invitation from the Director, Tribal Welfare Dept., Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
Date: November 19, 2018
Conducted a brainstorming session chaired by the Director (I/C), CIPS on “Mitigating Human-Animal Conflicts to Double the Farm Income by Reducing Crop and Livestock Losses; Promotion of Bamboo and Agroforestry” at CIPS
Date: November 10, 2018
Organised a brainstorming session with knowledge partners at CIPS office.
Date: November 10, 2018
A Preparatory meeting was held with Mr. Mathen Rajeev Mathew, Knowledge Partner, CIPS.
Date: November 8, 2018
CIPS has conducted the 12th Advisory Council Meeting on 25 October 2018 at 11:00 Hrs. under the Chairmanship of Shri S.K Joshi, Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Telangana.
Date: October 25, 2018
CIPS has conducted the 20th Steering Committee Meeting on 25th October 2018 at 14:30 Hrs. (Afternoon) chaired by Prof. Nirmala Apsingikar, Chairperson, Steering Committee, CIPS and Director General (I/c), ASCI. In consultation with all the staff members.
Date: October 25, 2018
CIPS team visited Commissionerate of School Education, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh to decide the content on life skills and career guidance to be imparted to IX and X class students of government schools. Also, the team visited Tribal Welfare Department and facilitated drafting letter to the Commissioner, Department of School Education requesting to furnish the data as required.
Date: October 23, 2018
CIPS team along with the knowledge partners from COIGN attended a meeting convened by the Commissioner, Dept. of School Education, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
Date: October 15, 2018
CIPS team visited Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Punjagutta and held discussions with Dr. Siddharth Rao, Dy. Medical Superintendent who had requested CIPS team to present a live demonstration to Dr. N. Satyanarayana, Medical Superintendent, NIMS on Eco365 Water saving nozzles. Response awaited to finalize the date for conducting the live demonstration.
Date: October 11, 2018
CIPS team held detailed discussions with the Department Tribal Welfare, Govt. of A.P at Vijayawada.
Date: October 9, 2018
Following the request from Tribal Welfare Department and Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, CIPS team headed by Advisor, CIPS, attended the review meeting on the project proposal titled “Study and documentation of the indigenous (Health) knowledge, performing Arts, Visual Arts of 23 Tribal Communities across AP” submitted by Prof. Vijay Prakash (Retd.,) from Andhra University.
Date: September 27, 2018
CIPS team in consultation with Dr. N. Upender Reddy, Consultant, prepared draft structure of assessment of tribal education sector in Andhra Pradesh duly considering the achievements, challenges & policy options. The team also compiled ITDA wise tables for collecting details of schools, teachers, enrollment, teacher training, infrastructure facilities, etc. from the year 2013-2014 to 2017-2018.
Date: September 24, 2018
In response to the EoI pertaining to Foreign Training of Forestry Personnel (FTFP) under “Forestry Training and Capacity Building” floated by MoEF&CC, Govt. of India, CIPS staff headed by Director (I/C) attended a series of meetings with Dr. Valli Manickam, Dean-Training, ASCI, Dr. K. Tirupataiah, IFS, Director-Centre for Forest and Natural Resource Management Studies (CEFNARM)-Telangana State Forest Academy, Ms. C.S Ramalakshmi, IFS (Retd.), Advisor-CIPS.
Date: September 15, 2018
CIPS Team along with Dr. K. Tirupataiah, IFS, Director, Centre for Forest and Natural Resource Management Studies (CEFNARM)- Telangana State Forest Academy. Attended the pre-bid conference on Foreign Training of Forestry Personnel (FTFP) under “Forestry Training and Capacity Building” at the office of MoEF&CC, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Date: August 28, 2018
CIPS Team attended a meeting with Dr.Valli Manickam, Dean – Training Programmes, ASCI, Bella Vista to discuss about the RFP on Training of Forest Officers under the scheme “Foreign Training of forestry Personnel” of MoEF&CC.
Date: August 24, 2018
In response to the EoI pertaining to Foreign Training of Forestry Personnel (FTFP) under “Forestry Training and Capacity Building” floated by MoEF&CC, Govt. of India, CIPS staff headed by Director (I/C) attended a series of meetings with Dr. Valli Manickam, Dean-Training, ASCI, Dr. K. Tirupataiah, IFS, Director-Centre for Forest and Natural Resource Management Studies (CEFNARM)-Telangana State Forest Academy, Ms. C.S Ramalakshmi, IFS (Retd.), Advisor-CIPS.
Date: August 23, 2018
CIPS team held a series of meetings with Mr. Mathen Rajeev Mathew, Knowledge Partner, CIPS to prepare an advertisement inviting potential sponsorers for mitigating human-wildlife conflicts, conserving biodiversity, sustainable use of bio-resources and promotion of bamboo development.
Date: August 17, 2018
CIPS team held a series of meetings with Mr. Mathen Rajeev Mathew, Knowledge Partner, CIPS to prepare an advertisement inviting potential sponsorers for mitigating human-wildlife conflicts, conserving biodiversity, sustainable use of bio-resources and promotion of bamboo development.
Date: August 17, 2018
In pursuance of the Project Establishing District Cancer Detection Centre, Suryapet District Director CIPS along with Advisor, CIPS and PRA CIPS met Dr. Ramesh Reddy, Director, Medical Education, Government of Telangana and explained in detail about the said project.
Date: August 15, 2018
CIPS team visited Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Date: August 13, 2018
On receipt of the invitation from Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB) for 2nd ABS Thematic Expert Member Committee Meeting, the Director (I/C), CIPS chaired the said meeting at GSBB Office, Goa.
Date: August 7, 2018
CIPS team visited Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Date: August 6, 2018
CIPS team met Principle Secretary to Govt. Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare, GoAP.
Date: August 4, 2018
CIPS team along with representatives of HOPE Foundation, Kolkata, made acquaintance visit to ITDA Eturnagaram, Jayashankar District, Telangana.
Date: August 3, 2018
CIPS team visited Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Date: June 25, 2018
CIPS team had detailed deliberations with the officials of Commissionerate of School Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh and members of COIGN Consultant Services Pvt. Ltd.
Date: June 20, 2018
Held meeting with Shri. Pavana Murthy, ITS, Director (Technical), Department of ITE&C Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
Date: June 10, 2018
Held meeting with Shri. P.V. Chalapathi Rao, IFS Special Secretary to Govt., Planning Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
Date: June 10, 2018
Held meeting with Shri. Aditya Nath Das, IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Govt., Dept. of School Education, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
Date: June 10, 2018
Held meeting with Shri. Dr. Mohd. Ilyas Rizvi, IFS, PCCF (HoFF), Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
Date: June 9, 2018
Held meeting with Shri. B.N.N Murthy, Director, Zoo & Arboretum, Forest Department, Andhra Pradesh.
Date: June 9, 2018
Held meeting with Shri. Nalini Mohan, IFS, Chief Wild life Warden, Forest Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
Date: June 9, 2018
Conducted series of meetings with Prof. B V Sharma, Dr. Koteswara Rao of the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad.
Date: May 21, 2018
Held meeting with Shri Sambhrant Sharma, Director, Aurobindo Society.
Date: April 9, 2018
Held meeting with Shri Mayank Agarwal, Operations Head, Aurobindo Society & the other representatives of Govt. of Telangana.
Date: April 3, 2018
Held meeting with the representatives of APUG&BC to finalize the draft “Andhra Pradesh Urban Greening Policy – 2018” at APUG&BC, Vijayawada.
Date: March 20, 2018
Held meeting with Prof. K Sujatha, Former Head, Department of Educational Administration, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration for finetuning the draft units pertaining to education of the training modules prepared by CIPS.
Date: March 19, 2018
Held meeting with experts from NIRD and Sakti NGO to finalize and finetune the contents of the ‘Training Module for Gram Sabha members for implementation of PESA Act’.
Date: February 9, 2018
Held Final Brain-storming session with the experts of School Health and Adivasi Arogyam, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and Commissionerate & Directorate of School Education, Govt. of Telangana. The meeting was also attended by Prof. K Sujatha, Former Head, Department of Educational Administration, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration and Addl. Director (Retd.) of Medical & Health Dept. of Govt. of A.P.
Date: February 8, 2018
Held meeting with the Project Manager, NBA, Chennai to discuss on (1) National Workshop to document lessons learnt and the way forward for Developing Framework for next phase of UNEP-GEF-MoEFCC ABS Project & (2) National Evaluation/Study to document lessons learnt for Policy Support for UNEP-GEF-MoEFCC ABS Projects.
Date: February 6, 2018
Attended the 20th PRSG Meeting of MeitY to review the project titled, “Capacity Building Programmes of Innovative Best Practices under MMP of State Governments and Govt. of India” at New Delhi, under the Chairmanship of Shri Sanjay Goel, Joint Secretary (e-Gov).
Date: February 2, 2018
Organized Brainstorming session for finetuning the Academic Aspects for the “Training Module for the Head of the Educational Institutes in Tribal Areas”.
Date: January 29, 2018
Organized preliminary meeting with Professors of the Department of Anthropology, UoH.
Date: January 19, 2018
Organized Brain storming session for finetuning the aspects of school health for the “Training Module for the Head of the Educational Institutes in Tribal Areas”.
Date: January 18, 2018
Organized Meeting of Jury Members – Health – CIPS Annual Awards 2017-2018.
Date: January 16, 2018
Held telephonic meeting with Mr. Mayank Agarwal of Zero Investment based Innovations for Education Initiatives (ZIIEE), Aurobindo Society.
Date: January 9, 2018
Held meeting with experts from NIRD and Sakti NGO on Preparation of Training Module for Gram Sabha Members on implementation of PESA Act.
Date: January 8, 2018
Held meeting with Prof. BV Sharma and Prof. N Sudhakar Rao, UoH to discuss about the new project and to get updates about the on-going project for preparation of training module for the functionaries of tribal area.
Date: January 4, 2018
Held meeting with the Faculty Members of Liberal Arts, IIT-Hyderabad, Dr. Haripriya Narasimhan, Dr. Anindita Majumdar.
Date: January 2, 2018