Making Sense of Union Budget 2025-26
Venue
In person and online on Zoom
Event Date and Time
4th February 2025, 5.30 to 6.30 pm IST
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The General Management & Public Policy Area in collaboration with the CPPG, organised a post Union Budget 2025-26 discussion for PGDM students and campus and for a larger auidence online via Zoom. The discussion featured a keynote address on the Union Budget 2025-26 by Prof. Sebastian Morris followed by interactions and Q&A moderated by Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar.
Keynote speaker(s)
Prof. Sebastian Morris
Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Moderator
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar
Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management
- kingshuk@gim.ac.in
- 91 832 2366942
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011.
Schedule
5.30 pm to 6.00 pm: Registration and Refreshments
6.00 pm to 6.05 pm: Welcome (Dr. Pushkar and Ms. Bernice de Souza)
6.05 pm to 6.10 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Ajit Parulekar, Director, GIM
6.10 pm to 6.15 pm: Inaugural Remarks by Prof. Imran Rahman, Vice Chancellor, ULAB
6.15 pm to 6.20 pm: Setting the Context (Prof. Sebastian Morris, Chair, CPPG-GIM)
6.20 pm to 7.00 pm: Keynote address by Prof. Sudeep Chakravarti, Director, C-SAS, ULAB
7.00 pm to 7.25 pm: Open session, discussion and Q&A (Moderated by Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Member, CPPG)
7.25 pm to 7.30 pm: Vote of Thanks (Ms. Christal Ferrao)
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Contact Persons
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 9923693329
Ms. Vividha Amonkar, Executive – Administration, CPPG, GIM
Email: vividha@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 94052 01816