State-Business Relations
Workshops
The first SBR India workshop was hosted by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies in January 2009. The poster and rapporteur's report from the workshop are available; if you would like access to any of the presentations from the workshop, please email the programme office.
Policy Reference Group
The first meeting of the Policy Reference Group of the SBR India projects was held in Kolkata on 12 November 2008. The meeting was convened by Mr. Bipul Chatterjee, Deputy Executive Director, CUTS International, Jaipur. He presented an overview of the IPPG Research Programme Consortium in 2008–2009, and a summary of the research programme on State-Business Relations in India and also the involvement and role of CUTS in this project. S. N. Menon, former Commerce Secretary of India and Chairman of the PRG of the SBR India Project, reiterated the importance of taking an intense look at the impact of industrial relations on development, particularly with reference to Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal: states which have witnessed very different outcomes with respect to industrialisation. Members of the PRG assured the SBR India research team that they would extend all co-operation to the research team for making this ambitious and significant project a success.
| S.N. Menon | Former Commerce Secretary of India | Chair |
| B.G. Sastry | Director, Bhamidi Finance & Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. | Andhra Pradesh |
| Niranjan Mohanty | President, Utkal Chamber of Commerce & Industries | Orissa |
| Bibhuti Mohapatra | President, Orissa Small Scale Industries Association | Orissa |
| H.P. Mishra | Founder Chairman, Industrial Promotion Investment Corporation of Orissa Ltd. & Managing Director, Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa | Orissa |
| Sudhansu Mishra | Ex Chief Secretary & Principle Secretary, Industries Department | Orissa |
| Neelachal Ray | Director-General, DGCI&S | West Bengal |
| Gopinath Reddy | CESS | Hyderabad |
| Avinash Samal | Affiliated to CESS | Hyderabad |
| Indranil Bose | St. Xaviers College | Kolkata |
| Siddhartha Mitra | CUTS | Jaipur |
| Bipul Chatterjee | CUTS | Jaipur |
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