The Public Policy and Management (PPM) Group at IIM Calcutta, a diverse multidisciplinary group of active researchers and teachers, contribute to the making of future managers in the Asia-Pacific Region. Members of the group address: challenges of policy innovation, governance for public service delivery, relationship between government and industry, and try to influence public policy through high quality academic research and consultancy for policy analysis and programme evaluation.
The faculty are involved in shaping the understanding of key contemporary debates in public management, with specific focus on Management of Institutions for Urban and Rural Development, Business Solutions for Poverty Alleviation, Environment & Sustainable Energy Policy, Education Management, Healthcare Policy & Management, International Geopolitics, Legal Aspects of Business, Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructural & Social Development, Intellectual Property Rights, Management of NGOs, & Citizen Engagement and Emerging Models of Shared Governance.
The Group offers core courses in Indian Economic & Political History, Indian Social Structure, Indian Legal System, and Environment & Development. The Group offers elective courses in the areas of Politics of Development, Country Risk Analysis, Urban Management, seminar on Entrepreneurship, seminar on Development Problems, Social Issues & Social Policy, Rural Development & Social Change, Rural Markets & Agrarian Structure, and Public Systems Management. Members also work closely with other groups of the Institute in offering courses in areas like Information and Communication Technology for Development and e-Governance (offered jointly with MIS).