let's think ideas india 2009

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Presentation Scheme

Introduction

Inaugural Address: The Idea of Justice

Can Clean Energy Solve the Problem of Inclusive Growth in India?

How Can Health Care Service Delivery Become More Efficient?

Is India not Following the Water Mantra of Reduce, Recycle,

Replenish?

India and China: Forging an Uneasy Alliance? Why the World Needs India, and What Do They Expect from India?


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Inaugural Address: The Idea of Justice

Do Elections in India Reinforce Narrow Divides?lenary Session

Can Clean Energy Solve the Problem of Inclusive Growthin India?

A New Chapter in Indo-US Relations: Undoing the Past?

Do Elections in India Reinforce Narrow Divides?

ConcurrentSession

Explaining Instability in South Asia: A Legacy ofColonialism or Pangs of Rising Diverse Democracies?

Why is India not Following the Water Mantra of Reduce,

Recycle, Replenish?

ConcurrentSession

Day 1


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The Idea of Justice

Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate in Economics, ProfessorEconomics and Philosophy, Harvard University


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''The Idea of Justice'' is based on the philosophy

On climate change talks: By force of idea, we havethe opportunity to present to the world whatshould be done, rather than what should not bedone.

China's leadership brought in reforms on

education and healthcare before market reforms,and that India had much to learn from it on themanagement of the market economy.


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Can Clean Energy Solve the Problem of Inclusive

Growth in India?

Tarun Das,President, Aspen

Institute India

J N Godrej,Chairman of the

Board of Godrej &Boy Limited

Syamal Gupta,Chairman, TCE

ConsultingEngineers &

Special Advisor

Tata InternationalLtd.

Dilip ChenoyDirector General,Society of Indian

AutomobileManufacturers


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Industry efforts must be multiplied in promotingthe use of clean technologies, especially among the

Small and Medium Enterprises. Underscoring the scope for emissions reductions.

Starting with power plants, industrial efficiency,appliances, vehicles and green buildings, clean

technologies can play an instrumental role inpromoting inclusive growth.

R&D for development of new solar technologies

and transferring subsidies from petroleum-basedproducts into the renewable energy sector, whichwould make them more efficient, widely availableand more affordable.


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How Can Health Care Service Delivery Become

More Efficient?

Sudha Iyer,Chairperson and

Managing Director ofHaritas Health

Services

A K MukherjeeDirector General,

Indian Spinal Injuries

Centre

Alkesh Wadhwani,Deputy Director,

Avahan India (Billand Melinda Gates

Foundation)

Bhavdeep Singh,CEO, Fortis

Healthcare Limited

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Given that government as well as private sector spendingon healthcare is much below the World HealthcareOrganisation (WHO) recommended standardsInsurance model for rural areas needs to be created foraffordability, and a management structure needs to beput in place for oversight.

NGOs can also play a key role in the healthcare servicedelivery model in rural areas.

Public-Private Partnership programs.

A healthcare revolution would include addressing the

shortage of doctors and nurses through education andtraining and focusing on accreditation as well asstandardization with a long term view


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Day 2 Minority Matters: Challenges and OpportunitiesPlenary Session Has Corruption Become A Way of Life?

The Art of GivingConcurrentSession Explaining Instability in South Asia: A Legacy of Colonialism or Pangs of

Rising Diverse Democracies?

Why is India not Following the Water Mantra of Reduce, Recycle,

Replenish?

ConcurrentSession

India and China: Forging an Uneasy Alliance?

What Are Young Leaders Bringing to The Development Debate?

Will an Emphasis on Vocational Education Help India Reap itsDemographic Advantage?

ConcurrentSession


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Why is India not Following the Water Mantra of

Reduce, Recycle, Replenish?

NikhilSawhneyExecutiveDirector,Triveni

Engineering

and IndustriesLtd.

SureshPrabhuFormer

Minister forEnergy,

Government ofIndia

Arjun ThapanDirectorGeneral,

SoutheastAsia, Asian

DevelopmentBank

Varun SahniIndia Director,Acumen Fund

Manoj Kumar,CEO, NaandiFoundation


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Social Entrepreneurship and community involvement,supported by institutional frame work can lift the nationout of the water crisis.

Business funds were contemplating involving local waterbodies to local communities and developing businessmodels around it to bring supply clean drinking water tothe people of the rural areas who are forced to buy

unsafe drinking water from the water mafia

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India and China: Forging an Uneasy Alliance?

Indrani BagchiDiplomatic Editor,

Times of India

Paul Beckett,Bureau Chief forSouth Asia, Wall

Street Journal

Nayan ChandaDirector of

Publications andthe Editor ofYaleGlobal

Online Magazine

at the YaleCentre for theStudy of

Globalization

Siddiq Wahid,Vice Chancellor,

IslamicUniversity,Srinagar

Sanjay Labroo,Managing

Director & CEOof Asahi India

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There is a lack of knowledge and understanding

between India and China about each other

China has a huge internal threat problem and is

worried about external forces .

India must learn from China''s growth strategy

of exports and investments.

India''s close relationship with US in recent

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Day 3PlenarySession

ConcurrentSession

Why the World Needs India,and What Do They Expectfrom India?

Lessons of 26/11: Is IndiaSafer?

Empowering Indias Women:Is Enough Being Done?

Can India Chart a NewCourse in the Fight AgainstClimate Change?


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Why the World Needs India, and What Do They

Expect from India?

Gautam ThaparChairman, Aspen InstituteIndia, Chairman and CEO,

Avantha Group

Shashi Tharoor Ministerof State, Ministry of

External Affairs,Government of India andFormer Board Member,

Aspen Institute India

C K Prahalad Paul andRuth McCracken

Distinguished UniversityProfessor of Strategy,

Stephen M. Ross School

of Business, University ofMichigan


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