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National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
File:National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) logo.png
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) logo
Agency overview
Parent departmentMinistry of Finance, Government of India
Websitehttps://www.nipfp.org.in/

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) is an autonomous research institute under India's Ministry of Finance.

History[edit | edit source]

Based in New Delhi, India, the centre conducts research on public finance and contributes to the process of policy-making relating to public finance. The NIPFP also works jointly with the Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance to research the effects of past economic policy.[1]

NIPFP is overseen by a governing board comprising a chairman and representatives from the Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission of India and Reserve Bank of India. Urjit Patel is the present chairman and R Kavita Rao is the present director of the institute.[2] The previous director was Pinaki Chakraborty[3] and chairman was Vijay Kelkar.

Campus[edit | edit source]

Spread over an area of 3 acres, the institute is situated near Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology. The campus consists of two academic and an office block, residential quarters, a hostel (guest house).[4]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. Government of India, Department of Finance. Accessed 21 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Faculty Archived 4 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "NIPFP - Home page". NIPFP.
  4. ↑ Infrastructure Archived 6 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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