Annex: Committee's Visit Programme in
India
The Committee visited India from 9 to 17 March 2011.
Members participating: Malcolm Bruce (Chairman),
Hugh Bayley, Richard Burden, Richard Harrington, Pauline Latham,
Michael McCann, Alison McGovern, Anas Sarwar, Chris White
Accompanied by: David Harrison (Clerk); Anna Dickson
(Committee Specialist)
The Committee divided into two groups for parts of
the visit.
Delhi
Wednesday 9 March
Discussion of the DFID programme in India
Group 1: Bihar
Thursday 10 March
Meetings with:
- DFID Technical Assistance Teams
- Chief Secretary Mr. Anup Mukerji and Principal
Secretaries
- Mr. Prem Kumar, Minister, Urban Development and
Housing
- Mr. Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister
and Finance Minister
- Mr Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister
Field visits to
- Citizen helpline call centre
and SMS monitoring
- Flood Management Information System Project
Friday 11 March
Meetings with:
- Women's Self Help Group, Madhopur
Village, Patna
- Elected Panchayat & Community Members, Medhopur
Village, Patna
Field visits to:
- Anganwadi Centre (Village Nutrition
Centre), Madhopur Village, Patna
- Primary Health Centre, Maner Block, Patna
- Akshar Anchal Centre (Women's Adult Literacy
Programme), Maner Block, Patna
Saturday 12 March
Field visits to
- Gaya City School
- World Bank Assisted Rural Livelihood Project
- The Solid Waste Management Project
- Kapil Dhara Slum
Group 2: Madhya Pradesh
Thursday 10 March
Meetings with:
- Ms Krishna Gaur, Mayor of Bhopal
- Government officials from the Energy Department:
Mr. Mohammad Suleman, Mr. Sanjay Shukla, Mr. Neeraj Mandloi,
Field visits to
- Timber Market (ki jhuggi) Slum
- Micro Finance project
- Jawahar Chawak Bus Depot
- Deepshikha Government School
Friday 11 March
Meetings with:
- Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh
Chouhan
- Chief Secretary Mr Avani Vaish and Government
officials
- DFID technical assistance teams
- UK Trade and Investment
Field visit to:
- NGO project village Mania,
Block Ashta, Sehore
Saturday 12 March
Field visits to:
- Community Health Centre , Maheshwar,
Khargone
- Sakad Anganwadi Centre (early childcare and feeding
centre), Village Sakad, Barwani
- Rural Programme in Village Sakad, Barwani
Sunday 13 March
Meetings with:
- High Commissioner Sir Richard
Stagg
- Representatives from think tanks, NGOs, multilateral
donors and Parliamentarians
Monday 14 March
Discussion on the Impact Investment Portfolio with
private sector representatives:
- Evalueserve,
- Monitor Group,
- Aavishkaar,
- InfraCo Asia,
- SEAF,
- Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
- Acumen Fund,
- National Skills Development Council (NSDC)
- International Financial Cooperation (IFC)
Group 1
Field visit Delhi Seemapuri slum
Group 2
Field visit to garment home workers
Roundtable discussion on Climate change and energy
with:
- Shyam Saran - former senior
diplomat and chief climate change negotiator and member of Prime
Minister's Council on Climate Change
- Surya Sethi - climate policy specialist and climate
negotiator
- Leena Srivastava - Executive Director, The Energy
& Resources Institute (TERI),
- Nitin Desai, Distinguished Fellow, (TERI)
- Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director, Integrated
Research and Action for Development (IRADE)
- Prof N.H. Ravindranath, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
- Harish Hande, CEO, SELCO
- Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and
Environment
- George Varughese, President, Development Alternatives
- Charles Cormier, Environment Sector Coordinator,
World Bank, India
- Vidhisha Samarasekara, Water Resources and Climate
Change specialist, Asian Development Bank, India
Roundtable discussion on nutrition and sanitation
with:
- Dr Ashok Gulati, Chair of the Agriculture Costs
and Prices Commission
- Ms Purnima Menon , Ms Sunita Kadian , IFPRI
- NC Saxena - Member of National Advisory Council
- Biraj Patnaik - Principal adviser for Right to
Food, Office of the Commissioners of Supreme Court of India
- Juan Costain - Regional Team leader for Water
and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Roundtable discussion on Education with, DFID, FCO,
British Council and UKTI
Meetings with:
- Mr Hans Schoof, European Union
- Antje Scholz, German Economic Cooperation and
Development
- Shinichi Yamanaka, Japan International Cooperation
Agency
- Erin Soto, USAID
- Mr Yves Boudot, AFD,France
Tuesday 15 March
Meetings with:
- Ministry of Human Resource
Development Minister, Kapil Sibal
- World Bank
Wednesday 16 March
Visit and tour of Parliament
Meetings with:
- Minister of Environment and
Forests, Minister Jairam Ramesh
- Meeting with Clinton Foundation on Generic Medicines
and Intellectual Property
- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Planning Commission
- Ministry of Finance officials
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