PRAJAPATI

TRIVEDI
Former Secretary
to the
Government of
India

Bantle Symposium

On Entrepreneurship, Business and

Government Relations

Government Performance
Management: International
Best Practice and Indian
Experience
Until August 2014, Dr. Prajapati Trivedi was Secretary to the Government of India
with the responsibility for Performance Management in Government of India.
Based in the Cabinet Secretariat, he reviewed and reported on the
performance of all government departments to the Cabinet Secretary and
Prime Minister. He designed and implemented the Performance Monitoring and
Evaluation System for Government of India that covers 80 departments and 800
responsibility centers under them. Under his guidance 18 States of the Indian
Union are at various stages of adopting PMES.
During 2009-2014, Dr. Trivedi was involved with a large number of
administrative reforms and helped pioneer implementation of many of them.
Some of his other major contributions are: implementation of Citizens/ Clients
Charter and Grievance Redress Mechanism in government departments, ISO
9001 certification of government departments; E-office implementation; and
implementation of Corruption Mitigation Action Plans. He also served as
Chairman of the National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention,
representing India in the Executive Council of the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, The Netherlands. Today, Indias
National Authority is considered to be an example of best practice globally.
Dr. Trivedi has worked in more than 25 countries of the World and published
four major books on various aspects of public sector management and
privatization. One of his books is still used as an Economics textbook at Harvard
University.

WHEN

Tuesday
February 3rd
1:30 PM 3 PM

WHERE

204 Maxwell Hall

Maxwell School

PARKING

Available in the Irving Avenue

garage at standard rates

R.S.V.P.
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BANTLE CHAIRS
The Louis A. Bantle Chairs were
established in 1990 by Louis F.
Bantle and UST, Inc., and
provides for teaching and
research in entrepreneurship,
business and government
relations. One chair resides in
the Maxwell School and the
other in the Whitman School of
Management.

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