Students of the Master of Public Policy undertakes dissertation works in their second year. This research is supervised by a faculty member and examined periodically by a committee. The full reports of dissertations are accessible in the NLSIU library. Below is the list of dissertations accepted for awarding the MPP degree. MPP – 4 Name of the Student Title of the Dissertation Year 1. Ms. Aastha Maggu The Political Economy of Environmental Governance in India : A Review of Environment Impact Assessment Procedures 2019 2. Mr. Abhishek Raj Electoral Finance in India : An Analysis of Laws and Judicial Pronouncements 2019 3. Ms. Aditi Anand Understanding Policy Convergence through the Structural Overlaps of ICDS and NRHM 2019 5. Ms. Amrutha Krishnan R Early Childhood Care and Education : An Explorative Study in Kerala and Karnataka 2019 6. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh Study of Payment Issues and Its Impact in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGREGA) Scheme in Arariya, Bihar 2019 5. Ms.Aarushi Gupta The Political Economy of Environmental Governance in India : A Review of Environmental Impact Assessment Procedures 2017 6. Mr. Bhaskar Simha L N Analysing Electoral System in India vis-a-vis Representation of Scheduled Castes: A Study of Devanahalli and Mahadevapura Assembly Constituencies in Karnataka 2019 7. Ms. Bhawna Agarwal Analysis of Regulated Surrogacy in Indian Context with Respect of Other Countries 2019 8. Ms. Chhavi Banswal Scheduled Caste Farmers and Change in Land-Use Policy : A Study of Few Villages in Ambala District, Haryana 2019 9. Mr. Debopriyo Mazumder Does an Incentive Change Water Usage Behaviour of Households: A Study of Kolkata 2019 10. Ms. Deeksha M Rao Governance Aided Ghettoisation of Urban Slums: A Case Study of Bengaluru 2019 11. Ms. Rodrigues Genesia Calestino Reassessing the Technological Privacy Framework for India 2019 12. Mr. Geo C Varghese Social Capital, Resilience and Coping with Disaster: A Case Study of Pulikeezhu Block Panchayat in Post-Deluge Kerala 2019 13. Mr. Ishaan Bamba Understanding Juvenile Crime through the Sub-culture of Gangs in New Delhi 2019 14. Ms. Ishita Jain International Trading in Health Care Services: The Indian Scenario 2019 17. Ms. Kavya Bharadkar Motherhood in the Urban Poor : Pre-Natal Clinical Maternal Care Through the Public Policy Lens 2019 18. Ms. Kawleen Kalra Climate Change Mitigation : Understanding through the Lens of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India 2019 19. Mr. Kunal Munjal State and Farmers : An Enquiry into the Production Conditions in Indian Agriculture through Policy Discourse 2019 20. Ms. Linitha Mathew Water Scarcity in Bangalore : An Econometric and Social Evaluation 2019 21. Ms. Manavi Das Household Dynamics and Children’s Education in Rural Gujarat : The Working of the Right to Education Act, 2009 2019 23. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh Rebranding Heritage and Culture of Lucknow 2019 25. Mr. Noel Benno Joseph A Critique of Small Finance Bank Model of Financial Inclusion in India 2019 26. Ms. Nissy Solomon Application of Geographic : Information System in Healthcare Planting : A Feasibility Study in the Indian Context 2019 27. Ms. Pragati Tiwari Universal Basic Income : How Promising is the Scheme of Unconditional Guaranteed Cash Transfer in the Context of India 2019 28. Mr. Pranjal Dhaka Informal Institutions for Communal Violence in Western UP: Identifying Enabling and Neutralizing Factors in the Policy Context 2019 30. Ms. Rumaan Mecci Assessing the Need for a National Policy or Legislation for Refugees in India 2019 31. Mr. Sagar Chahar Recruitment and Training Process of Civil Services of India in Reform Framework 2019 32. Ms. Saloni Jain Gender and Migration : A Study of Women Migrant Workers in the Urban Informal Sector 2019 33. Ms. Sanjana Patro Freedom through Livelihood : Studying the Impact of National and State Rural Livelihood Mission on Adivasi Women in Jharkhand 2019 34. Ms. Sarayu Srinivasan Impact of Micro Finance Interventions on Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Tamil Nadu 2019 35. Ms. Shreeja Sen Investigation into the Role of the Director General of the Competition Commission of India 2019 36. Ms. Shivani Malik Assessing the Impact of Mohalla Clinics in New Delhi 2019 37. Ms. Shalini Shivakumar Landscaping India’s AI Policy towards Disaster Management : A Mechanism for Providing Virtual Aid 2019 38. Mr. Siddharth Mishra Keeping Pace with Innovations in Fintech (Overcoming Regulatory Challenges by Using Structured Experimentalism Framework) 2019 39. Ms. Soumya Gupta Public-Private Partnership Models and Access to Universal Health Coverage in India 2019 40. Ms. Sowmini G Prasad Effectiveness of Decentralised Governance of Grazing Commons 2019 41. Mr. Srikanth Ravishanker Shyamala Impact of India’s Digital Growth on Public Opinion: A Study of Fake News, Social Media and Politics in India 2019 42. Ms. Srilakshmi Nambiar Affordable Housing in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram : A Study Based in their Master Plans 2019 43. Mr. Sumit Jain State-Wise Analysis of Indian Competition Law Cases and Median Time Taken to Dispose A Case4 2019 45. Ms. Trishal Kumar Revaluating India’s Foreign Policy : India UK Relations Post Brexit 2019 46. Mr. Upendra Dwivedi Examining the Financial Governments of Municipal Solid Waste Management in India 2019 48. Mr. Vineet John Samuel Regulatory Approaches to Ride Hailing Services Within the Gig Economy: A Comparative Study of Regulatory Principles and Practice. 2019 49. Mr. Vikrant Singh Kushwah “The Lost Souls” : A Study of Under trial Prisoners in Karnataka and the Provision of Legal Aid 2019 51. Mr. Roshan Mishra Exploring the Possibility of Implementing Block Chain Technology Solution in : The Public Services 2019 52. Ms. Ishita Jain Opting Nutraceuticals for Preventive Health Care : An Explanatory Study of Consumer Receptivity in Delhi 2019