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Urban Administration and Management;
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Urban Planning, Governance and Management of Basic services;
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Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development;
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Public Health Engineering - Water Supply and Sanitation;
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Institutional Strengthening and
Capacity
Building;
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Urban Police Administration - Maintenance of Law and Order;
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Human Resource Development in the sector related Organizations;
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Co-operatives ; and
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Financial Organizations;
1. The Advisory Committee:
The management of the centre
rests on a two-tier structure. Entrusted with the stellar role and
responsibility of formulating the performance plan, the Advisory
Committee guides, monitors and ensures congruence between the
academic activities and programmes of the centre and the National
Plans & Policies.
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Principal secretary, MA & UD, Govt. of A.P:..............................................................
Chairman
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Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of
India:................................ Member
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Secretaries to the Government in the Department of Urban
Development of
Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and Pondicherry:........................................................
Member
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Director, Municipal Administration Govt. of A.P:.........................................................
Member
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Director, Indian Institute of Public Administration:
.................................................... Member
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Head, Department, Public Administration, OU:
.........................................................
Member
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Director, RCUES-OU:..............................................................................................
Member Convener
2. The Governing Council:
The Govt. of
India and the OU. have entered into Memorandum of Understanding
which paved the way to creation of Governing Council - the second
tier of the structure to facilitate close monitoring of the
performance and to address the needs of administration and
management of the centre.
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The Vice - Chancellor, OU
...............................................................
Chairman
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Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India
........................ Member
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Secretary, Urban Development. Govt. of Karnataka
........ Member
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Secretary, Municipal Admn., & Water Supply Dept. Govt. of
Tamilnadu
...... Member
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Senior Professor, RCUES, OU
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Member
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Director, RCUES-OU...........................
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Member-Convener
3. The
Mission
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·To undertake applied research in urban development, urban
infrastructure, operations and maintenance of basic
services, financial planning and administration and the
related functions;
·To organize need responsive skills and knowledge transfer and
training programmes for the personnel - elected as well as the
civil service cadre, in the urban sector management;
·To generate and disseminate information pertinent to policy
planning, strategy formulation, action planning, programme
implementation and management; and
· To facilitate synergetic interaction between academics and
practitioners through project based re-training facilities and
extension education programmes.
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In response to the increasing demand for empirical or project
specific research and training, the thrust of Research and
Training efforts are constantly synchronized to support and
facilitate positive leveraging of resources in the following areas
of Policy planning and management, Poverty alleviation,
Infrastructure and housing
Designing,
Developing and Monitoring programmes pertaining to Poverty
Alleviation, Infrastructure Re-engineering and Management, Water
Supply and Sanitation, Housing and Shelter Up-gradation,
Environmental Conservation, Women and Child Welfare, Health &
Medical Services, Capacity Building, Institutional Strengthening
etc., constitute the current stream of topics for
research and training initiatives
· In fulfilling the tasks, the RCUES-OU has forged academic and
professional links with - UNICEF, DFID, WORLD BANK,
UNDP, WASH, USAID and - The Universities of Birmingham, London and
Loughbourough, The Human Sciences Research Council, Republic of
South Africa and The Institute of Urban and Housing Studies,
Rotterdam
4. The Activities:
Human Resource Development and Management
Human Resource Development and Management occupies an important
niche in the training agenda of the centre. Diagnostics for
Organization Re-engineering, Capacity Building and Institutional -
strengthening constitute a significant share of the applied
research activities. The RCUES - OU shoulders the role of
catalyst as well as facilitator in re-engineering organization
structures, systems and staffing including Training Need
Analysis, Designing and Action Planning pertaining to employee
Training, Training of Trainers and implementation of the
Training Action Plans. Following are a few of the research
studies in progress. The research component involved
most complex dimension of personnel management - job
specifications recruitment, placement, job-rotation, career
planning and development. The training programme under the
collaboration involved all carders, in a wide band of
topics-operations and maintenances personnel finance and Accounts,
consumer services etc.
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Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board - Organisation
Re-engineering and Diagnostics:
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Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board -
Organisational Re-engineering and Diagnostics:
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Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran - Organisational Re-engineering and
Diagnostics:
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Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank - Organisational
Re-engineering and Diagnostics:
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Andhra Pradesh State Finance Corporation - Organisational
Re-engineering and Diagnostics:
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Andhra Pradesh State Trading Corporation - Executive Development
Programme.
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Urban Police Administration - Improving interface with Public -
Hyderabad City police.
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Micro Level Planning for Sustainable Development -Kuppam:
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Andhra Pradesh State Housing Corporation Ltd. VAMBAY Scheme -
Impact Study
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Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY)
The Ministry of Urban
Development and poverty Alleviation Govt. of India, introduced
Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) to provide gainful
employment to the urban unemployed or under-employed by
integrating the earlier UBSP, NRY and PMIUPEP. The Government of
India identified the RCUES - OU, as one of the National Training
Institutes for organizing the training programmes to the municipal
functionaries and the elected representatives of Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and the
Union
Territories of Pondicherry and Andaman and
Nicobar Islands.
5.Research Publications :
Project specific research constitutes the bedrock of all the
academic programmes of the RCUES-OU. Every training programme is
proceeded by an in-depth study of the performance milieu, the
practices, procedures, constraints and problems pertinent to the
function under focus including the ways and means for transfer of
appropriates knowledge and skills to ensure faculty response to
the learning situations back at the centre.
The second dimension of research relates to critical and
objectives analysis of policies, strategies and action plans, The
RCUES-OU, has earned exceptionally high level of acceptance of its
study procedure and the reliability of research output. Most of
the research output in this category remain the property of the
sponsorers and therefore can be published only with their
approval. In furtherance of the knowledge frontiers, scholars in
the cognate subjects, however, are provided unhindered access to
the available information base.
The faculty in addition to being involved in the institutional
research also carry out research on their own initiative and
subject of specialization with the proactive institutional
support. The research output after due permission is published in
the form of books, reports, occasional papers, articles in
professional journals, etc.
Another feature of the research activity of the centre is the
publication of Urban Statistics and Solid Waste Management
in Urban Local Bodies The Indian Experience - These
publications have proved very useful to scholars as well as
practitioners.
6.
Library:
An unique library with an excellent collection of sector related
literature of over 20,000 books, reports and other publications,
is a hard
earned asset the Centre. Over 60 journals, national as well as
international are subscribed to assist the faculty, scholars as
well as
trainees interested in furthering the frontiers of their
knowledge.
7. Infrastructure:
The RCUES, OU is probably the first organization on the OU campus,
where the faculty as well as the administrative staff are
provided with
access
to computer systems Individually, the office architecture is
modeled on the concept of self - reliant work stations.
There are 2 large air-conditioned conference halls equipped with
state of art audio/video conference systems with a seating
capacity of
85
and 60 separately. In addition to the conference halls the
training infrastructure includes, 2 smaller rooms of a seating
capacity of 25
each
with audio/video facilities for group discussion and a large
classroom for 50.
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