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OBJECTIVES OF THE
INDIA POLICY INSTITUTE
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[A] Trust
Deed of the India Policy Institute.
IPI began
as an internet mailing list on the 8th of April, 1998 and later became an informal
association. IPI was formally registered
as a Trust in Hyderabad on the 16th
of April, 1999 under S 12AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
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Section
12AA: Procedure for registration
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(1)
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The
Commissioner, on receipt of an application for registration of a trust or
institution made under clause (a) of section 12A, shall-
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(a)
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call for
such documents or information from the trust or institution as he thinks
necessary in order to satisfy himself about the genuineness of activities
of the trust or institution and may also make such inquiries as he may deem
necessary in this behalf; and
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(b)
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after
satisfying himself about the objects of the trust or institution and the
genuineness of its activities, he-
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(i)
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shall
pass an order in writing registering the trust or institution;
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(ii)
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shall, if
he is not so satisfied, pass an order in writing refusing to register the
trust or institution, and a copy of such order shall be sent to the
applicant:
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Provided
that no
order under sub-clause (ii) shall be passed unless the applicant has been
given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
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(1A)
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All
applications, pending before the Chief Commissioner on which no order has
been passed under clause (b) of sub-section (1) before the 1st day of June,
1999, shall stand transferred on that day to the Commissioner and the
Commissioner may proceed with such applications under that sub-section from
the stage at which they were on that day.
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(2)
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Every
order granting or refusing registration under clause (b) of sub-section (1)
shall be passed before the expiry of six months from the end of the month
in which the application was received under clause (a) of section 12A.
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[B] Objectives of the
India Policy Institute
(1) NATIONAL
DEBATE ON SYSTEM REFORM
To host and facilitate The National Debate on System Reform primarily through
the internet. This debate would focus on the production of A People's Manifesto,
an internally consistent document with various levels of detail compatible
with the rights of, and integrity of, each of us as Free Citizens of India.
The document would essentially amount to to making
explicit the National Social Contract, authorizing specific tasks to
the government and prohibiting it from others not so specified.
(2) PUBLICATION OF
ANNUALLY UPDATED PEOPLE'S
MANIFESTO
To publish, annually, an
updated version of aPeople's
Manifesto
. The first edition will be published on the 1st of January, 2000 AD, and
subsequent editions would be published on the 1st of January, each year,
thereafter, constituting the consensus of as many Indians as possible. This
primary publication of IPI would be on the web or otherwise priced merely to
meet the costs. Other, priced (or free), documents might be published from time to time at the
discretion of the Board.
(3) BUILDING BRIDGES AND COMMUNICATION OF BEST IDEAS
To network with various advocacy
and political economy institutes/ citizens groups all over the world which
seek to determine and influence public policy in India,
in order to involve them in this thinking process. To help communicate and
train people in these best ideas without deviating from the primary purpose.
The National Debate on
System Reform was started as a small debate between friends in April, 1998,
and has, within a short time, reached widely and involved many people, professionals, academicians,
civil servants, social workers, civil society institutions, and others.
The first
preliminary draft of the Peoples' Manifesto is planned to be
circulated by early-1999 to about 10,000 well known Indians for their
feedback, and the final draft will be published on the 1st of January, 2000 AD, to mark the turning
point in India's
history.
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