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The Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), is a premier autonomous institution in India for public administration studies. Situated in New Delhi, India, it was inaugurated on March 29, 1954 by the first Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The IIPA is an autonomous body under the Registration of Societies Act. Its establishment was an outcome of a survey of public administration in the country carried out in 1953 by Dean Paul H. Appleby(Other Reference), the renowned Professor of Public Administration and consultant to Ford Foundation.

Purpose of establishing this Institute was to undertake such academic activities as would enhance the managerial capabilities and leadership qualities of the executives in the government and other public service organization.

Objective

 * to undertake, organize and facilitate study courses, lectures and conferences and research in matters relating to the machinery of government and public administration.


 * to provide and promote for the study of economic and political science and public administration with special reference to the machinery of government and public administration and for educational purposes incidental thereto.


 * to manage information services to facilitate the study of spreading information and public administration in regard thereto, and


 * to undertake and provide for the publication of research papers and of journals and books.

Activities
Activities Schedule by the Institute are organized in four inter-related areas of Research, Advisory, Consultancy Services and Training and Dissemination of Information. While the Institute undertakes research studies on substantive issues at its own initiative, it conducts, research in specific areas of practical importance, which are normally sponsored by the Government and national/ international organizations. Institute also offers consultancy services in operational areas to the Public Sector Undertakings and Government. Institute conducts a good number of short-duration and long training programmes. Besides two organs Indian Journal of Public Administration and Nagarlok, the Institute also publishes monthly Newsletter and a bibliographic journal Documentation in Public Administration.

Besides the Publications wing of the Institute has published over 250 books over the last fifty years. About 60 of these publications are available presently. Recently it has started another half yearly journal in Hindi named 'Lok Prashasan', Prof S.N. Mishra is Editor of Hindi journal, Dr. S.L. Goel is Editor of IJPA, Mr. Sunil Dutt is Assistant Editor.

IIPA Library
The Indian Institute of Public Administration, is one of the major social science resources in India.It is a depository library for the publications of the World Bank and has been accorded depository library status for the publications of International Monetary Fund. The World Bank has recently set up a state-of-the-art Information Kiosk in the Library to facilitate on-line access to the knowledge edge portals of the Bank and its associate institutions.It has a collection of about 200,000 volumes of books and periodicals and receives 350 current periodicals.

With more than 200,000 volumes, it is one of the biggest Libraries on Social Sciences in Asia and the biggest in India.

State Public Administration institutes in India

 * Haryana Institute of Public Administration
 * Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration
 * Shri Krishna Institute of Public Administration
 * Harish Chandra Mathur Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration (HCMRIPA),Jaipur
 * Mahatama Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab
 * Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration(LBSNAA),Mussoorie
 * National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
 * National Institutes of India
 * Training Division, Department of Personnel & Training, Government of India
 * National Archives of India
 * Government of India Ministries, Departments and other Agencies
 * State Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (SIPARD),Tripura
 * Anna Institute of Management
 * Administrative Training Institute
 * RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal

OA_e-Resources

 * Registry of Open Access Repositories
 * OAISTER (Open Archives Initiative)
 * Directory of open access journals
 * Resource Discovery Network
 * J-Gate journals
 * Directory of Open Access Repositories
 * Rare Books on India
 * Digital Library of India
 * eGyanKosh
 * Sakshat
 * vidyanidhi

Technology

 * Cataloging
 * Digitization
 * Electronic Databases
 * Institutional Repositories
 * Improving Access (open_url, metasearch, metadata harvesting, etc.)
 * Library Systems (integrated systems, automated systems, circulation systems)
 * M-Libraries(mobile access to library resources - cell phones, PDAs, mp3 players, etc)
 * Online Library Card Registration and e-Card Services
 * OPACs