CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOP
2021-2023:
- CEFT participated in Seminar on Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index organized by Government of Odisha and NITI Aayog.
- CEFT attended A meeting in the “ Pre- Budget Consultation People’s Priorities in Odisha State Budget 2022-23”.
- A seminar on “Kautilya’s Arthashastra” was organized by CEFT on 22nd December 2021. The esteemed speaker was Prof. Pradipta Choudhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
- A Seminar on “How Should India Fund its Democracy?” was organized on 30th December 2021. The esteemed speaker was Dr. Niranjan Sahoo, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi.
- A seminar on “Tax Salience” was organized by CEFT on 4th December 2021. The esteemed speaker was Prof. Dinabandhu Sethi, IISER, Bhopal.
- A Workshop on Union Budget 2022-23 was organized by Madhusudan das Regional Academy of Financial Management on 11th February 2022. CEFT participated in the workshop along with experts from Finance department, Government of Odisha, IIT – Bhubaneswar, etc.
- CEFT attended A Seminar on “State Accounts System” Presented by Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Govt. Of Odisha.
- A Workshop on “Need and Significance of Including Child-related Indicators in the Devolution Formulae by the State Finance Commissions” organized by UNICEF and NIPFP, India.
- CEFT attended a virtual Annual Spring Meetings 2022 in the session on, “Building Capacity on Managing Fiscal Risks: A New Fiscal risk Toolkit” Conducted by IMF HQ.
- A seminar on “A Study of State Budget” organized by CEFT. The esteemed speaker was Dr Deba Prasad Rath, Office in-charge of Department of Economic and Policy Research, RBI.
- CEFT participated a Commemorative Annual Lecture on the occasion of Madhusudan Jayanti Organized by Madhusudan Das Regional Academy of Financial Management on “Crypto currencies-An Introduction Fin Tech by Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank Of India”.
- Two days exposure visit of officials of Government of Madhya Pradesh along with officials of UNICEF to CEFT on 4th May 2022 for a session on “Financial Management in Odisha During Covid”.
- Financial Stability and Macro Economic Fiscal Policy
- Contemporary Macro-Fiscal Issues
- Financial Stability and Fiscal Policy
- Fiscal Stance and Growth in Odisha : Some Empirical Observations
- How Quality of Expenditure in State Finances Impacts State Economy
- Macroeconomic Effects of Demonetization in India: Policy Simulations using a Macro Econometric Model for India
- International Monetary Fund (South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center)
- Expenditure Control
- Modernizing Cash Managements
- Growing Role of State Finances
- Principles of Revenue and Expenditure Assignment
- Budget Cycle
- Intergovernmental Transfers and Rural Local Governance
- Public Expenditure Control
- Budgetary Data issues in Indian Public Finance
- Health Financing
- Rule Based Fiscal Framework
- The legal Architecture of Intergovernmental Transfers
2019-2020:
- Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Indian Experience
- Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability
- Public Finance Management and Fiscal Policy, Budgeting and Performance
- Issues in State Finance
- Issues in Taxation and Tax Reforms in India
- Tax revenue analysis, Study of Tax Revenue Performance, Institutional Element of Tax Policy and Tax Administration
- GST – Challenges and Opportunities
- Overview of Debt Sustainability Management at Subnational Level
- Issues before the 15th Finance Commission
- Odisha Budget: How to analyze the numbers
- Fiscal Decentralisation and Human Development Financing
- Issues in Gender Responsive Budgeting
- Issues in Child Budgeting
- Budget formulation including improving performance
- Performance budgeting
- Medium-term budgeting
- Cash flow forecasting and management including associated Government banking arrangements
- Commitment Control
- Macro-fiscal forecasting and analysis as a basis for sound budgeting
- Annual budget formulation and preconditions for moving to medium-term budgeting: State-level considerations
- Fiscal risk reporting: good practices, with an example of a fiscal risk statement
- Fiscal risk management and subnational borrowing
- Strengthening Cash Management System
- Introducing commitment controls: common issues, good practices, and State-level considerations
- Webinar on FISCAL RISK MANAGEMENT of SOEs/PSUs
- SARTTAC- Virtual Workshop on Budget Communication for Odisha State
- Webinar on FISCAL RISK MANAGEMENT
- Webinar on Detailed budget preparation and execution during a time of fiscal stress
- Webinar on PREPARING THE FISCAL FRAMEWORK IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY
- COVID 19 and Rural India Third Lecture: Covid 19 and Financing the Rural Poor -Highlighting Kerala’s Model, (Date: June 26, 2020 Time: 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM), Jointly organized by Xavier School of Rural Management and Center of Excellence in Fiscal Policy & Taxation (CEFT), Xavier University Bhubaneswar.
- IMF-Managing Fiscal Risks to Ensure Sound Public Finances and Achieve Macroeconomic Stability in Indian States (Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 03:30 p.m.).
- IMF-Preparing for the 2021/22 budget in time of uncertainty: Managing Fiscal Risk with a simple fiscal framework for Indian States
- IMF-Virtual TA Mission: Medium Term Framework/Macro Fiscal (Odisha)
- “Review meeting on Odisha Gender and Child Budgeting” – 11-12 November, 2019 at XIMB, Bhubaneswar. The purpose of the review meeting is to share the experience and lessons learned from the gender and child budget of Odisha, and for potential of improvement and also get inputs on the way forward for the gender and child budgeting in Odisha.
- Capacity Building Programme on the “State Government Debt Management Functions in Odisha” by RBI – December 20, 2019 at XIMB, Bhubaneswar.
- Odisha Budget Conclave 2020-2021,7th March 2020, Bhubaneswar, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) in collaboration with the Government of Odisha organized the pilot edition of Odisha Budget Conclave, the People’s Budget 2020-21 on the 7th of March 2020.



