CV Madhukar

CV Madhukar (* 1968 in Andhra Pradesh , India) is an Indian civil society activist and director of PRS Legislative Research (Parliamentary Research Service - Legislative Research ), a not-for-profit research initiative, the Legislative Briefs (short annotated summaries) of draft laws in the House of Commons, Lok Sabha , and House of Lords, Rajya Sabha , of the Indian Parliament and also publishes articles on the work of the Indian Parliament. It aims to strengthen the debates on legislation by making them better informed, more transparent and more participatory. Madhukar started PRS in September 2005. The initiative is currently hosted by the Center for Policy Research, Center for Policy Research .

Most recently, Madhukar worked at the World Bank in Washington DC with a group that focused on countries around the world with parliamentary capacities.

Madhukar began his career in 1993 as an investment banker with ICICI Securities in Mumbai , where he worked on the privatization of large state-owned companies. Still officially employed by ICICI, he mostly worked as a volunteer at Pratham in their first crucial years. Pratham is a not-for-profit organization that aims to promote elementary education in urban India: "CV Madhukar was part of the original Executive Group of Pratham in Mumbai." The ICICI bank was Pratham's largest financier at the time, including personal commitments by the ICICI- Management and the release of Madhukar for the four years of his work there.

At the invitation of the government of the Indian state of Karnataka in the spring of 2000, Madhukar founded and managed together with others the Akshara Foundation , an initiative for elementary education that focuses on Bangalore's children. Madhukar recently founded the Azim Premji Foundation , an initiative of Azim Premji , chairman of the board of directors of Wipro and one of the wealthiest corporate bosses in all of India. The initiative supports the use of modern technology in rural schools in India.

Madhukar is an Edward S. Mason Fellow from Harvard University , where he also earned a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also received an MBA (Finance) from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Bangalore . In 2005 Madhukar was awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship .

Publications

• Anybody in the House? The Indian Express, August 11, 2007
• No debate please, we're MPs The Indian Express, May 21, 2007
• What the call for a bipolar polity right? The Economic Times, May 16, 2007
• PM within the purview of Lokayukta? The Economic Times, February 16, 2007
• House this for debate The Indian Express, January 3, 2007
• Fundamental Right to Learning in: Pratham Resource Center 2007: Learning to read, ASER Discussion Series - Volume 2, Page 30 (PDF file; 2.83 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PRS Core Team on the PRS homepage Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ CV Madhukar: His work on Bills makes it easy for MPs to take part in debates [1]
3. ↑ Faculty: CV Madhukar ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Center for Policy Research 's homepage  
4. ^ Johnson, John K. 2005: The Role of Parliament in Government , p. V ( PDF )
5. ↑ Pratham Resource Center 2007: Learning to read, ASER Discussion Series - Volume 2 , page 31 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 
6. ↑ Akshara Foundation Board on IndianNGOs.com [2]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ The 2003 World Technology Summit & Awards on the World Technology Network 's (WTN) homepage, see section "education" Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Class of 2004 ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Edward S. Mason Program ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Harvard University   
9. ↑ CV Madhukar: Parliamentary Research Service (PRS)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page of Echoing Green  

Web links

• Board of Trustees of the Akshara Foundation (with a picture by CV Madhukar)