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Papers by Chetan Singai

We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendation... more We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendations since its independence. The ontology provides a systemic framework for the analysis. The analysis systematically highlights the aspects that have been heavily emphasised, lightly emphasized, and not emphasized. It highlights the dominant focus of the recommendation on governance, personnel, and regulation, secondary emphasis on funding, infrastructure, and location, and tertiary emphasis on information and temporal policies. It concludes with a critique of the recently proposed Ministry of Human Resource Development's (MHRD) themes for formulating new policies and proposes a framework of logically developing the themes.

Astropolitics, Sep 1, 2020

ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and gro... more ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and growth of space activities in India. The Government of India solicited feedback on SAB 2017 from stakeholders and the public. As it is yet to become law, there is a need to examine SAB 2017 to better understand its proposed pathways to promote space activities effectively. For this purpose, a comprehensive ontological framework of space policy and law based on the extant research and policy literature on the topic is presented. It is a systemic framework, which helps in identifying gaps and recommending pathways for regulating space activities. In this article, the application of an ontological framework is put forward by assessing SAB 2017. The SAB 2017 is assessed by mapping its 31 sections onto the ontology and analyzing the data to highlight the bill’s emphases on the elements, dimensions, and themes encapsulated in the ontology. Lastly, recommendations to bridge the gaps in SAB 2017 for promoting an effective and systematic growth of India’s space activities are advanced.

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2020

Solid waste is a heterogeneous mixture of solid material (biodegradable, non-biodegradable, and i... more Solid waste is a heterogeneous mixture of solid material (biodegradable, non-biodegradable, and inert) that does not have any further use to the society. Research studies suggest an annual per capita rate of increase in solid waste of 1–1.33%. The increasing quantity of such waste is resulting in serious health, aesthetic, environmental, social, and economic problems due to lack of appropriate planning and management. This necessitates the implementation of suitable policies to reduce the risk at all the stages starting from generation and ending with disposal of waste. Generally, the management of solid waste encompasses generation, segregation, storage, collection, transportation, recycling, processing, and disposal. This article presents a logically constructed ontological framework of urban solid waste management. It gives importance to waste management policy, functional elements of waste management, types of waste, sources of waste generation, people involved in waste management, and benefits of solid waste management. It shows the pathways to address the challenge to achieve sustainable solid waste management in the cities. The ontological framework encapsulates a total of 7 * 8 * 3 * 6 * 11 * 5 = 55,440 possible components of the challenge. A critical analysis based on primary and secondary data on urban solid waste management using the framework in Bengaluru, India will help in developing strategies to deal with solid waste. It can be used to systematically map the state-of-the-research on and the state-of-the-practice of urban solid waste management, to discover the gaps, and to bridge the gaps in waste management policy-making.

Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2021

Background: India has the largest burden of the NCDs globally. Screening and identification of cl... more Background: India has the largest burden of the NCDs globally. Screening and identification of clusters with the common risk factors are crucial for early detection, prevention, and control at both individual and population levels. Objective: This study documents a model of cost and time-effective disease screening for NCDs. The model uses a combination of mobile health clinics-based point-of-care diagnostic technologies. The model, for its easy-to-use, cost and time effective operation, should be scalable as a tool for communitybased disease screening and population level NCD surveillance. Method: The study documents the materials and processes of NCD screening camps conducted in Bangalore, India. A time and motion study analysis and cost analysis were undertaken to establish the time and cost effectiveness. Results & Discussion: The Study found out a baseline time and cost components for a camp based NCD screening strategy using the mHealth tools and mobile health facilities. This reinforces the potentials of integration of the NCD screening into the public primary health care centres for effective scaling up and achievement of surveillance as well as monitoring and evaluation of the NCD prevention and control programs in the country.

We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendation... more We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendations since its independence. The ontology provides a systemic framework for the analysis. The analysis systematically highlights the aspects that have been heavily emphasised, lightly emphasized, and not emphasized. It highlights the dominant focus of the recommendation on governance, personnel, and regulation, secondary emphasis on funding, infrastructure, and location, and tertiary emphasis on information and temporal policies. It concludes with a critique of the recently proposed Ministry of Human Resource Development's (MHRD) themes for formulating new policies and proposes a framework of logically developing the themes.

6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20), 2020

Higher education has emerged as one of the most critical factors for the Nation’s economic, polit... more Higher education has emerged as one of the most critical factors for the Nation’s economic, political, social and cultural growth and development. Reforming the higher education sector has become an emergent norm across the globe, especially in the developing world. India is one such emerging nation, witnessing a major shift in its ideological, pragmatic and policy directions in the last few years. The higher education sector in India has witnessed unprecedented expansion. However, given the distinctive social-political-economic context and its complexity in India, expansion in higher education is often linked with ensuring equity and access. Whereas in the developed world, expansion is often associated with quality or excellence in higher education i.e. creating world-class universities. Further, excellence in higher education is arguably the most critical component for the survival, sustenance and growth of the sector. To this end, the paper examines the convergence and divergence...

6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20), 2020

The multiple criteria of ranking, rating and accrediting the higher education institutions in Ind... more The multiple criteria of ranking, rating and accrediting the higher education institutions in India and across globe have become de facto lens for viewing the institutions. There is an increasing number of assessment systems carried down by multiple agencies, with the public policy emphasis on higher education institutions getting assessed, it is necessary to use a systematic and systemic framework that is comprehensive for assessment. For this purpose, the paper proposes an ontological framework for assessment of higher education institutions. The ontology’s dimensions, sub-dimensions, and their constituent elements are derived from higher-education assessment systems that are well known globally and in India. The framework can help higher-education institutions: (a) assess themselves systemically and systematically; (b) highlight the bright, light, blind, and blank spots in their performance; and (c) correct their trajectory to fulfil their vision. Such framework would assist in ...

Astropolitics, 2020

ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and gro... more ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and growth of space activities in India. The Government of India solicited feedback on SAB 2017 from stakeholders and the public. As it is yet to become law, there is a need to examine SAB 2017 to better understand its proposed pathways to promote space activities effectively. For this purpose, a comprehensive ontological framework of space policy and law based on the extant research and policy literature on the topic is presented. It is a systemic framework, which helps in identifying gaps and recommending pathways for regulating space activities. In this article, the application of an ontological framework is put forward by assessing SAB 2017. The SAB 2017 is assessed by mapping its 31 sections onto the ontology and analyzing the data to highlight the bill’s emphases on the elements, dimensions, and themes encapsulated in the ontology. Lastly, recommendations to bridge the gaps in SAB 2017 for promoting an effective and systematic growth of India’s space activities are advanced.

River Research and Applications, 2019

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014

A higher education (HE) system, to be inclusive, should have institutions which are highly differ... more A higher education (HE) system, to be inclusive, should have institutions which are highly differentiated but yet tightly integrated – there has to be a purposive unity in its extensive, complex institutional diversity. It has to include universities, university-like institutions, colleges, and vocational institutions. These institutions have to be differentiated in their emphasis on research, education and service; their focus on the district, state, country, region, and the world; their specialization in the sciences, professions, vocations, fine arts, humanities, and social sciences (SS); and their effect on the scientific, technical, economic, social, and cultural development. Yet they have to act in concert within and for the development of the society. They have to form a coherent, coordinated, albeit complex system to generate knowledge, store it, propagate and promote it, and apply it to the development of the society. We present a method of mapping the HE system using an ontology based on our study “A Higher Education System for a Knowledge Society in Karnataka”. The maps can be used to study the inclusiveness of the system. The method is replicable, extensible, and scalable. It can be used to map and study the differentiation in and integration of any HE system.

We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendation... more We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendations since its independence. The ontology provides a systemic framework for the analysis. The analysis systematically highlights the aspects that have been heavily emphasised, lightly emphasized, and not emphasized. It highlights the dominant focus of the recommendation on governance, personnel, and regulation, secondary emphasis on funding, infrastructure, and location, and tertiary emphasis on information and temporal policies. It concludes with a critique of the recently proposed Ministry of Human Resource Development's (MHRD) themes for formulating new policies and proposes a framework of logically developing the themes.

Astropolitics, Sep 1, 2020

ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and gro... more ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and growth of space activities in India. The Government of India solicited feedback on SAB 2017 from stakeholders and the public. As it is yet to become law, there is a need to examine SAB 2017 to better understand its proposed pathways to promote space activities effectively. For this purpose, a comprehensive ontological framework of space policy and law based on the extant research and policy literature on the topic is presented. It is a systemic framework, which helps in identifying gaps and recommending pathways for regulating space activities. In this article, the application of an ontological framework is put forward by assessing SAB 2017. The SAB 2017 is assessed by mapping its 31 sections onto the ontology and analyzing the data to highlight the bill’s emphases on the elements, dimensions, and themes encapsulated in the ontology. Lastly, recommendations to bridge the gaps in SAB 2017 for promoting an effective and systematic growth of India’s space activities are advanced.

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2020

Solid waste is a heterogeneous mixture of solid material (biodegradable, non-biodegradable, and i... more Solid waste is a heterogeneous mixture of solid material (biodegradable, non-biodegradable, and inert) that does not have any further use to the society. Research studies suggest an annual per capita rate of increase in solid waste of 1–1.33%. The increasing quantity of such waste is resulting in serious health, aesthetic, environmental, social, and economic problems due to lack of appropriate planning and management. This necessitates the implementation of suitable policies to reduce the risk at all the stages starting from generation and ending with disposal of waste. Generally, the management of solid waste encompasses generation, segregation, storage, collection, transportation, recycling, processing, and disposal. This article presents a logically constructed ontological framework of urban solid waste management. It gives importance to waste management policy, functional elements of waste management, types of waste, sources of waste generation, people involved in waste management, and benefits of solid waste management. It shows the pathways to address the challenge to achieve sustainable solid waste management in the cities. The ontological framework encapsulates a total of 7 * 8 * 3 * 6 * 11 * 5 = 55,440 possible components of the challenge. A critical analysis based on primary and secondary data on urban solid waste management using the framework in Bengaluru, India will help in developing strategies to deal with solid waste. It can be used to systematically map the state-of-the-research on and the state-of-the-practice of urban solid waste management, to discover the gaps, and to bridge the gaps in waste management policy-making.

Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2021

Background: India has the largest burden of the NCDs globally. Screening and identification of cl... more Background: India has the largest burden of the NCDs globally. Screening and identification of clusters with the common risk factors are crucial for early detection, prevention, and control at both individual and population levels. Objective: This study documents a model of cost and time-effective disease screening for NCDs. The model uses a combination of mobile health clinics-based point-of-care diagnostic technologies. The model, for its easy-to-use, cost and time effective operation, should be scalable as a tool for communitybased disease screening and population level NCD surveillance. Method: The study documents the materials and processes of NCD screening camps conducted in Bangalore, India. A time and motion study analysis and cost analysis were undertaken to establish the time and cost effectiveness. Results & Discussion: The Study found out a baseline time and cost components for a camp based NCD screening strategy using the mHealth tools and mobile health facilities. This reinforces the potentials of integration of the NCD screening into the public primary health care centres for effective scaling up and achievement of surveillance as well as monitoring and evaluation of the NCD prevention and control programs in the country.

We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendation... more We present an ontological analysis of India's National Higher Education Policy recommendations since its independence. The ontology provides a systemic framework for the analysis. The analysis systematically highlights the aspects that have been heavily emphasised, lightly emphasized, and not emphasized. It highlights the dominant focus of the recommendation on governance, personnel, and regulation, secondary emphasis on funding, infrastructure, and location, and tertiary emphasis on information and temporal policies. It concludes with a critique of the recently proposed Ministry of Human Resource Development's (MHRD) themes for formulating new policies and proposes a framework of logically developing the themes.

6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20), 2020

Higher education has emerged as one of the most critical factors for the Nation’s economic, polit... more Higher education has emerged as one of the most critical factors for the Nation’s economic, political, social and cultural growth and development. Reforming the higher education sector has become an emergent norm across the globe, especially in the developing world. India is one such emerging nation, witnessing a major shift in its ideological, pragmatic and policy directions in the last few years. The higher education sector in India has witnessed unprecedented expansion. However, given the distinctive social-political-economic context and its complexity in India, expansion in higher education is often linked with ensuring equity and access. Whereas in the developed world, expansion is often associated with quality or excellence in higher education i.e. creating world-class universities. Further, excellence in higher education is arguably the most critical component for the survival, sustenance and growth of the sector. To this end, the paper examines the convergence and divergence...

6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20), 2020

The multiple criteria of ranking, rating and accrediting the higher education institutions in Ind... more The multiple criteria of ranking, rating and accrediting the higher education institutions in India and across globe have become de facto lens for viewing the institutions. There is an increasing number of assessment systems carried down by multiple agencies, with the public policy emphasis on higher education institutions getting assessed, it is necessary to use a systematic and systemic framework that is comprehensive for assessment. For this purpose, the paper proposes an ontological framework for assessment of higher education institutions. The ontology’s dimensions, sub-dimensions, and their constituent elements are derived from higher-education assessment systems that are well known globally and in India. The framework can help higher-education institutions: (a) assess themselves systemically and systematically; (b) highlight the bright, light, blind, and blank spots in their performance; and (c) correct their trajectory to fulfil their vision. Such framework would assist in ...

Astropolitics, 2020

ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and gro... more ABSTRACT The Indian Space Activities Bill of 2017 (SAB 2017) seeks to promote exploration and growth of space activities in India. The Government of India solicited feedback on SAB 2017 from stakeholders and the public. As it is yet to become law, there is a need to examine SAB 2017 to better understand its proposed pathways to promote space activities effectively. For this purpose, a comprehensive ontological framework of space policy and law based on the extant research and policy literature on the topic is presented. It is a systemic framework, which helps in identifying gaps and recommending pathways for regulating space activities. In this article, the application of an ontological framework is put forward by assessing SAB 2017. The SAB 2017 is assessed by mapping its 31 sections onto the ontology and analyzing the data to highlight the bill’s emphases on the elements, dimensions, and themes encapsulated in the ontology. Lastly, recommendations to bridge the gaps in SAB 2017 for promoting an effective and systematic growth of India’s space activities are advanced.

River Research and Applications, 2019

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014

A higher education (HE) system, to be inclusive, should have institutions which are highly differ... more A higher education (HE) system, to be inclusive, should have institutions which are highly differentiated but yet tightly integrated – there has to be a purposive unity in its extensive, complex institutional diversity. It has to include universities, university-like institutions, colleges, and vocational institutions. These institutions have to be differentiated in their emphasis on research, education and service; their focus on the district, state, country, region, and the world; their specialization in the sciences, professions, vocations, fine arts, humanities, and social sciences (SS); and their effect on the scientific, technical, economic, social, and cultural development. Yet they have to act in concert within and for the development of the society. They have to form a coherent, coordinated, albeit complex system to generate knowledge, store it, propagate and promote it, and apply it to the development of the society. We present a method of mapping the HE system using an ontology based on our study “A Higher Education System for a Knowledge Society in Karnataka”. The maps can be used to study the inclusiveness of the system. The method is replicable, extensible, and scalable. It can be used to map and study the differentiation in and integration of any HE system.

University and the Industry Linkages in India: A Catalyst for Excellence? Chetan B. Singai Rese... more University and the Industry Linkages in India: A Catalyst for Excellence?
Chetan B. Singai
Research Fellow (EDGE)
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
Email: chetan@nias.iisc.ernet.in, chetansingai@gmail.com

Universities-Industry linkages are important for the universities and/or higher education and the industries to evolve. Higher education in India in the recent past, has witnessed expansion in the last few decades. This expansion is marked by increase in number of universities along with diversity/typologies of universities. In this context, it is interesting to note that the new type of universities i.e., private deemed universities in particular have evolved as the space for reforms and/or for new experiments/innovations for quality/excellence within the higher education sector of the country.
The idea and need for university-industries partnership has evolved since the independence era. Successive commissions/committees have suggested the need for university-industry linkages: Radhakrishna Commission on Education (1948); Thacker Committee (1961), Kothari Education Commission (1966), National Policy on Education (1968 and 1986), Challenge of Education – A Policy Perspective, Ministry of Education, GOI (1985), The National Knowledge Commission (2007) and discourses around university for innovation and innovative universities.
Based on the recent fieldwork in one of the private-deemed university in the state of Karnataka, it is evident that the university-industry linkage is one of the important factors. University-industry linkages in higher education could manifest in: curriculum development (industry representatives in Board of Studies), faculty and student exposure (research and internship linkages, respectively), job placements and in the governance of the university (representatives from industry in Board of Management or Senate/Syndicate of the university) and recent engagements in Corporate Social Responsibility findings (legal mandate, post 2013) and also developing incubators/innovations (Incubation centers).
The proposed paper aims to discuss the role and relevance of university-industry linkages for excellence by examining following two themes: (1) examine key policy discourses highlighting/recommending university-industry linkages, and (2) discuss the case of the private deemed university in the state of Karnataka substantiating the above mentioned dimensions under which university-industry linkages manifests.

Singai, C. (2017). Recognition of Prior Learning, Skill Development and Migration: The Constructi... more Singai, C. (2017). Recognition of Prior Learning, Skill Development and Migration: The Construction Sector in India.Indian Journal of Adult Education, Vol. 78, No. 04. October-December 2017. New Delhi: India

This volume presents comparisons of adult education and lifelong learning with a focus on educati... more This volume presents comparisons of adult education and lifelong learning with a focus on educational policies, professionalization in adult education, participation in adult learning and education, quality in adult education, and educational guidance and counselling. The essays are based on comparisons discussed at the international Winter School «Comparative Studies in Adult and Lifelong Learning», held in Würzburg, Germany, February 2015. Sub-topics of lifelong learning were chosen for an in-depth comparison and analysis of the situation in various European countries and beyond.