EDUCATION:
1979 MA, International Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
1977 BCom (Hons), SRCC, Delhi University
EDUCATION:
1979 MA, International Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
1977 BCom (Hons), SRCC, Delhi University
Countries: India
States: Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra
Cities:
Languages: English, Hindi
Deepak Sanan is a former civil servant, living in Himachal Pradesh. He retired from the Indian Administrative Service, the centrally recruited senior civil service of India in January 2017. He was posted in the state of Himachal Pradesh in 1982. During the course of his career, he held positions that offered experience in public finance, rural development, cooperatives, water resources and sanitation, health and medical education, urban development, housing, town planning, land administration, power, animal husbandry, agriculture and forests and environment, both to the State Governments and the Government of India.
Deepak Sanan has published regularly on Center-State relationships, in particular, on creating incentives for more effective use of Central funds to overcome State budget constraints and improve governance. He has a special interest in designing schemes of inter-governmental financial transfers that can improve institutional arrangements at state and local government level to enhance the effectiveness of these transfers and service delivery specially, in basic services. He has undertaken many assignments over the years as a consultant with the World Bank, IFAD, DFID, IDS Sussex and AusAid relating to his skills and experience in public finance, urban and rural development and specially in relation to the water and sanitation sector in India. He has also been on the staff of the World Bank as the India Country Team Leader in the Water and Sanitation Program (South Asia) for two years, between 2005 and 2007.
He currently advises the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore on a variety of subjects related to his experience and special interests, such as Land Governance, and issues relating to urban development, water, sanitation and public finance issues.