An alumnus of IIMB’s Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy & Management batch of 2007-09, Umesh Kumar Shukla has some of his research papers published in reputed national and international journals
13 January, 2022, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore is proud to announce that the school’s alumnus Umesh Kumar Shukla (PGPPM 2007-09) has been elevated to the post of ‘Chief Adviser Cost’ in the Government of India, in Level 17 in the Seventh CPC Pay Matrix (Secretary equivalent), with effect from January 01, 2022.
The Chief Adviser Cost (CAC) is the Cadre Controlling for the Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS), which advises the Ministries and Government Undertakings on cost accounts matters and undertakes cost investigation work on their behalf. The office of CAC deals with matters relating to costing and pricing, studies for determining fair prices, studies on user charges, cost-benefit analysis of projects, studies on cost reduction, cost efficiency, appraisal of capital intensive projects, profitability analysis and application of modern management tools evolving cost and commercial financial accounting for Ministries/Departments of the Government of India.
Some of the publications of Umesh Kumar Shukla include research papers in reputed national and international journals. Such papers are on themes such as, ‘Analysis of competition and market power in wholesale electricity market in India’ (2011); ‘Energy Policy’ ; ‘The potential of electricity import to meet the future electricity requirements of India’ (2017); ‘The Electricity Journal’ and ‘Analysis of UMPPs’ framework’ (2010); ‘Journal of Indian Business Research’; a monograph on ‘Analysis of competition and market power in wholesale electricity market in India’ (2009), and a working paper on ‘The impact of power exchanges on electricity prices in the wholesale electricity market in India’ (2010) published by IIMB.
The Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM) is the one-year-full-time Master of Management Studies (Public Policy) programme of IIMB. Catalyzed by the Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the PGPPM is packed with path-breaking insights about winning policymaking and management strategies.