{{Short description|Research institute in India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}} {{multiple issues|{{primary sources|date=December 2013}} {{third-party|date=December 2013}} {{more citations needed|date=September 2009}}}} {{Infobox government agency | name = National Institute of Public Finance and Policy | logo = National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) logo.png | logo_caption = National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) logo | parent_department = Ministry of Finance, Government of India | website = https://www.nipfp.org.in/ }} '''The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy''' ('''NIPFP''') is an autonomous research institute under India's Ministry of Finance.
== History == Based in New Delhi, India, the centre conducts research on public finance and contributes to the process of policy-making relating to public finance. The NIPFP also works jointly with the Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance to research the effects of past economic policy.<ref>[http://dor.gov.in/nipfp National Institute of Public Finance and Policy]. Government of India, Department of Finance. Accessed 21 May 2012.</ref>
NIPFP is overseen by a governing board comprising a chairman and representatives from the Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission of India and Reserve Bank of India. Urjit Patel is the present chairman and R Kavita Rao is the present director of the institute.<ref>[http://www.nipfp.org.in/faculty Faculty] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704061805/http://www.nipfp.org.in/faculty|date=4 July 2013 }}</ref> The previous director was Pinaki Chakraborty<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nipfp.org.in|title=NIPFP - Home page|publisher=NIPFP}}</ref> and chairman was Vijay Kelkar.
==Campus== Spread over an area of 3 acres, the institute is situated near Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology. The campus consists of two academic and an office block, residential quarters, a hostel (guest house).<ref name="nipfp1">[http://www.nipfp.org.in/content/infrastructure Infrastructure] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606065654/http://www.nipfp.org.in/content/infrastructure|date=6 June 2013}}</ref>
==See also== *National Council of Applied Economic Research *List of think tanks in India
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.nipfp.org.in}}
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