As a research organisation PAC endeavours to bring out various outputs. The reports created primarily are part of a project delivery requirement, some of the reports are based on topics of national and state interest. The research teams ensure that the reports are evidence-based and also represent facts which could be translated into key elements in some of the policy making processes.
Citizen Monitoring of Fair Price Shops in the Public Distribution System
The Public Affairs Centre (PAC) was mandated in this project to embark on the journey to identify a standardised process of citizen monitoring of Fair Price Shop (FPS) in all the 30 districts of Karnataka to increase transparency of 180 FPSs.
Public Affairs Index-2020
Governance in the States of India (Webinar)
Public Affairs Foundation (PAF) and The Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), Karnataka
Regional Branch co-hosted a webinar webinar on “Public Affairs Index 2020
Governance in the States of India”
Public Affairs Index (PAI) 2020 Summary Report
The Public Affairs Index (PAI 2020) is a scientifically rigorous, data-based framework that measures the quality of governance at the subnational level and ranks the states and Union Territories (UTs) of India on a Composite Index (CI). States are classified into two categories- large and small- using population as the criteria.
Enhancing School Management Outcomes: Community Ownership and Social accountability
The purpose of this report is to define the problems afflicting public school management in Karnataka and to provide solutions from the perspective of a community.

COVID – 19
Plan for Restarting Economic Activities and Guidelines for Social Life Post Lockdown – 4.0 Recommendations to the Government of Karnataka
As we begin the month-long lockdown 5.0, the focus has shifted to Unlock 1.0.

COVID – 19 A Macroeconomic Management Plan Recommendations to the Government of Karnataka
This report is for the Government of Karnataka to provide broad data-based predictive analysis of the economic fiscal stress that the COVID- 19 pandemic and its after effects will exert on the state.

COVID–19 Contingency Plan and a Phased Lockdown Exit Strategy – Second Report
This is the second updated contingency plan and lockdown exit strategy developed for the Government of Karnataka by the Centre for Open Data Research (CODR), the analytics arm of the Public Affairs Centre.

COVID – 19 Contingency Plan and a Phased Lockdown Exit Strategy Recommendations to the GoK
This contingency plan and lockdown exit strategy is meant to serve as a guidance document to assist the state government in evidence-based decision making in its ongoing COVID 19 response.

Interim Evaluation of KGMSDC Project – Final Report
Assessment of Karnataka-German Technical Training Institute [KGTTI] as Model Multi Skill Development Centres
The interim evaluation of the KGMSDC project presented in this report uses parameters such as inclusiveness, relevance, expectations, convergence and service delivery to…

MGNREGS Summary Report
The study, titled “India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS): Has it Impacted poverty?”, was undertaken in the Chitradurga district in the state of Karnataka, with the focus being on two critical objectives…

















