'Indo-China growth needs policy norms for development & law'

NEW DELHI: Rapid and significant economic development between India and China require their citizen and policy makers to creatively develop framework of policy norms to meet the numerous challenges of development, governance, and law, say experts.

An international conference on "Development Governance and Law in China and India" held here early this week discussed issues related to development challenges for both the countries on sustaining development in reference to education, health, environment, food security, governance and comparative perspectives on democracy to legal reforms.

The Sonepat-based O P Jindal Global University, which organised the conference in collaboration with New York University Shanghai and Shanghai Jian Tong University, said in a release that several academicians at the conference presented their case studies, view points and papers on China and India which also gave comparative perspectives.

New York University Shanghai Vice-Chancellor Jeffrey S Lehman said, "over the past 25 years these two countries have achieved more rapid and significant economic development and rapid poverty reduction than the rest of the world."

He said the nature of these economic developments has raised questions about importance of law in governance.

O P Jindal Global University's Vice-Chancellor C Raj Kumar said, "the unique contexts of the two countries require their citizen and policy makers to creatively develop frameworks of understanding, and policy norms, to meet the numerous challenges that their complexity poses."

He said that many of these challenges and some of the central ones can be categorised in terms of issues of development, governance, and law.