Profile
I am a legal consultant specialising in regulation of health care and public finance in health. He is working on the project on developing audit methodology for measuring quality of healthcare at government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. My areas of interest are financial regulation, legal theory, governance and measurement of governance.

Projects
Projects

• Expert witness to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the National Medical Commission Bill, 2017
• Advised and assisted the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee
• Part of the research team of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission chaired by Justice (Retd.) B. N. Srikrishna

Writings

Financing Common Goods for Health: A Public Administration Perspective from India with Harleen Kaur, Sanhita Sapatnekar and Ajay Shah. In Health Systems & Reform, October, 2019.

Building State capacity for regulation in India by Shubho Roy, Ajay Shah, B.N. Srikrishna, Somasekhar Sundaresan. In Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla (eds.), Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019

How to Modernise the Working of Courts and Tribunals in India by Pratik Datta, Mehtab Hans, Mayank Mishra, Ila Patnaik, Prasanth Regy, Shubho Roy, Sanhita Sapatnekar, Ajay Shah, Ashok Pal Singh and Somasekhar Sundaresan. NIPFP Working Paper 258, March 2019

Diagnosing and overcoming sustained food price volatility: Enabling a National Market for Food by Anirudh Burman, Ila Patnaik, Shubho Roy and Ajay Shah. NIPFP Working Paper 236, July 2018.

The rise of government-funded health insurance in India by Ila Patnaik, Shubho Roy and Ajay Shah. NIPFP Working Paper 231, May 2018

Fair play in Indian health insurance by Shefali Malhotra, Ila Patnaik, Shubho Roy and Ajay Shah. NIPFP Working Paper 228, May 2018

Understanding Judicial Delays in Debt Tribunals by Prasanth V. Regy and Shubho Roy. NIPFP Working Paper 195, May 2017.

Media

• This 6-point economic agenda can help Modi fulfil his promises with Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 May 24
• Supreme Court striking down RBI circular will alter India's financial & judicial landscape with Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 April 8
• A bailout for Jet Airways will fill Indian skies with zombie airlineswith Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 March 22
• Time for India to do away with agricultural land ceiling laws with Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 March 8
• India's woeful land records will have trouble identifying farmers eligible for Rs 500/month with Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 Feb 6
• CBI probe in Chanda Kochhar & ICICI case: Reckless adventurism or sincere activism?, ThePrint, 2019 Jan. 28
• Draconian Essential Commodities Act needs to go if India wants to raise farm incomes, with Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 Jan. 25
• Bankruptcy code is a new deal between the state and businesses in India, with Ila Patnaik, ThePrint, 2019 Jan. 11
• Payment bank entry process considered inconsistent with the rule of law
• Reducing delays in litigation by reshaping the incentives of litigants
• Estimating the impact of the draft drone regulations