To harness India’s demographic dividend, strategic investment in education is essential. The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan shows how decentralised management can deliver quality schooling. With…
Does caste still dictate occupation and occupational mobility? A socio-economic survey in Uttar Pradesh reveals that aside from modest Dalit upward mobility, the occupational gap between upper-caste…
Unconditional cash transfers empower individuals to address their immediate needs. Yet, this could yield greater benefits if complemented by public goods. The government must acknowledge that cash…
State panchayati raj acts empower bureaucrats to suspend or dismiss elected representatives of local governments, and supersede or dissolve the bodies themselves. Such powers must be scrapped, and…
In the absence of timely data from official agencies, private organizations and researchers have turned to designing large data surveys, often promoted by global philanthropies. There are questions…
The National Education Policy wants research to be a part of undergraduate curricula. To meaningfully engage with this ambition, we need to design a pedagogy of research methods that emphasises local…
Panchayats and municipalities are rarely given their due as the third pillar of federalism. The challenges posed by the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies can be side-stepped by…
State-sponsored health insurance schemes are growing by leaps and bounds in India. Ensuring that they serve the public interest rather than private profit is a major challenge. Insurance apart, what…
Since it was created in 2015, NITI Aayog has neither been able to offer fresh thinking on the economy nor has it functioned as a a mediator between the centre and the states. A federal institution…
The increasing participation of women in work in recent years as revealed by official surveys, especially in 2023-24, appears to arise from definitional changes that now include groups of women as…
