Blogs
Year: 2020
The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 on School Education
Shivani Sonawane
India’s ambitions for education are essentially captured in the Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. It is also...
Formula for disempowerment of persons with disabilities
Protiva Kundu and Arman Ali
The department of empowerment of persons with disabilities deals with three legislations governing different aspects of disability, welfare and empowerment of the persons with disabilities. These are...
Tax justice is more important than ever
Neeti Biyani
Not long ago, in September 2019, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board outlined the threat of a pandemic capable of killing millions as imminent. This independent group of experts, convened by the...
Rajasthan needs to invest more in secondary education of girls
Protiva Kundu
There is enough evidence on why girls’ education is important, and what works in educating girls. Much has been done on policies and programmes for increasing girls’ enrolment in school,...
Beg your pardon: Give children food, shelter, education, not alms
Protiva Kundu
A few months back there was a report in a Bengali daily that during COVID-19, the demand for young children of age 6-12 years has sharply increased in the begging market of India. Women with baby...
Government should Spend More, and Worry Less about the Fiscal Deficit
Suraj Jaiswal
Recently, the Indian GDP growth rate for April-July quarter was announced. Since, this was the period when the country was under lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus, it was expected that...
Losing Precious Time: Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education
Vijayta Mahendru
The unfavourable circumstances unleashed by COVID-19 have not spared anyone, but the impact of it has been felt differently by different groups of people. For no other group does it have a...
Challenge of Protecting Human Rights in the Virtual World Beckons Civil Society
Asadullah
The COVID– 19 induced lockdown brought the real world to a standstill, bustling in the virtual world, however, increased like never before. As markets downed shutters e-commerce flourished,...
Nutrition should not be forgotten in the face of pandemic
Rahat Tasneem
Introduction Despite considerable progress made over the decade, India still carries the burden of undernutrition with 38.4, 21, and 35.8 per cent of children under five facing stunting, wasting,...
To No One's Surprise, Online Schooling Has Started Taking a Psychological Toll on Students
Protiva Kundu
The COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown resulted in the closure of schools nationwide. As a result, the Indian school system shifted away from traditional classrooms to a digital...
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