Blogs
Year: 2022
GM mustard: Need to address economic issues of using the crop
Santosh Verma
Genetically modified (GM) mustard recently received the Centre’s environmental clearance. The approval received severe backlash, with the critics pointing out how little we know about...
Contract farming is yet to make a mark in Punjab; here is why
Nivedita Sharma
A 52-year-old, better-off farmer from Sehjo Majra in Ludhiana district of Punjab has been practising contract farming for more than 20 years. This farmer contracts with four companies — Pepsico Pvt...
Budget Transparency in the Times of the Pandemic: Findings of the Open Budget Survey 2021
Nilachala Acharya
When a country’s budget process is open, public money is better used on public needs, which in turn builds trust among the people in fiscal governance and public sector delivery of services....
Providing an enabling policy atmosphere’
Ingrid Srinath
Many countries across the world provide tax incentives for donations made to civil society organisations (CSOs) as a policy measure to help these organisationsas well as acknowledge the critical...
Mere Fiscal Commitment Isn't Enough to Promote Education of Scheduled Castes
Jawed Alam Khan
Major challenges plague the Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Castes (PMS-SC) even after the renewed fiscal commitments and revised guidelines. The most important scheme for aiding...
Charitable organisations help others, but for that they need an enabling policy atmosphere
Malini Chakravarty
In early-April 2020, when many of us were still trying to adapt to the precautions needed against COVID-19, figuring out stringency levels of lockdown of different color-coded zones of the country,...
India’s new budget: much fanfare, missed opportunity
Happy Pant
India presented its latest Union Budget (for FY 2022 -23) in early February amid much hope, as the country is still reeling from the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, which has lasted for two...
Union Budget Lacks Focus on Climate Change Adaptation
Jyotsna Goel
The Union Budget 2022-23 underpinned climate action among the four priority areas of the government along with PM Gati Shakti, inclusive development and energy transition. By including clean energy...
Decoding Health Budget 2022-23: The Good and the bad
Simonti Chakraborty
The Union Budget 2022-23 rode on the back of a myriad of expectations for different sectors emerging out of the context of the pandemic. The provisions to be made for the health sector were...
Does the Union Budget 2022-23 Offer Inclusive Recovery for School Education?
Protiva Kundu
School closure in India is going to reach its 82nd week. Due to this extended closure, over 247 million students all over the country had their learning disrupted, increasing the pre-existing...
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