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The Indian Growth Trajectory
Sona Mitra
The article argues that in the current circumstances, where a number of macroeconomic concerns are plaguing the Indian economy ranging from rapid depreciation of rupee and resultant increase in...
Post-Sachar Reservation Politics
Manzoor Ali
The recent attempt to pass a 4.5% sub-quota for Muslims under backward classes has drawn the community into the reservation framework. In this light, it is important to recognise castes within...
Budget for Education
Protiva Kundu
Like most other countries, education has been assigned a high priority in the development policy objectives in India. Despite the intention, however, the expansion of education has been remarkably...
Social Security for the Elderly in India: A Note on Old Age Pension
Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya
In most countries of the developing world, though the importance of universal social security is being increasingly recognized as an integral part of progressive public policy, only a fraction of...
Examining the Priorities for Different Sectors in the Union Budget
Saumya Shrivastava and Kanika Kaul
The Table, in the article, presents the priorities in the Union Budget during 2009-10 to 2013-14 for selected Ministries; the budget for each of the 10 selected Ministries has been compared with the...
Public Provisioning in Water and Sanitation; Study of Urban Slums in Delhi
Gyana Ranjan Panda, Trisha Agarwala
With the changing face of Delhi, delivery of essential services like drinking water and sanitation to the people living in slums ought to be a policy priority for the government. However, public...
Securing Food for All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford?
Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya
Recommendations put forward by relevant committees as well as by independent researchers, the public distribution system continues to suffer from several inherent and systemic flaws. Instead of...
Evaluating the Performance of the National Clean Energy Fund
Gyana Ranjan Panda and Narendra Jena
The National Clean Energy Fund has been created as a funding mechanism ostensibly for research and development in the field of clean energy technologies. So far, the fund has collected Rs. 8,200...
Outlays to Outcomes: Some Issues Relating to Policy and Institutional Bottlenecks (Co- authored)
CBGA
This paper seeks to examine some of the key issues relating to outcome budgeting in India. It begins with a discussion on the genesis of outcome budgeting in the country and goes on to highlight some...
The Missing Link in the Domestic Violence Act
Bhumika Jhamb
Five years after the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 came into force there is no sign of any budgetary provision by the central government to help the states implement it. A...
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