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Taking stock of where our agriculture stands
Divyata Joshi
The 18th G20 summit themed ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (One Earth, One Family, One Future) was successfully hosted by India last month resulting in the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration. Established...
Counting rural women’s labour
Shiney Chakraborty
The unpaid, unaccounted and underpaid contribution of rural women, not only in agriculture but the overall rural economy, must be counted, along with the inclusion of landless, marginal women farmers...
Performance Grading Index on quality of school education in Assam
Prayashi Goswami
The recently released Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) 2020-21 & 2021-22 is a critical tool for assessing school education performance at the district level. The comprehensive...
Irregular PF contributions because of temporary and subcontracted jobs: What latest EPFO data reveals
Shiney Chakraborty
The Government of India has been publishing the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data since 2017. EPFO’s latest provisional payroll data released on August 20 highlights that 4.86 crore...
Indian schools are unprepared to deal with heat waves that are already disrupting education
Protiva Kundu
The effect of rising temperatures on learning will be borne by the poor and marginalised, but the matter has still not received the policy attention it needs. In the sweltering heat, no...
Financial inclusion critical for building sustainable Indian cities
Sanchari Mukhopadhyay
Urbanisation has been on the rise in India, with an increasing number of people moving from rural areas to urban cities in search of better opportunities. This has led to tremendous pressure on urban...
India’s 2023-24 WASH Budget: Gaps in fund utilisation despite hike in budget allocation
Swarupa Das
What does the 2023-24 budget mean for WASH? India has made commendable progress in the field of sanitation and water since the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) and the Jal Jeevan Mission...
What does cluster development programme mean to India’s small farmers?
Nivedita Sharma
CDP has the potential to benefit farmers; however, asymmetric power relations can make farmer-producer organisations captive markets for the goods produced and marketed by big companies A fair...
केंद्र सरकार के सामाजिक कल्याण से सम्बंधित फंड का क्या हुआ?
Nilachala Acharya
केंद्रीय बजट सार्वजनिक चर्चा पर हावी रहा जबकि केंद्र प्रायोजित योजनाओं के...
What do Union budgets mean for long-term agri development in India?
Gurpreet Singh
Union & state budgets need to place equal emphasis on sector-wide improvement & individual farmer-centric measures In recent decades, the crisis in the agriculture and allied sectors (AAS) and the...
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