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Does Mission POSHAN 2.0 Have the Ammunition it Will Need to Be Successful?
Happy Pant and Shruti Ambast
Government budgets should be based on a sound diagnosis of the problem and a clear-sighted blueprint for addressing the challenges elicited. Last month, data from Phase I of the NFHS-5 survey...
How Union Budget 2021-22 can support the women workforce
Drishti Rastogi
There are 149.8 million women workers, out of which 121.8 million are in rural areas and 28 million in urban areas, according to Census 2011. Yet, women constitute only 18.6 per cent of the...
Union Budget 2021-22: Time to step up public investment in nutrition
Shruti Ambast
The socio-economic shock of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is predicted to increase child wasting (low weight-for-height) by 14.3 per cent in low- and middle-income countries....
Union Budget 2021-22 must protect allocation for children even after pandemic
Simonti Chakraborty
The upcoming Union Budget 2021-22 can be pivotal for India’s children even as we move towards recovery from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Children have largely remained...
This Year's Budget Is Critical to Ensure a Comprehensive Nutrition Response
Happy Pant
The pandemic led disruptions of nutrition services have exacerbated India’s existing burden of undernutrition. Children did not get the mid-day meals and supplementary nutrition under...
What education budget 2021-2022 needs to focus on
Protiva Kundu
The upcoming Union Budget 2021-22 assumes huge importance in mitigating India’s economic crisis and disruption across social sectors brought on by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
A Gender-Discriminatory Crisis Requires a Gender-Responsive Union Budget
Shruti Ambast and Drishti Rastogi
Following a year that was particularly difficult for women, the Union Budget 2021-22 must deliver on key schemes and sectors which are important for women’s welfare and gender equality. In 2020,...
Budget 2021-22 should provide for sustainable water supply, soaps under PDS
Trisha Agarwala
The upcoming budget for financial year 2021-2022 is unique not only because it is the first one after a pandemic was announced, but also because it will be India’s first paperless Budget...
The idea of a COVID-19 cess: Good for the Centre, bad for states
Malini Chakravarty
The expected sharp contraction of the economy in the wake of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic-induced lockdown has meant that tax revenue collections of the central government have...
Union Budget 2021-22: What should be the priorities for agriculture?
Gurpreet Singh
The agriculture sector has continued to serve as a lifeline at a time when the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has hurt every economic activity in an unprecedented manner. It has not...
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