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Financing: Heatwave Preparedness needs Social and Disaster Policy Lens

Soutrik Goswami and Subrata Rath

• 11 March 2024
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Heatwave Preparedness in India need more comprehensive financial approach. The article presents the need for a social and disaster policy lens for financing India's Heatwave...

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COVID-19 and the need for Family-Based Alternative Care for Children in India

Revati Patil, Protiva Kundu

• 9 June 2023
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Providing a safe and non-hostile environment for growth is every child's right. In India, institutional care is used as the predominant response for Children in Need of Care and Protection (CNCP) and...

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Political Economy of Women and Work

Aishwarya Bhuta

• 4 March 2022
• SAGE
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This book review article is based on two books, Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production (2020), by Farah Naz and Dieter Bögenhold; and Political Economy of Caste,...

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Poor Connectivity, Shattered Dreams: Is Bridging Digital Divide Easier Said Than Done?

Protiva Kundu

• 1 December 2020
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The article discusses the experience of online education and digital divide for students during the ongoing pandemic. It also highlights the NEP’s boost to online learning and the edtech...

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Sanitation Budgets: The Road from Total Sanitation Campaign to Swachh Bharat Mission

Trisha Agarwala

• 15 October 2020
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Given that WASH solutions are critical in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of prioritising WASH has substantially increased. This piece presents the genesis and number story of...

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Inclusivity in School Education and the Budget: Case of Children with Disabilities

Protiva Kundu

• 10 October 2020
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As a signatory to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, India is committed to ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for vulnerable children. However, children...

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Fiscal Challenges in Scaling Up Nutrition Interventions: Insights and Policy Implications

Saumya Shrivastava, Nilachala Acharya, Chandrika Singh, Vani Sethi, Richa S Pandey, Rabi Parhi, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Abner Daniel and Preetu Mishra

• 29 June 2019
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Four states-Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh-together account for around 45% of stunted children in India. The existing literature makes a case for delivery of a host of specific...

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Deteriorating Quality of Education in Schools: Are Teachers Responsible?

Protiva Kundu

• 15 June 2019
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The role of government school teachers in India is being questioned because of the deteriorating learning levels of children. There is constant criticism of teachers’ performance on the grounds...

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Delivering Nutrition to Pregnant Women Fiscal Bottlenecks in Purnea, Bihar

Chandrika Singh, Saumya Shrivastava, Gaurav Singh, Nilachala Acharya

• 18 May 2019
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To reduce the burden of maternal undernutrition in India, select nutrition interventions are delivered to pregnant women at scale through the National Health Mission. But in Purnea, a district in...

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NITI Aayog’s ‘Three Year Action Agenda’: What Is There for Education?

Protiva Kundu

• 7 May 2018
• Economic and Political Weekly
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India’s developmental planning, which started in 1951, came to a conclusion in March 2017 with the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan. After the dissolution of the Planning Commission, the...

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