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Yamini Aiyar
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<p>Yamini Aiyar was the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research. In 2008, she founded the Accountability Initiative at CPR, which is credited with pioneering one of Indias largest expenditure tracking surveys for elementar[]
Bharat Karnad
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<p>BHARAT KARNAD is Emeritus Professor for National Security Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Distinguished Fellow at the United Service Institution of India. His most recent book, <strong><em><a href="http://cprindia.org/books/s[]
Rohit Chandra
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<p>Rohit Chandra is a political scientist and an economic historian working primarily on energy, infrastructure and state capitalism in India. His recent work has covered the coal and power industries. Over the last decade, he has worked in the po[]
Anna Agarwal
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<p>Anna Agarwal was a Visiting Fellow at CPRs Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment. Her research is on understanding Indias energy demand transitions, and identifying ways to lock-in low-carbon energy consumption patterns for the long-t[]
D Shyam Babu
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<p>Mr D Shyam Babu is a senior fellow at CPR. His current research interests include socio-economic mobility among Dalits, liberalisation and social justice, and the role of entrepreneurship in mobility. He has also collaborated with Devesh Kapur []
Suman Bery
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<p>Mr Suman Bery, based in New Delhi, is currently Vice Chairperson at NITI Aayog. He is a Global Fellow in the Asia program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and a Non-resident Fellow of Bruegel, an economic[]
Parth Bhatia
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<p>Parth Bhatia was an Associate Fellow at the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment at the Centre for Policy Research. He works on a broad range of topics related to Indias net-zero transition, and is particularly interested in Indias e[]
Kiran Bhatty
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<p>Kiran Bhatty is a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. She researches governance issues in elementary education, working to build systems of transparency, accountability, and community monitoring. She has focused in particular on developing a methodo[]
Mridusmita Bordoloi
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<p>Mridusmita Bordoloi was an Associate Fellow at Accountability Initiative.</p>
<p>With over 18 years of work experience in the areas of education, labour market, and household sector income and consumption patterns, her current research includes[]
Rajshree Chandra
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<p>Rajshree Chandra is a professor of political science at the University of Delhi and senior visiting fellow at CPR. Her research interests are in the fields of political theory, normative and critical legal theory, science and technology studies[]
Ramesh Chandran
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<p>Ramesh Chandran is a visiting faculty at CPR, and director of the Governance & Public Policy Initiative (GPPI), based at the Centre. GPPI collaborates with universities including Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Tel Aviv University, and the Univers[]
Shahana Chattaraj
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<p>Shahana Chattaraj is a Visiting Fellow at CPR. Her research centres on urban political economy and governance in developing cities, and the socio-spatial, political and developmental dimensions of urbanisation, planning and infrastructure devel[]
Shoumitro Chatterjee
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Shoumitro Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of International Economics at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and a Visiting Fellow at CPR. His research is at the intersection of trade and development economics. One stra[]
Brahma Chellaney
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<p>Brahma Chellaney is a Professor Emeritus of strategic studies at CPR. A specialist in international security and arms control issues, Professor Chellaney has held appointments at Harvard, the Brookings Institution, the School of Advanced Intern[]
Pradeep Chhibber
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<p>Pradeep Chhibber is a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. He studies the politics of India, political parties and party systems. His recent research is on the influence of ideology on party system change, religion and politics, elections and parties[]
Srinivas Chokkakula
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<p>Srinivas Chokkakula is the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research. He is the MoJS (Ministry of Jal Shakti) Research Chair Water Conflicts and Governance at CPR, where he leads the Transboundary Rivers, Ecologies, and []
Philippe Cullet
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<p>Philippe Cullet, Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR, is Professor of International and Environmental Law at SOAS University of London (SOAS).<br />
He works on environmental and natural resources law and policy, with a particular focus on water and []
Harish Damodaran
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<p>Harish Damodaran is a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. He is a journalist with nearly 32 years of experience as a field reporter and editorial analyst with the Press Trust of India, The Hindu Business Line and The Indian Express. Currently Nation[]
Jishnu Das
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<p>Jishnu Das was a Visiting Senior Fellow at CPR and is a lead economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development and Public Services Team) at The World Bank. Jishnus work focuses on the delivery of basic services, particularly healt[]
Shubhagato Dasgupta
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<p>Shubhagato Dasgupta is a senior fellow at CPR and head of the Scaling City Institutions for India (Sci-Fi) Sanitation initiative. His current research focuses on drinking water and sanitation in India and the world, with particular reference to[]
Kaustuv DeBiswas
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<p>Kaustuv is a social entrepreneur with a mission of empowering people through the application of technology.</p>
<p>As a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, he worked with the Land Rights Initiative introducing machine learning in[]
Sabina Dewan
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<p>Sabina Dewan is Founder and Executive Director of the JustJobs Network, which she began with John Podesta in 2013. She is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Carsey School o[]
Navroz K Dubash
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<p>Navroz K Dubash was a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, where he conducted research and wrote on climate change, energy, air pollution, water policy, and the politics of regulation in the developing world.<br />
Navroz has been activ[]
Veronique Dupont
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<p>Vronique Dupont was a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR and is an urban demographer at the French National Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD), where she is part of the CESSMA research unit, namely the Centre for Social Science[]
Anju Dwivedi
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<p>Anju Dwivedi was an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research working in the project, Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI): Sanitation. She is an anthropologist and has been actively engaged with the development sector for over[]
Shibani Ghosh
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<p>Shibani Ghosh was a Fellow with the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), and an Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India. She researched and wrote on issues relating to environmental la[]
Santosh Harish
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<p>Santosh Harish is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Santoshs research interests lie in the areas of energy and environment policy, specifically distribution of electricity, and regulation of air pollution. His training is []
Mallika Joseph
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<p>Mallika Joseph is Visiting Fellow at CPR. Being part of the international relations and security team, her focus is on security sector, human security, conflict prevention and peacebuilding, regional architectures and global governance. She cur[]
Devesh Kapur
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<p>Devesh Kapur was a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR and is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Study of India, he holds the Madan Lal Sobti Professorship for the Study of Contemporary India, and he is an associate professor of political scienc[]
Avani Kapur
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<p>Avani Kapur is a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR and the Founder and Director of Foundation for Responsive Governance.</p>
<p>She was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and led the Accountability Initiative at CPR the large[]
Sanjay Kathuria
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<p>Sanjay Kathuria was a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies in the National University of Singapore; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; and Visiting Faculty, Ashoka[]
Radhika Khosla
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<p>Dr Radhika Khosla is Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford. She works on examining the productive tensions []
Bhargav Krishna
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<p>Bhargav Krishna was a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. His research interests span areas of health policy, environmental policy, and environmental epidemiology, with a focus on the impact of air quality and climate change on health.</p[]
Mekhala Krishnamurthy
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<p>Mekhala Krishnamurthy was a Senior Fellow at CPR and Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University.</p>
<p>Over the last fifteen years, Krishnamurthys research, publications, policy and professional engagements have in[]
Nimmi Kurian
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<p>Nimmi Kurian is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research. Her research focusses in particular on the border regions between South Asia and Southeast Asia, Indias neighbourhood policy, federalism and foreign policy, transboundary water pol[]
Manju Menon
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<p>Manju Menon was a senior fellow at CPR, where she undertakes research, writing and community projects on environmental justice and the politics of resource rights. Manju has engaged with Indias environmental laws and policies for over two deca[]
Anindita Mukherjee
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<p>Anindita Mukherjee was an Urban Economist and works as Associate Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. As part of CPRs Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) initiative, she anchors the research on demystifying the urban land-plannin[]
Gautam Mukhopadhaya
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<p>Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya joined the Centre for Policy Research as a Senior Visiting Fellow in June 2019 after a career in the Indian Foreign Service during which he served in various capacities in Indian Embassies and Missions in Mexico, []
Partha Mukhopadhyay
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<p>Partha Mukhopadhyay joined CPR in 2006. He was previously part of the founding team at the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), focusing on private participation in infrastructure. In previous positions, he has been with the Expor[]
Rani Mullen
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<p>Rani D Mullen is associate professor of government at the College of William and Mary and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. At CPR, she has directed the Indian Development Cooperation Research project. Her research and teaching focus is on de[]
Mukta Naik
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<p>Mukta Naik, a Fellow at CPR, is an architect and urban planner. Her research interests include housing and urban poverty, urban informality, and internal migration, as well as urban transformations in small cities. At CPR, she focuses on unders[]
Ananth Padmanabhan
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<p>Ananth Padmanabhan was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. His research interests were in the fields of technology policy, intellectual property rights, and innovation scholarship. He has authored a leading treatise, Intellectu[]
Pushpa Pathak
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<p>Dr. Pushpa Pathak is a Senior Fellow at CPR. Dr Pathak has extensive experience of working in the field of urban development in India and in other developing and post-conflict countries. She has worked with premier institutions including: the N[]
Aditya Valiathan Pillai
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<p>Aditya Valiathan Pillai was a fellow with the Initiative for Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR).</p>
<p>He studies the social and economic consequences of climate impacts in India and South Asia, and []
Lant Pritchett
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<p>Lant Pritchett is a Senior visiting Fellow at CPR. He is a development economist from Idaho.</p>
<p>He graduated from BYU in 1983 and from MIT with a PhD in Economics in 1988. He worked with the World Bank from 1988 to 2007, living in Indonesia[]
Priyadarshini Singh
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<p>Priyadarshini was a Research Fellow at the State Capacity Initiative. Her current research interests include grassroots nationalism and state-led interventions on nation-making through areas such as school education in the Indian context. Her c[]
Lavanya Rajamani
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<p>Lavanya Rajamani is a Visiting Professor at CPR, Professor of International Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law at St Peter’s College, Oxford. She researches legal i[]
Rathin Roy
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<p>Rathin Roy was a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. He is Managing Director (Research and Policy) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). His policy interests and research has mainly focused on fiscal and macroeconomic issues pertinent to huma[]
Deepak Sanan
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<p>Deepak Sanan is a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR. Major areas of his interest include public policy in the areas of state capacity, land governance, public finance, water and sanitation.</p>
<p>He is a former civil servant, living in Himachal Pr[]
Shyam Saran
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<p>Shyam Saran is a Honorary Senior Faculty and Member of the Governing Board at Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Ministers Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After l[]
Shylashri Shankar
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<p>Shylashri Shankar was a senior fellow at CPR. Her intellectual and research interests include constitutionalism and religious freedom, activism and policy making by the judiciary, impact of anti-terror laws on civil liberties, conceptual hist[]
Karnamadakala Rahul Sharma
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<p>Karnamadakala Rahul Sharma was a Fellow at CPR with the State Capacity Initiative (SCI). He researches and coordinates SCIs work on bureaucratic norms and culture, administrative reform, and engagements with state governments on capacity build[]
Sushant Singh
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<p>Sushant Singh was a Senior Fellow at CPR. He was a lecturer in political science at Yale University (Fall 2019, 2021) and the Deputy Editor of The Indian Express, reporting on strategic affairs, national security and international affairs. He w[]
Arkaja Singh
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<p>Arkaja Singh is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). Her current work is focussed on regulation of markets. She has several other areas of interest that include municipal government, informal settlements, land, water and sanitation[]
Neelanjan Sircar
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<p>Neelanjan Sircar was a Senior Fellow at CPR. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. His research interests include Indian political economy and comparative political behavior with an eye to Bayesian statistics, causal in[]
Eswaran Somanathan
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<p>E Somanathan was a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR.</p>
<p>He is a Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, and Program Director of CECFEE (Centre for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, E[]
Aman Srivastava
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<p>Aman Srivastava was a Fellow with the Initiative on Climate, Energy, and the Environment at the Centre for Policy Research. Amans research interests are in the areas of climate and energy policy, specifically the interlinkages between emission[]
Ashwini K Swain
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<p>Ashwini K Swain was a fellow at Centre for Policy Research. His research interests include political economy of electricity, interface between energy service needs and climate mitigation goals, and water-energy-food nexus, especially in Indian []
Olivier Telle
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<p>Olivier Telle, Visiting Fellow at CPR, is an urban health geographer at Centre National de la Recherche Francaise (CNRS), UMR Geographie-cite (Paris-Sorbonne). He is currently associated with the Sci Fi 2 project in which he is developing resea[]
Rahul Verma
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<p>Rahul Verma is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. He is also an associate professor of political science at the Law School, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai. Previously, he taught as a visiting faculty at the Department []
Gilles Verniers
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<p>Gilles Verniers was a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR and Assistant Professor of Political Science and Co-Director, Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University. He was the co-convenor of the CPR-TCPD Dialogues on Indian Politics. He is w[]
Namita Wahi
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<p>Namita Wahi is a Senior Fellow at CPR, where she leads the Land Rights Initiative, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Transformation in Bergen. She holds an SJD (doctoral) degree from Harvard Law School, where she wrote her []
Michael Walton
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<p>Michael Walton, senior visiting fellow at CPR, has taught at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University since 2004. He was VKRV Rao Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore in 1998 and 1999, and visiting []
Marie-Helene Zerah
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<p>Marie-Helene Zerah is a senior researcher at the Institute of Research for Development, Paris, currently deputed to the Centre for Policy Research as Senior Visiting Fellow, where she is focusing on the role of small towns in India in the urban[]
Sanjib Baruah
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<p>Sanjib Baruah is an honorary research professor at CPR and professor of political studies at Bard College in the US, where he teaches comparative politics and international relations. Dr Baruah was born in Shillong, a hill station in northeast []
Sanjoy Hazarika
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<p>Sanjoy Hazarika was an honorary research professor at CPR and holds the Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew Chair at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, where he also directs the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research. He has been a member of variou[]
Subhash C Kashyap
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<p>Subhash Kashyap, honorary research professor at CPR, is an experienced administrator who worked with the Parliament of India from 1953 until 1990, when he retired from the position of Secretary-General. A prolific and well-known author, Kashyap[]
G Parthasarathy
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R Rangachari
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<p>R Rangachari, honorary research professor at CPR, is an engineer and expert on water policy and regional cooperation. He has served as a member of the Central Water Commission and additional secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources, among o[]
Charan Wadhva
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Abdul Najah
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<p>Abdul Najah was a Research Associate and worked with the Politics Team at CPR.</p>
<p>Najah is a recent Political Science graduate from Ashoka University. His research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political econ[]
Archana Sivasubramanian
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<p>Archana Sivasubramanian is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Research and is a part of the State Capacity Initiative. Her current research focus is on administrative reforms, public institutions and regulatory capacity in the Indian St[]
Abhishri Aggarwal
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Aditya Bhol
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<p>Aditya Bhol was a Senior Research Associate at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and is currently working on the project Scaling up Urban Sanitation Infrastructure and Services in India (SCI-FI) for Sanitation and Project Nirmal[]
Amandeep Singh
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<p>Amandeep Singh was a research assistant at CPR. He researched the relationships between sanitation technologies, and the social contexts in which these are embedded.</p>
<p>He holds an MSc in environmental policy and regulation, and a BSc in en[]
Nikhil George
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<p>Nikhil George was a research associate at CPR. Before joining CPR, he worked with the Centre for Energy, Environment, Urban Governance & Infrastructure Development at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. He was also part of[]
Zorawar Daulet Singh
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<p>Zorawar Daulet Singh is an author and foreign affairs analyst based in New Delhi. He is also an Adjunct Fellow with the Institute of Chinese Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the Forum for Strategic Initiative. </p>
<p>Dr Daulet Singhs research[]
Ajay Kumar
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<p>Ajay Kumar was a research associate at CPR. His research interests include the manufacturing sector, foreign trade, and macroeconomic policies in India.</p>
<p>Previously, he has worked for various research organisations, corporate houses, and []
Ved Marwah
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<p>Ved Marwah, honorary research professor at CPR, is a retired officer of the Indian Police Service. He has held government posts across the country, including Commissioner of Police, Delhi and Director General of the National Security Guard. Mar[]
Amaresh
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<p>Amaresh is a Research Associate – Engineer at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and is currently working in the project Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) initiative. He his Leading technical efforts in supporting UNICEF Dhe[]
Neeha Susan Jacob
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<p>Neeha Susan Jacob was a Senior Research Associate at Accountability Initiative.</p>
<p>Prior to this, she interned with the Kerala Public Expenditure Review Committee under the Government of Kerala, where she worked on non-tax revenue mobilisat[]
Neha Agarwal
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<p>Neha Agarwal was a Senior Research Associate with the Scaling City Institutions for India: Water and Sanitation programme at CPR, where she works on non-networked sanitation in urban and rural India. Her research interests lie in combining engi[]
Samridhi Agarwal
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<p>Samridhi was a Research Associate at the State Capacity Initiative who is working on a wide range of economic questions of growth and development, primarily on the structure and dynamics of the rural economy, public finances, and federalism in []
Aamna Ahmad
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<p>Aamna was a Learning and Development Associate at Accountability Initiative.</p>
<p>She worked on the online component of AIs PAISA course Hum aur Humaari Sarkaar and other learning modules at AI.</p>
<p>She holds an undergraduate degree in []
Ar. Vishnukanth Annam
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<p>Ar. Vishnukanth Annam was a Research Associate (Urban Planner with Architecture background) at the Centre for Policy Research to support Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) initiative in Odisha. His work focuses on developing slum free[]
Catherine Ayallore
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<p>Catherine Ayallore was a Senior Research Associate with the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at Centre for Policy Research. Catherine is currently working on regulatory and governance aspects of energy transition. Her other []
Ankita Barthwal
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<p>Ankita Barthwal was a former Research Associate with the State Capacity Initiative at CPR. Her current work focuses on society and politics, electoral analysis, opinion surveys and political party manifestoes.</p>
<p>Ankita is interested in que[]
Vrinda Bhardwaj
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<p>Vrinda Bhardwaj is a Research Associate at CPR’s Land Rights Initiative. Her research interests include policy matters pertaining to real estate, land acquisition/requisition and constitutional interpretation of land laws.</p>
<p>Before j[]
Ankit Bhardwaj
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<p>Ankit Bhardwaj was a former senior research associate at CPRs Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment. He is researching the political, social, spatial and energy implications of climate change in urban India. His wider research interest[]
Antarin Chakrabarty
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<p>Antarin Chakrabarty was a Associate Fellow and State Team Lead, JAGA (Odisha Liveable Habitat) Mission at the Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) initiative at the Centre for Policy Research. A city planner by profession, Antarin likes[]
Mandakini Chandra
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<p>Mandakini Chandra was a Research Associate at the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Her research explores climate mitigation policies and targets, the impacts of climate change in[]
Nancy D Cruz
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<p>Nancy D Cruz was a Research Associate at CPR working with the Governance and Public Policy Initiative (GPPI). GPPI focuses on fundamental issues of Governance and Public Policy by directly engaging with legislators. She currently coordinates th[]
Ram Kumar Dan
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<p>Ram Kumar Dan was a Research Associate with a specialization in Environmental Planning. Under JAGA Mission: Transforming Slums to Liveable Habitats, he has been appointed as a Research Associate -Urban Planner (GIS) to support the SCI-FI initia[]
Sarada Prasanna Das
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<p>Sarada Prasanna Das was a Associate Fellow at CPRs Initiative on Climate Energy and Environment (ICEE). His research interests include sociology and politics of electricity governance, environmental governance and water-energy-food nexus in th[]
Sharonee Dasgupta
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<p>Sharonee Dasgupta was a former Research Associate at CPR. Her current research interests broadly lie in mapping service deliveries in urban informal settlements with a focus on grievance redress mechanisms and state-citizen engagements. Prior t[]
Debarshee Dasgupta
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<p>Debarshee Dasgupta is a Senior Research Associate with CPRs Transboundary Rivers, Ecologies, and Development Studies programme and the MoJS (Ministry of Jal Shakti) Research Chair- Water Conflicts and Governance. In this role, he researches va[]
Tania Devaiah
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<p>Tania Devaiah was a Senior Research Associate with the Environmental Justice program whose work focuses on understanding the impact and scope of community engagement in environmental governance processes as a means to achieve environmental and []
Nrusingh Charan Dhal
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<p>Nrusingh Charan Dhal was a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Research working in the project, Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) initiative in Odisha. His role focuses on carrying out all community related activities, ensure[]
Bharatbhai Haribhai Dodiya
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<p>Bharat Dodiya is a Senior Field Researcher with the Environmental Justice Program in Kutch, Gujarat. His work focuses on studying compliance related issues that impact resources like ground water and grazing lands in the district.. He has worke[]
Sanitation Improvement in Indore: A Case Study in Effective Public Management
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After the Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM) was launched by the Government of India (GoI) in 2014, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) achieved remarkable success in promoting sanitation in Indore. This case study analyses the IMCs success, focussin[]
Innovative Approaches to Convergence in Karnataka's Grama Panchayats: Insights from 5 Case Studies
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This report is titled “Innovative Approaches to Convergence in Karnataka’s Grama Panchayats: Insights from 5 Case Studies“. It unpacks convergence practices in different programs such as Grama Panchayat Library and Information Ce[]
Strengthening Local Governance: A Study of Competencies of Grama Panchayat Functionaries in Karnataka
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This report delves into individual and team-based competencies of different functionaries including PDOs, PS, DEOs, Accounts Assistants, Bill Collector, Water Operator, Sahayak. The team observed that individual competencies differ based on the fu[]
Chapter | Integrating Fares, Information, and Informal Transit
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Amid looming climate concerns, engineering a shift to public transport is now imperative. India, where car ownership is yet to increase substantially beyond the large metros, can achieve a modal shift from private to public transport. Prioritising[]
South Asia in a Changing World: What Citizens in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh think 75 years post-Partition
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The partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 changed the sub-continent permanently, and eventually led to the birth of three sovereign countries. Each country has travelled its own unique trajectory, crafted its own political institutions, sought e[]
Compendium of Inspiring Practices on Urban-Rural Linkages: Implementation of Guiding Principles and Framework for Action to Advance Integrated Territorial Development: UN Habitat
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The 3rd edition of the Compendium published by UN Habitat is a compilation of 17 case studies to show case examples on urban-rural linkages from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Thematically, it covers mobility, heritage and culture, basic[]
ECOSYSTEMS OF ENGAGEMENT: DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND WOMENS WORK IN SRI LANKA AND INDIA
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Over the last two decades, the world has witnessed a proliferation of digital platforms and the emergence of an ecosystem of digital work. In a world where evolving technology is constantly improving the efficiency of communication and production,[]
Understanding Enablers and Barriers to Social Protection of Sanitation Workers
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There has been a strong focus on improving the sanitation situation in the last decade in India due to the Government of Indias flagship program called Swachh Bharat Mission. In the last decade, the country witnessed an increase in the number of []
Gender and Just Transition: Envisioning a Gender-transformative Pathway to Energy Transition in Indias Coal States
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Entrenched gender biases and injustices in the coal political economy cannot be wished away with the ongoing shift from coal to renewable energy. Rather, the energy transition must seek to unwind these entrenched patterns in the 20th century energ[]
Making It Work: Institutionalising Social Audits in Meghalaya in India
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In April 2017, Meghalaya enacted the Meghalaya Community Participation and Public Services Social Audit Act, 2017. The Meghalaya Society for Social Audit and Transparency (MSSAT) is responsible for implementing the Act. This legislation is the fir[]
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Urban Wash
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India has made considerable physical progress towards infrastructure creation under various national water and sanitation programme, yet the pandemic in 2020 further deepened WASH inequities for the urban poor. Evidence on the pandemic has demonst[]
How Is India Adapting to Heatwaves?: An Assessment of Heat Action Plans With Insights for Transformative Climate Action
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What are heat action plans (HAPs)? HAPs are Indias primary policy response to economically damaging and life threatening heatwaves. They prescribe a variety of preparatory activities, disaster responses, and post-heatwave response measures across[]
Where Do the Victims of Gender Based Violence Go: A Needs Analysis for Womens Safety Schemes in India
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Despite several efforts, a survey in 2018 ranked India as the most dangerous country for women. The Government of Indias Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has several schemes, policies, and legislations, on womens safety and empower[]
Financing Nutrition in India: Cost Implications of the Nutrition Policy Landscape 2022-23
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Over the last few years, India has been implementing several nutrition interventions as part of its national strategy to address malnutrition and associated risks. These include nutrition-specific interventions that address immediate determinants []
At A Glance: Rajasthan Financial Profile 2023-24
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Using government data about the state of Rajasthan, this brief highlights: Trends in finances, including Grants-in-Aid and Rajasthans own sources of revenue, and Trends in social sector expenditure of the state.
Ideas, Policies and Practices: Tracing the Evolution of Elementary Education Reform in India since 1975s
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This study examines four key reform policies and programs of the Indian education system: DPEP (1994), SSA (2000), RTE (2010) and NEP (2020). Each of these has a rich and nuanced body of research to which our study contributes a unique tracing of []
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin
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Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G) is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship Housing for All scheme. The scheme aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house with basic amenities to all rural houseless fami[]
Jal Jeevan Mission
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Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is Government of Indias (GoIs) rural drinking water programme to provide functional tap connections to every household for drinking, cooking, and other domestic needs on a sustainable basis by 2024. It subsumes the Natio[]
Samagra Shiksha
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Samagra Shiksha is Government of Indias (GoIs) school education programme covering preprimary to higher-secondary levels. Launched in April 2018, the scheme is the primary vehicle to implement the provisions under the Right of Children to Free a[]
National Health Mission
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National Health Mission (NHM) is Government of Indias (GoIs) largest public health programme, which aims to achieve universal access to quality healthcare. It consists of two sub-missions: National Rural Health Mission (NRHM); and National U[]
Ayushman Bharat
Briefs Reports
Ayushman Bharat, under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), was launched by Government of India (GoI) on 23 September 2018. This brief uses government data to analyse the following components of the scheme: Ayushman Bh[]
Smart Cities Mission
Briefs Reports
Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is Government of Indias (GoIs) urban rejuvenation mission launched on 25 June 2015. The Mission was initiated with the objective of providing core infrastructure, and decent quality of life to its citizens, along with []
Food Subsidy and the National Food Security Act
Briefs Reports
Food Subsidy is provided by the Government of India (GoI) for the supply and distribution of foodgrains and other essential commodities. With the passing of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013, nutritional security became a right. Under []
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0
Briefs Reports
In Financial Year (FY) 2021-22, the Government of India (GoI) restructured the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), POSHAN (Prime Ministers Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls (SAG) []
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship scheme to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that demands work. Using g[]
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana and Janani Suraksha Yojana
Briefs Reports
This brief reports on two maternity benefit schemes of the Government of India (GoI): a) Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) provides partial wage compensation to improve health-seeking behaviour of pregnant women and lactating mothers for[]
Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman
Briefs Reports
The National Programme of PM POSHAN, previously known as the National Scheme for Mid-Day Meals in schools (MDM), is a scheme to provide one hot cooked meal in government and government-aided schools, with an aim to improve the nutritional status o[]
Addressing Product Diversification in Public Housing Supply/Importance of Product Diversification in Public Housing Supply
Briefs Reports
Despite the governments efforts on augmenting the supply of houses, recent estimates suggest that the housing shortage in urban areas have widened. It is a result of the mismatch between the housing needs of the urban poor and the typology of hou[]
India's Political Parties
Briefs Reports
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental componentspolitical parties. In India, works on the countrys political parties so far have explored, among other things, the direct and indirect relationship betwe[]
The Missing Link: Understanding Rental Housing for Urban Poor
Briefs Reports
More than 30 million urban households in India, including urban poor, depend on the rental housing market for their housing needs, out of which around 70 per cent rely on informal rental arrangements. According to the NSSO 76th round (2017-18), 19[]
Climate Governance Functions: Towards Context-specific Climate Laws
Briefs Reports
In recent years, national climate governance instruments have been appearing rapidly around the world. However, these developments have rarely been discussed in terms of the requirements of climate responses in different political contexts. This b[]
An Approach to Affordable Housing Strategy in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Briefs Reports
With approximately 23 per cent of people in the state of Odisha residing in slums in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, there is an estimated shortage of 80,000 housing units, specifically among low-income families. Intending to bridge this gap, the[]
Compendium on Community Participation in Urban Water and Sanitation
Briefs Reports
Community Participation in Urban WASH has been gaining prominence over the last few decades. Various civil society organisations are engaged in strengthening community-based organisations in urban poor settlements to improve access, usage and cont[]
Regulating Urban Trees in India: Issues and Challenges
Briefs Reports
This report highlights the scope and functions of a dozen tree laws implemented in different states in India. The implementation of these laws has come to public focus in recent years due to the growing number of cases of large-scale tree felling []
Democratizing the Digital Space: Harnessing Technology to Amplify Participation in Governance Processes in the Global South
Briefs Reports
The rapid increase of users on social media platforms has shifted political debates and communication channels between citizens and states. While a decade ago governments may have tried to connect to citizens through their own platforms, now, many[]
Asset Monetisation: Matching Monetisation Models to Revenue Streams
Briefs Reports
The NITI Aayog released the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) in July 2021 (NITI Aayog 2021) as part of a pool of innovative and alternative financing sources expected to fund about 15 to 17 per cent of the National Infrastructure Pipeline, whi[]
Competitiveness and Resilience Through Social Security: Toward A More Inclusive System
Briefs Reports
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of social security for protecting workers against economic shocks, and for smoothing consumption during downturns. As forces such as technological advancement and climate change continue to upen[]
Realising India's Emissions Intensity Pledge: Data Needs and Short-Term Actions
Briefs Reports
As a vulnerable developing country with a low per-capita historical contribution to climate change, Indias climate commitments are situated within the context of its multiple development objectives, which highlights the need for adopting multiple[]
Towards District-wide Safely Managed Sanitation: Template for District-level Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) Planning
Briefs Reports
At the culmination of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G) Phase I in 2019, rural India had declared itself Open-Defecation Free (ODF). However, ODF is only the first step in Indias journey toward the Sustainable Development Goal 6 of ensuring []
Regulation of Non-State Actors in School Education in India
Briefs Reports
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Ukraines Refugee Crisis and the (B)ordering of Europe
Briefs Reports
Europe appears to be experiencing a we are all in this together moment in the face of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine with an unprecedented show of solidarity towards asylum seekers. For sure, it ticks several political boxes for Europe:[]
Private Sector Participation in Faecal Sludge & Septage Management
Briefs Reports
The Policy Brief Series is prepared under the research programme, Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). As part of its research programme on urban sanitation, SCI-FI has been undertaki[]
Sanitation Situational Assessment Report: Angul
Briefs Reports
Indias urbanization is on the rise, but the country is predominantly rural with 833 million (~70%) residing in villages. Odisha, with a rural population share of 83%, reported toilet access among rural households to be merely 14% in 2011. Since 2[]
Urban Distress: An Emerging Framework for Understanding Urban Vulnerabilities in India
Briefs Reports
The sustained economic growth and structural transformation of the Indian economy has resulted in increased growth of cities and towns. However, lack of investment in basic infrastructure and the low state capacities together deepens the vulnerabi[]
Improving social protection portability for Migration-affected children - Chhattisgarh
Briefs Reports
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 national lockdown in March 2020, India saw the mass movement of an estimated 11.4 million migrants back to their home states. Many more remained stranded at worksites and destination cities, and experienced hunger,[]
Delve: Abating River Pollution Through Faecal Sludge Management
Briefs Reports
Indias water bodies are rife with pollution from indiscriminate disposal of untreated sewage and septage, endangering the lives of millions of people depending directly or indirectly on these rivers. According to the estimates of the National Gre[]
Knowledge Products Prepared Under FCDO-SCI FI CPR- HUDD GoO Partnership
Briefs Reports
The FCDO-CPR partnership for Building State Capacities for land, planning and slum upgrading for resilient cities in Odisha has been working closely with the H&UDD, Government of Odisha since 2020. The partnership primarily focused on settin[]
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship scheme to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a Financial Year (FY) to every rural household that demands work. Us[]
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin
Briefs Reports
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G) is Government of Indias (GoI) flagship Housing for All scheme. The scheme was launched in November 2016 and aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house with basic ameni[]
National Health Mission
Briefs Reports
National Health Mission (NHM) is Government of Indias (GoIs) largest public health programme. It consists of two sub-missions: National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). Against the backdrop of the COVID-[]
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi
Briefs Reports
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is Government of Indias (GoIs) income support scheme, under which all landholding farmers receive up to 6,000 per year to supplement their financial needs. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandem[]
Jal Jeevan Mission
Briefs Reports
Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is Government of Indias (GoIs) rural drinking water programme to provide functional tap connections to every household for drinking, cooking, and other domestic needs on a sustainable basis by 2024. It subsumes the previ[]
Food Subsidy and the National Food Security Act
Briefs Reports
Food Subsidy is provided by the Government of India (GoI) for the supply and distribution of foodgrains and other essential commodities. With the passing of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013, nutritional security became a right. Under []
Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman
Briefs Reports
The National Programme of PM POSHAN, previously known as the National Scheme for Mid-Day Meals in schools (MDM), is a scheme to provide one hot cooked meal in government and government-aided schools. It aims at improving the nutritional status of []
Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0
Briefs Reports
In Financial Year (FY) 2021-22, Government of India (GoI) restructured the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), POSHAN (Prime Ministers Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan, the Scheme for Adolescent Girls, and the Natio[]
Samagra Shiksha
Briefs Reports
Samagra Shiksha is Government of Indias (GoIs) school education programme extending from the pre-primary to higher-secondary level. The scheme was launched in April 2018 to ensure equitable and inclusive quality education. It has been recently r[]
Land Rights and The Digital Revolution in India: Potential and Pitfalls
Briefs Reports
This policy brief explores the intersection of land rights and technology by analysing four government schemes, namely, Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), Survey of Villages Abadi & Mapping with Improvised Technology []
Margins: An Assessment of Slum Infrastructure Preparedeness to Withstand COVID-19 Impacts
Briefs Reports
The urban slums have reported the highest seroprevalence with 31.7 per cent, as per ICMRs third national serosurvey in January 2021. With highly infectious nature of SARS-Cov-2 virus, the densely populated urban informal settlements, which are pe[]
Homes: Beneficiary-Led Individual House Construction - An Analysis from Odisha, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu
Briefs Reports
Recognising the inadequacies in the state of housing in India, the national agenda of housing for all has emerged as one of the top priorities of the government. Despite the launch of numerous schemes to improve the housing conditions of economica[]
Assessing the portability of social protection and services for children affected by migration: A study across five Indian states
Briefs Reports
The 2020 migrant crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 national lockdown highlighted the urgent need to incorporate migrants in existing social protection mechanisms, which fail to recognize circular and seasonal mobility patterns. During the lockdow[]
Connect - The new entertainment paradigm for the urban poor
Briefs Reports
With more and more people becoming upwardly mobile, coupled with increasing connectivity, there has been a spurt in online content consumption. The availability of a wide variety of content has attracted a large number of people, across demographi[]
Renewing India's Air Quality Management Strategy in the Shadow of COVID-19
Briefs Reports
This framing paper aims to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge and the governance framework on air quality management in India. Air pollution is the second largest risk factor for public health in India, behind only child and mat[]
The CAQM Act 2021: An Overview
Briefs Reports
This Brief provides an overview of the new CAQM Act 2021, its strengths and limitations, and the path ahead for enabling airshed level governance in the rest of the country. With many significant questions yet to be deliberated on defining the bou[]
Fly Ash Management in India: A Critique of existing and proposed frameworks
Briefs Reports
On 22.04.2021, Indias Environment Ministry published a Draft Fly Ash Notification, which was open for public comments for 60 days and sought to replace the earlier notifications with respect to fly ash management since 1999. As a response to the []
Child Protection Services (CPS) Scheme
Briefs Reports
Child Protection Services is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship programme to provide preventive and statutory care, and rehabilitation services to children in need of care and protection and those in conflict with the law as defined under the []
Comments on Budget Proposal for Electricity Reforms
Briefs Reports
This note is prepared based on our reflections on the announcements made in Budget 2021-22 and participation in the webinar convened by MoP and MNRE, on February 18, 2021, to discuss a roadmap for implementation of these proposals. The note is dra[]
Comments on Draft National Electricity Policy, 2021
Briefs Reports
These comments are drafted based on internal discussion at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). It should not be considered an institutional position, as CPR does not take institutional positions on issues. Rather, they reflect the result of inte[]
Unlocking Climate Action in Indian Federalism
Briefs Reports
Indias highly centralized federal structure sits uneasily with the nature of the climate problem. While financial and bureaucratic capacities are concentrated in the centre, the locus of climate decisions lies largely in the states because they s[]
The Enclave Approach Has Outlived Its Usefulness for Bangladesh
Briefs Reports
The growth of its readymade garments industry has been a critical factor in Bangladeshs development success. However, Bangladesh has not been able to replicate this success in other labor-intensive sectors. A key reason for this is the current tr[]
Responding to COVID: a Mobility Based Surge Capacity Framework
Briefs Reports
It would appear, based on the experience over the past year, that at a given point in time, CoVID-19 affects a part of the country and not the whole nation. What does this imply for the sharing of resources between more affected areas and less aff[]
PAISA for Municipalities
Briefs Reports
This study aims to understand the nature and compute the size of the local public sector in the Smart City of Tumakuru, in Karnataka State. It makes use of our flagship methodology Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions Studies in Ac[]
Open Government in Education: Learning from Social Audits in India
Briefs Reports
This study looks at the first social audit of education undertaken in India, under the aegis of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). It was conducted as a pilot project across ten states of India. Social auditing is a po[]
Building a Climate-Ready Indian State: Institutions and Governance for Transformative Low-Carbon Development
Briefs Reports
This brief lays out a new approach to Indian climate governance. We suggest Indias institutional structure should be aimed at generating and adopting low-carbon development pathways. Doing so implies going beyond energy and emissions policies to []
Compensatory climate governance in Indian federalism
Briefs Reports
It is on the precarious and ever-shifting terrain of Indian federalism that a modern edifice of climate governance must be built. Where is the firm ground? Are there enduring characteristics of centre-state relations that let us arrive at a relati[]
PAISA for Panchayats Study for the State of Kerala
Briefs Reports
Abiding by nature, not national borders: Institution building in the Himalayas
Briefs Reports
Mountains are hard to govern. National boundaries rarely reflect mountain geography and carve mountains into ecologically and socially incomplete sections. Mountain ecosystems, glaciers, rivers and communities are deeply intertwined, bearing all t[]
Samagra Shiksha, GOI, 2021-22
Briefs Reports
Samagra Shiksha an integrated scheme for school education, is Government of Indias (GoIs) school education programme extending from pre-school to senior secondary stages. The scheme was launched in April 2018 to ensure equitable and inclusive []
Budget Brief: Poshan Abhiyaan, GOI, 2021-22
Briefs Reports
The effectiveness of climate governance depends on its underlying institutional arrangements. This paper examines the emergence of climate-related institutions in India, organised around three periods: pre- 2007; 20072009 and 2010mid-2014. Sever[]
Budget Briefs: National Health Mission GOI,2021-21
Briefs Reports
Budget Briefs: Mid-Day Meal Scheme - 2021-22
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship scheme to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a Financial Year (FY) to every rural household that demands work. To[]
Jal Jeevan Mission
Briefs Reports
Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is Government of Indias (GoIs) rural drinking water programme to provide functional tap connections to every household for drinking, cooking, and other domestic needs on a sustainable basis by 2024. It subsumes the previ[]
Integrated Child Development Services
Briefs Reports
Integrated Child Development Services is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship programme aimed at providing basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development. It has now been combined with POSHAN Abhiyaan to form Sak[]
Food Subsidy and the National Food Security Act
Briefs Reports
Food Subsidy is provided by the Government of India (GoI) for the supply and distribution of foodgrains and other essential commodities. The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013, ensured nutritional security became a right by providing adequate []
Ayushman Bharat
Briefs Reports
Ayushman Bharat, under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), was launched by Government of India (GoI) on 23 September 2018. The programme consists of two initiatives: (1) The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY); and[]
The Pandemic and Public Administration: A survey of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers
Briefs Reports
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary hardship since Indias first case was reported in Thrissur, Kerala in January 2020. Individuals and communities have since then made drastic changes to their behaviours, daily routines and lives, quit[]
Research in the Covid-19 Context: Adaptive Methods and Ethical Considerations
Briefs Reports
Resilience and adaptation have become buzzwords as governments, corporations and society find ways to survive the Covid-19 pandemic and, where possible, seek to develop processes and outcomes that improve on the pre-crisis status quo. Members of t[]
Rural Sanitation Practices: A Rapid Assessment Study for Odisha
Briefs Reports
The state of Odisha has made unprecedented strides in increasing access to individual toilets from 14% in 2011 to a purported 100% in 2019 under the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin. In light of the clarion call of a Swachha Odisha, Sustha Od[]
Solid and Liquid Waste Management in Dhenkanal District: Situation Assessment Report
Briefs Reports
In response to the national and state-level sanitation imperatives, Dhenkanal district, Odisha, is undertaking the ‘Dhenkanal Pilot Project for Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM)’ in partnership with the Panchayati Raj and Drinki[]
Rural Sanitation Factsheet: Dhenkanal, Odisha
Briefs Reports
In response to the national and state-level sanitation imperatives, Dhenkanal district, Odisha, is undertaking the ‘Dhenkanal Pilot Project for Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM)’ in partnership with the Panchayati Raj and Drinki[]
Unlocking Barriers to Inclusive WASH: Learnings from Slums in Bhubaneswar
Briefs Reports
Urban sanitation in the Indian policy space received focused attention only after the mid2000s with the introduction of a slew of programmes such as Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), followed by National Urban Sanitation Po[]
State Education Finances: A Deep-Dive into School Education Finances in Eight States
Briefs Reports
This study is an attempt to provide an in-depth understanding of school education financing in India through an analysis of expenditures incurred across eight states from FY 2014-15 to FY 2017-18.
Social Security for Informal Workers in India
Briefs Reports
The brief explores Indias labour market policies on provisioning of social security to informal workers in the unorganised sector.
Improving Housing for Urban Poor: Learnings from BLC Implementation in Odisha
Briefs Reports
In response to the national housing scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the Government of Odisha designed the Odisha Urban Housing Mission Awaas in 2015 to realise the goal of housing for all in the state. With an additional outlay as[]
Improving Housing for Urban Poor: Learnings from BLC Implementation in Kerala
Briefs Reports
The Government of Kerala dovetailed its state housing programme with the national scheme of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in 2015 to realise the vision for Housing for All. The State Poverty Eradication Mission of the Government of Kerala, or Kudum[]
Towards a Sustha and Swachha Rural Dhenkanal: Institutionalizing Faecal Sludge Management for Achieving ODF Plus
Briefs Reports
Following significant national gains in access to a toilet facility under the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (SBM-G), the Ministry of Jal Shakti launched the programme’s second phase in 2020. SBM-G Phase II places an emphasis on and fu[]
IEC/BCC STRATEGY FOR FSM IN RURAL DHENKANAL
Briefs Reports
With the State of Odisha being declared as ODF in 2019, the focus now lies in leveraging the momentum for creating and sustaining clean and sanitized villages through the delivery of adequate FSM services to all the residents of rural areas. Envis[]
India as the Engine of Recovery for South Asia: a Multi-Sectoral Plan for India's Covid-19 Diplomacy in the Region
Briefs Reports
The Covid-19 pandemic presents an unparalleled challenge to the peace and prosperity of South Asia, home to one-fourth of the world population. Aside from the immediate health crisis, the pandemic also threatens to undo decades of economic develop[]
Community Engagement Processes For Planning and Implementing Sanitation/FSSM Interventions
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Project Nirmal: Implementing Decentralized Solutions for Sanitation In Small Towns
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Strengthening Institutional Arrangements and Capacities For Implementing FSM Initiatives
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Planning For Faecal Sludge Management in Small Towns: Experiences From Angul And Dhenkanal
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Aspects Of Faecal Sludge Management In Small Towns
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Faecal Sludge Treatment Facilities:Land and Environmental Clearances Research
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Creating An Enabling Policy Environment For Implementing FSM In Small Towns
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Creating Demand, Ensuring Usage and Adequate Maintenance Of Urban Sanitation Infrastructure Through Communication Inputs
Briefs Reports
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation a[]
Powering Through the Pandemic
Briefs Reports
The disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are consequential for Indias long-term electricity goals. While exacerbating the existing weaknesses in the sector, the pandemic could also affect the trend toward an electricity transition. This rep[]
Financing Nutrition in India: Cost Implications of the Nutrition Policy Landscape 2019-20
Briefs Reports
India should have spent at least 38,571 crore in 2019-20, across Union government ministries and State government departments to fully finance a set of core direct nutrition interventions (DNIs), at scale. In this study, you will find information[]
Pursuing a Clean Air Agenda in India During the COVID Crisis
Briefs Reports
Air quality was gradually gaining political salience in India in the last few years, but COVID-19 and the deepening economic recession may now change the speed, and possibly the direction, of progress. The aim of this report is to begin the proces[]
Reuse and Recycling of Faecal Sludge-derived Biosolids in Agriculture
Briefs Reports
The rapid proliferation of toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission has necessitated the safe collection, conveyance, and treatment of faecal sludge and septage. Accordingly, the National Policy on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM), 2017,[]
Pump Up: Towards Achieving Financial and Environmental Sustainability Among Privately Operated Desludging Businesses in India
Briefs Reports
While Indias largest cities have centralised sewage systems, complete with underground pipes, pumping stations, and treatment plants (Chaturvedi, 2017), the presence of sewer systems in the country has been limited, despite the focus of national []
Invisible Sanitation Workers @ Covid 19 Lockdown: Voices From 10 Cities
Briefs Reports
Despite precarious working conditions, sanitation workers provide an essential service at the cost of their safety, health, and dignity. With the outbreak of COVID-19, their position is further jeopardised. The situation is likely to become more g[]
Testing for the Coronavirus at the State Level
Briefs Reports
This brief discusses desirable strategies and important considerations to implement coronavirus (COVID-19) testing and data analysis. The suggestions are consistent with a modern statistical understanding of how to detect infection and understand []
A Crisis of Hunger: a ground report on the repercussions of COVID-19 related lockdown on Delhi's vulnerable populations
Briefs Reports
The lock-down in response to COVID-19 has created an unprecedented food crisis in Delhi. While monthly-wage earning households may have a few days food supply on hand, daily wage labourers now without work – have no income and, therefore, []
Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban(SBM-U)-2020-21
Briefs Reports
The Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban (SBM-U) is the Government of Indias (GoI) flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas. Using government data, this brief reports on: Allocations, releases, and expenditures, State-wis[]
Swachh Bharat Mission - Gramin
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that deman[]
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that deman[]
Budget Brief 2020-21: Child Protection Services
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This brief lays out a new approach to Indian climate governance. We suggest Indias institutional structure should be aimed at generating and adopting low-carbon development pathways. Doing so implies going beyond energy and emissions policies to []
Perceptions: Understanding On-Site Sanitation System Choices in Large Dense Villages in India
Briefs Reports
This report aims to explore the nuances of the prevalence of on-site sanitation systems in large and dense villages of India. Villages which have a population of 1000 persons or more and a density of greater than or equal to 400 persons per square[]
Unearthed - Facts of On-Site Sanitation in Urban India
Briefs Reports
As per the National Sample Survey 2018, nearly 60% of urban India relies on On-Site Sanitation (OSS) systems, like septic tanks and leaching pits, for the management of faecal waste. Augmentation of toilet access over the last five years under the[]
Clearing our Air of Pollution: A Road Map for the Next Five Years
Briefs Reports
Air pollution levels are unsafe across the country, all-year round. While pollution levels spike to dangerously high levels during the winter in north India, those in several parts of the country are poor or worse for large parts of the year. High[]
Mapping Power: A Collection of Insights on the Political Economy of Electricity in India's States
Briefs Reports
This is a compilation of blogs by the authors of ‘Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in Indias States’ (Oxford University Press), edited by Navroz K. Dubash (Centre for Policy Research), Sunila S. Kale (University of []
Ujjwala 2.0: From Access to Sustained Usage
Briefs Reports
How to continue to fulfill the promise of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, now in its second phase, is an important policy discussion in the country. Three essential tasks remain: extend connections to the entire country, now requiring work amon[]
Swachh Bharat Mission - Gramin (SBM-G) -2019-20
Briefs Reports
Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM Gramin along the following parameters: Allocations and expenditures Physical progress of toilets built Expenditures incurred under Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activitie[]
Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U)- 2019-20
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
Briefs Reports
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that deman[]
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
Briefs Reports
The Integrated Child Development Services is the Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship programme aimed at providing basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development. This brief uses government data to analyse ICDS p[]
Differentiation
Briefs Reports
About the Report (A Global Pact for the Environment – Legal Foundations) The project leading to this compilation of studies has two purposes. The first is to leave a record of the intellectual discussions underpinning the project of a Global[]
Beyond Poles and Wires: How to Keep the Electrons Flowing?
Briefs Reports
Indias move to electrify every village and household in the country has been lauded as a success. Building on decades of targeted programmes and public investments by multiple governments, the country completed 100% village electrification in Apr[]
Building Regulations For Faecal Sludge Management: Review of Building Regulations From Indian States
Briefs Reports
Getting approvals under the various building regulations applicable to any particular jurisdiction is often the first step in construction and development. The Report Building Regulations for Faecal Sludge Management: Review of Building Regulatio[]
Faecal Sludge and Septage Management in Odisha: A Review of the Law and Policy Framework
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In this report, the researchers have examined the Faecal Sludge and Septage Management Framework in the State of Odisha. The study has been conducted in the towns of Berhampur, Dhenkenal and Puri. The differences that these towns show in terms of []
Faecal Sludge and Septage Management in Uttarakhand: A Review of the Law and Policy Framework
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In this report, the researchers have examined the Faecal Sludge and Septage Management Framework in the State of Uttarakhand. The report aims at mapping the potential and limitations of the extant legal and policy framework governing FSSM in Uttar[]
Bridging the Gap Opportunities for Private Sector Participation in Faecal Sludge and Septage Management
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Between FY 2006-07 and FY 2010- 11, allocations for the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) more than doubled from 2,000 crore to 5,171 crore. In FY 2015-16, GOI discontinued key schemes run by the Ministry. Consequently, allocations have fallen to []
What Matters for Urban Women's Work: A Deep Dive Into Falling Female Labour Force Participation
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India is one of the lowest globally in terms of female labour force participation (FLFP), ranking only better than Pakistan in South Asia. While the decline in FLFP in rural areas is starkly visible, the urban FLFP has been consistently low since []
The Cubbyhole of Area Studies: Why Indian IR is at an Analytical Cul-de-Sac
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Indian IR appears today to be caught in a Dickensian moment of sorts, signalling both momentum and inertia at the same time. At a time when Indian diplomacy appears to be turning a discursive corner, the intellectual discourse is all but stuck in []
Budget Brief 2019-20: Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U)
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Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban (SBM-U) is the Government of India’s (GoI’s) nation-wide flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas. Using government data, this brief reports on: Allocations, releases, and e[]
Budget Brief 2019-20: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year (FY) to every rural household that []
Budget Brief 2019-20: National Health Mission (NHM)
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National Health Mission (NHM) is Government of India’s (GoIs) largest public health programme. It consists of two sub-missions: National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) Using government data, this brief[]
Budget Brief 2019-20: National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP)
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National Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship rural drinking water supply scheme. The scheme aims to provide safe and adequate water for drinking, cooking, and other domestic needs on a sustainable basis. Usi[]
Budget Brief 2019-20: Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G)
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Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin or SBM-G is the Government of Indias (GoI) flagship rural sanitation programme. Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM-G along the following parameters: Allocations and expenditures from GoI share[]
Note on Faecal Sludge Management in Rural India: Graded Solution, legal and Regulatory implications and Possible Administrative Structure
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Rural areas in India are experiencing significant gains in toilet coverage under the public funded programmes. Given the rate of in-situ urbanization in a growing urban paradigm,the rural areas, in many parts, seems to emulate urban infrastructu[]
Unpacking the Processes of Open Defecation Free Status in Udaipur: A case study of Udaipur, Rajasthan
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This report is the culmination of a study conducted by the Accountability Initiative (AI) on Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin in 2017 on the request of the Udaipur district administration. The study understands the outcomes, and the processes, which l[]
Integrating Urban Development and Climate Objectives: Insights from Coimbatore
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Indian cities routinely make decisions on land use, housing, water, transport, economic growth and waste management that have implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Aligning these sectoral actions with climate goals involves un[]
Fixated on Megawatts: Urgent Need to Improve Power Procurement and Resource Planning by Distribution Companies in India
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In India, there is great concern over the retail tariffs being charged for electricity, but ironically little attention is paid to the components of overall costs. Power generation makes up 70-80% of the cost of supplying electricity, and power pr[]
Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community strategies and remedies for natural resource conflicts in Indonesia
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Land transformation has been at the centre of economic growth of post-colonial, Asian nation-states. While their political reforms and economic policies have focused on land governance, the outcomes have resulted in promoting privatisation and spe[]
Midcourse Manoeuvres: Community strategies and remedies for natural resource conflicts in India
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Land transformation has been at the centre of economic growth of post-colonial, Asian nation-states. While their political reforms and economic policies have focused on land governance, the outcomes have resulted in promoting privatisation and spe[]
General Issues in Elaborating the Paris Agreement
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The Paris Agreement establishes a new multilateral architecture guiding countries climate change efforts under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Parties are currently negotiating more detailed rules and procedures for impl[]
Migration Junctions in India and Indonesia Reimagining Places, Reorienting Policy
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More than two decades after the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 and the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996 came into force, the efficacy of this fra[]
Plugging In Energy Demand in Indian Residences
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India is poised at the edge of an energy transformation. This shift is shaped in large part by the countrys ongoing economic, social, and technological transitions. Indian cities will host an influx of 200 million more people by 2030. Most of the[]
Working In Tandem: The Informal Septic Tank Emptying Market In Aya Nagar, Delhi
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The aim of this research report is to explore the types of sanitation services that exist in non-networked settlements. Based on a case study of Aya Nagar in South Delhi, the research shows how households are primarily dependent on septic tanks, a[]
The Legal Regime and Political Economy of Land Rights Of Scheduled Tribes in the Scheduled Areas of India
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Context: India holds the unique distinction of being both the world’s largest constitutional democracy and also one of its fastest growing economies. Critical to the process of India’s economic development is state acquisition of land []
Leaping over Potholes? The Road Ahead for Tourism in India's Borderlands
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India has been underscoring the transformative potential of cross-border partnerships in tourism for the Northeast. But whatever the glossy brochures may proclaim, initiatives taken in the name of the Northeast seldom ask the question to what exte[]
Beyond 2019: Why Sanitation Policy Needs to Look Past Toilets
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In the three years since the Swacch Bharat Mission was launched over 30 lakh urban toilets have been built and a further 30 lakh are planned to be built by the programs deadline in 2019. The efforts in toilet construction have not been matched by[]
Budget Brief 2018-19:Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin (SBM-G)
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Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin or SBM-G is the Government of Indias (GoI) flagship rural sanitation programme. Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM-G along the following parameters: Allocations and expenditures Physical prog[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: National Health Mission (NHM)
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The National Health Mission (NHM) is Government of India’s (GoI) largest public health programme. It consists of two submissions: National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) Using government data, this brie[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G)
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Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY – G) is Government of Indias (GoI) flagship Housing for All scheme. The scheme was launched in November 2016 and aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house wi[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
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Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is Government of Indias (GoI) flagship secondary education programme. The scheme was launched in March 2009 to augment access to, and improve the quality of secondary education. In FY 2013-14, four exist[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the Government of Indias (GoI) flagship elementary education programme. Launched in 2001, it aims to provide universal education to children between the ages of 6 to 14 years. SSA is the primary vehicle for implemen[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS)
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The Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS) is a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE). The scheme was introduced in January 2007, to rehabilitate the identified manual scaveng[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U)
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The Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban (SBM-U) is the Government of Indias (GoI) nationwide flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas. Using government data, this brief reports on: Allocations and releases Physica[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
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The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is Government of India’s (GoI) flagship programme aimed at providing basic education, health and nutrition services for early childhood development. This brief uses government reported data to[]
Budget Brief 2018-19: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year (FY) to every rural household that []
Capacity Building Strategy for Urban Local Bodies And State Government On Sanitation: Odisha
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Sanitation in the urban areas of Odisha, as in most other parts of the country, has been a major challenge. Though one of the least urbanized states in the country,Odisha has registered a significantly high growth rate in the 2001-2011 decade and []
Capacity Building Need Assessment of Cities (Angul and Dhenkanal) and State Government on Sanitation: A Case Study of Odisha
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Although sanitation remains a focus in present government programmes and schemes (SBM and AMRUT), capacity building of ULBs and State Government on issues of sanitation has remained an area of neglect in most of the State and ULBs. The study on Ca[]
Plugging In: A Collection of Insights on Electricity Use in Indian Homes
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Electricity use in Indian homes from lights, ceiling fans, televisions, refrigerators, among other appliances has increased 50 times between today and 1971, even though Indias per capita residential electricity consumption is less than a thir[]
Towards a New Research and Policy Paradigm: An Analysis of the Sanitation Situation in Large Dense Villages
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The discourses on rural and urban spaces in India in the context of physical infrastructure have divulged their inherent characteristic differences. However, given the trends of urbanisation in India there has been a paradigm shift in rural urba[]
A Review of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1984
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Human trafficking, a form of organized crime that extends across borders, covers various forms of human rights violations, ranging from commercial sexual exploitation to forced labour and organ donation. Over the years it has taken on more complex[]
India-Bangladesh Development Partnership: Extension of a US $4.5 Billion by India Towards its Eastern Neighbour
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Bangladesh as one of Indias immediate neighbour holds strategic and economic importance for India. A strong India-Bangladesh relationship is important to promote regional stability, enhance Indias connectivity with East Asia and bring economic b[]
Modern Biotechnology and India's Governance Imperatives
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Advances in the biotech sector are geared to transform existing ethical assumptions, while unravelling a host of products and services that can benefit humankind. The tradeoffs involved across various sub-verticals, including biodiversity explorat[]
Mainstreaming climate action in Indian cities: Case study of Rajkot
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Indian cities are crucial to the response to climate change. As the bulk of their infrastructure is yet to be built, their current decisions can lock-in, or lock-out, inclusive and climate resilient forms. We examine the case study of Rajkot to hi[]
Improving Urban Sanitation in India: Lessons from Malaysia
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Malaysia is one of the countries in the world to have emerged as leaders in septage management for sanitation improvement. However, this journey witnessed various changes and amendments in the Constitution, policies, Acts and operational mechanism[]
Migrants in construction work: Evaluating their welfare framework
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The National Programme of Mid-Day Meals (MDM) in School scheme is Government of Indias (GoIs) flagship school-based feeding programme aimed at improving the nutritional status of students and promoting the universalisation of elementary educatio[]
Structuring the UNFCCC 2018 Facilitative Dialogue
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A key driver of ambition envisioned in the Paris package is a facilitative dialogue among parties in 2018. This dialogue is mandated to take stock of the collective efforts of parties toward the long-term goal set out in Article 4.1, and is inte[]
The Peripheral Protagonist: The Curious Case of the Missing Trans-Himalayan Trader
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It is intriguing that despite a liberal economic narrative of borders as bridges, the transHimalayan trader has remained a rather forlorn and forgotten metaphor. This absence has however neither been voluntary nor anticipated but instead can be tr[]
Civilian Drones and India's Regulatory Response
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Land Acquisition in India: A Review of Supreme Court Cases (1950-2016)
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Context: India faces serious challenges in creating development processes that generate economic growth while being socially inclusive, ecologically sustainable, politically feasible, and in accordance with the Rule of Law. Equitable and efficient[]
The Rupee's Reach: The Lending Curve of India's Development Diplomacy
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Indias transition from being a recipient of aid to a donor makes for a feel-good story. The policy brief questions this rose-tinted rhetoric and argues that there is an urgent need to map and systematise the diversity of Indias engagement as an []
Transformation through Cyber-innovation: The Great Indian Technological Leap
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This report chapter critically examines the Digital India mission, and its promises and perils. It focuses on the controversial issue of data governance and privacy norms, and the need for robust innovation policies for the mission to fulfil proje[]
Budget Brief 2017-18: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
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The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the Government of Indias (GOI) flagship elementary education programme. Launched in 2001, it aims to provide universal primary education to children between the ages of 6 to 14 years. SSA is now the primary vehi[]
Budget Brief 2017-18: Swachh Bharat Mission - Gramin (SBM-G)
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The Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin or SBM-G is the Government of Indias (GOI) flagship rural sanitation programme. Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM-G along the following parameters: Allocations and expenditures Physical []
Budget Brief 2017-18: Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban)
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The Swachh Bharat MissionUrban (SBM-U) is Government of Indias (GOI) nationwide flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas. Using government data, this brief reports on: Allocations and releases Physical progress of[]
Budget Brief 2017-18: Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile (JAM)
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Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is a Government of India (GOI) initiative to transfer cash benefits such as wage payments, subsidies and incentives for a number of government programmes directly into bank accounts of beneficiaries through electronic[]
Budget Brief 2017-18: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the flagship rural employment scheme of the Government of India (GOI). It aims to provide 100 days of employment per rural household. Using government reported data, this brief[]
Budget Brief 2017-18: National Health Mission (NHM)
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The National Health Mission is the Government of Indias largest public health programme. It consists of two sub-missions: (1) National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) (2) National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). Using government data, this brief reports[]
Budget Brief 2017-18: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
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The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched by the Government of India (GOI) on 25 December, 2000 to provide all-weather road connectivity in rural areas. PMGSY is administered by the Ministry of Rural Development (MORD). Using gover[]
Distributed Land Ledgers-- Law, Policy, and Applications
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This report chapter explores nuances in the working of distributed ledgers, their capabilities as a decentralized architectural solution to store and access land records, and the hurdles policy and practical in the journey towards such realiza[]
India's Reinvigorated Relationship with Africa
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In the intergovernmental climate negotiations India has consistently argued against greenhouse gas mitigation commitments for developing countries. This paper argues that while Indias position, given the burden sharing architecture of the United []
India: Meeting Energy Needs for Development While Addressing Climate Change
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India is undergoing structural urban and economic transitions and has set ambitious policy targets to meet its rising energy needs for development. Expanding coal and renewables are two important pillars of this undertaking and, since 2008, climat[]
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Making Sense of China's One Belt One Road Initiative
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Chinas One Belt One Road Initiative has virtually been a lightning rod for divisive debate and a polarised narrative since it was announced in 2013. For India, it has been the proverbial elephant in the room, as it awkwardly swings between willfu[]
A Pilot Study of Estimating Out-of-School Children in India
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The numbers of out-of-school children (OOSC) put out by various official sources in India, show wide variations. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) survey by Social and Rural Research Institute Indian Market Research Bureau (SRIIM[]
How Effective are Environmental Regulations to Address Impacts of Industrial and Infrastructure Projects in India
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People around the world live in areas that have been altered for industrial, infrastructure or mining projects. Their lives and occupations are being negatively impacted by problems of access, encroachment or pollution. Though governments in many []
Co-Opted Federalism? Border States and Resource Revenue Sharing Bargains
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So that local people can use and understand the laws regulating development and the environment of Indias coast, Namati has created a Coastal Regulation Zones booklet that covers all the information available in the complex official document, but[]
Monitoring Open Discharge-Free India: A comprehensive sanitation matrix
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This report is the product of an effort to develop an assessment framework or matrix to measure sanitation outcomes in India. We begin by tracing international policy instruments on Open Defecation (Free) [OD (F)], the genealogy of the term, and t[]
Tamil Nadu State Report Card 2016
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Using government reported data, this brief looks closely at the effects of the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations on state finances in Tamil Nadu, with a particular focus on effects on social sector investments. The brief asks two[]
Is the MoEFCC Encouraging Environmental Violations?
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On 10 May 2016, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued a draft Notification proposing a mechanism to deal with projects that have commenced activities before obtaining an environmental clearance [Draft Notification]. Such ac[]
Rajasthan State Report Card 2016
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Using government reported data, this brief looks closely at the effects of the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations on state finances in Rajasthan, with a particular focus on effects on social sector investments. The brief asks two []
Maharashtra State Report Card 2016
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Using government reported data, this brief looks closely at the effects of the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations on state finances in Maharashtra, with a particular focus on effects on social sector investments. The brief asks tw[]
Karnataka State Report Card 2016
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Using government reported data, this brief looks closely at the effects of the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations on state finances in Karnataka, with a particular focus on effects on social sector investments. The brief asks two []
Chhatisgarh State Report Card 2016
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Using government reported data, this brief looks closely at the effects of the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations on state finances in Chhattisgarh, with a particular focus on effects on social sector investments. The brief asks t[]
Bihar State Report Card 2016
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Using government reported data, this brief looks closely at the effects of the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations on state finances in Bihar, with a particular focus on effects on social sector investments. The brief asks two key []
India's Development Cooperation: Analysis of the Union Budget
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Since the turn of the century, India has continued to enlarge its development cooperation allocations and become a globally significant development cooperation partner. This brief analyzes Indias 2019-20 Union Budget for its development assistanc[]
Indian Development Cooperation with Afghanistan and the 'Afghan-India Friendship Dam'
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India has strengthened its ties with Afghanistan since 2001. A crucial facet of the Indo-Afghan bilateral relationship has been Indias extensive initiatives directed towards the restructuring and rehabilitation of war-torn Afghanistan. Indian dev[]
Schizophrenic Subregionalism? Method and Madness in India's Border Fencing Project
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A problematic set of binaries stands at the heart of Indias narrative on borders, one that has rendered its political signaling contradictory as well as virtually unintelligible. Indias border fencing project is a stark metaphor of this conflict[]
Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) GOI, 2015-16
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) GOI, 2016-17
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This brief uses government reported data to analyse SSA performance along the following parameters: Overall trends in allocation and expenditures Expenditure performance across key SSA activities New learning initiatives under SSA Outputs and outc[]
Budget Briefs: National Health Mission (NHM) GOI, 2015-16
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Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) GOI, 2015-16
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This brief uses government reported data to analyse ICDS performance along the following parameters: Overall trends in allocation and expenditures Expenditure performance across key ICDS activities In addition, this brief reports findings from a f[]
State of Social Sector Expenditure in 2015-16
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The 14th Finance Commissions (FFC) recommendations, accepted by the Union Government in February 2015, set the stage for a radical overhaul of Indias fiscal architecture. The recommendations were designed to enhance the fiscal autonomy of states[]
Faecal Waste Management in Smaller Cities across South Asia: Getting Right the Policy and Practice
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The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) jointly with the Freshwater Action Network, South Asia (FANSA) have collaborated to bring out this research report. It highlights the need for policy focus on smaller city sanitation and discusses why faecal wa[]
Urban Sanitation in India- Why Brazil Matters
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Since the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission in October 2014, sanitation issues in India are receiving immense attention from policymakers, media and civil society alike. The sector however received enormous funds even before this scheme with lit[]
Integrating Intermediate Public Transport Within Transport Regulation in a Megacity: A Kolkata Case Study
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Movement is integral to urban life and cities function off the energy of potential opportunity, growth and freedom. One of the cornerstones of an inclusive urban space is the availability of regular and affordable mobility opportunities for all ci[]
Flows and Flaws: Diverting the Debate on Water with China
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Chinas growing water thirst lends an urgency to understand Chinas resource choices, the possible conditions under which it is likely to exercise these choices and the ripple effects these are likely to have across the borders. While overinterpre[]
Power to the States: Making Fiscal Transfers Work for Better Health
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India embodies many perplexing contradictions in development. A middle-income country with a powerful diplomatic and economic presence at the global level, and citizens in business, science, and the arts with world-class contributions, India is al[]
A Road Less Travelled: Forks and Bends in India's Subregional Transport Diplomacy
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The subregional project as a narrative aimed at transforming economic geographies has been raised to the highest levels of rhetorical importance in Indias policy discourse. At the core of this vision stands a series of transborder infrastructure []
Swachh Bharat: Industry Enagagement - Scope and Example
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This report explores the opportunities for investment in sanitation by the private sector, and it profiles 16 initiatives currently being undertaken for the provision of sanitation services and infrastructure, either through corporate social respo[]
Rules vs Responsiveness: Towards building an outcome-focussed approach to governing elementary education finances in India
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Elementary education policy in India is undergoing an important transition. For decades, the primary goal of the Indian Governments elementary education policy was to create a universal education system through the provision of school inputs. Thi[]
Indian IR's Subregional Moment: Between A Rock and A Hard Place?
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The subregional turn in Indian diplomacy marks an interesting discursive shift in Indian foreign policy and its engagement of the Asian neighbourhood. Delhis new reading of borders is an admittedly feel-good narrative of rethinking borders as b[]
Emerging Leaders: Report Volume Six
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According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB, India) at least 284,694 Indian farmers have taken their lives since 1995. This occurred at an annual average rate of 14,462 in the five years from 1995 to 2000, and 17,699 in the 12 years betwe[]
School Education in the New Education Policy
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A distinction between consultations to obtain a feedback of experiences and concerns around education and policy formulation needs to be made. The feedback from various civil society organisations of conducting consultations at the village and com[]
No-Detention Policy [NDP] and Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation [CCE]
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The Right to Education Act provides for no detention of any student till Class 8. However, there has been much debate on this clause, with surmounting pressure for revocation of the No-Detention Policy and Continuous & Comprehensive Learning.[]
Grievances Redress Mechanism for RTE
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The 86th Amendment to the Constitution has made Elementary Education a Fundamental Right of every child in the age group 6-14 years. Based on this Amendment the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act was passed in Parliament in August 2009 and[]
Shiksha Samvad (Education Dialogue): Strengthening People's Engagement with Education
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The success of the Right to Education (RtE) Act depends largely on ensuring accountability at a decentralized level closer to the people. However, while the Act includes certain provisions that could further this goal, there have been problems o[]
Guidelines for School Social Audits
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Over the last two decades, civil society organizations, academics, and researchers have debated different methods for measuring and improving transparency, accountability and monitoring in development programs meant for the poor. In this area, Soc[]
India's Sustainable Development Led Approach to Climate Mitigation for Paris
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What should India put forward as the mitigation component of its climate contribution? India has dual interests in climate negotiations: safeguarding adequate energy for development, and promoting an effective international agreement to limit its []
An Approach to Sustainable Development Based Energy and Climate Policy
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Planning for Indias energy future requires addressing multiple and simultaneous economic, social and environmental challenges. While there has been conceptual progress towards harnessing their synergies, there are limited methodologies available []
India-Africa Brief: Courting Africa through Economic Diplomacy
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India is undergoing structural urban and economic transitions and has set ambitious policy targets to meet its rising energy needs for development. Expanding coal and renewables are two important pillars of this undertaking and, since 2008, climat[]
India's Energy and Climate Policy: Lessons from Modelling Studies
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Understanding Indias likely energy future is important for both development planning and climate policy. This review of seven national energy and climate modelling studies finds energy use will increase substantially in the absence of additional []
Building Institutions for Climate Policy in India
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This brief lays out a new approach to Indian climate governance. We suggest Indias institutional structure should be aimed at generating and adopting low-carbon development pathways. Doing so implies going beyond energy and emissions policies to []
CZMAs and Coastal Environments: Two Decades of Regulating Land Use Change on Indias Coastline
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This project is part of an effort to understand how institutions function and interface with the lives of ordinary citizens. It seeks to bridge the gap between law and life. Namati as an organisation is dedicated to researching and understanding h[]
CZMAs and Coastal Environments: Two Decades of Regulating Land Use Change on India's Coastline
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Coastal Zone Management Authorities (CZMAs) are one of the oldest environmental regulatory bodies in India. On the basis of an order of the Supreme Court in April 1996 (WP 664/1993) and under MoEF orders issued in 1998, these bodies were constitut[]
Development and Climate Policy Synergies: Insights from global modelling studies
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Indias approach to climate policy is based on amplifying synergies between sustainable development and climate outcomes, or co-benefits. However, the evidence base for the magnitude of these synergies remains limited. This brief summarizes the re[]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Visit to Bangladesh: Deepening Economic Cooperation and Development Assistance
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Bangladesh as a neihboring country holds crucial geostrategic and economic significance for India. It also serves well with Indias model of South-South development cooperation and provides ample support to Indias Act East Policy. Importantly[]
Symposium Report: Constitutionalism, Religious Freedom and Human Rights: Constitutional Migration and Transjudicialism beyond the North Atlantic
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Creating a framework of religion-state relations that would mollify tensions between religions, within religions, and between believers and non-believers, has been the bane of many a constitution-framers existence. And when issues pertaining to t[]
Key legal issues in the 2015 climate negotiations
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In fashioning the new international climate change agreement to be adopted later this year in Paris, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must address a range of legal issues. This brief outlines some of th[]
Differentiation in a 2015 climate agreement
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A central issue in the ongoing negotiations towards a new international climate change agreement this year in Paris is how the agreement will differentiate obligations among developed and developing countries. Differentiation among parties to the []
Categorisation of settlement in Delhi
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Policy and planning documents define eight types of settlement in Delhi, only one of which is termed planned. The other seven types of settlement become, by opposition, unplanned. This unplanned city houses the vast majority of Delhis resid[]
Informing India's Energy and Climate Debate: Policy Lessons from Modelling Studies
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What should India put forward as the mitigation component of its climate contribution (or Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC))? Since energy accounts for 77% of Indias greenhouse gas emissions, this question can only be answered []
The intersection of governments in Delhi
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Many of the challenges and complexities of governance in Delhi arise from its place at the intersection of local, state, and national jurisdictions. This brief explains Delhis governance structure at the local, state, and union levels of government.
Budget Brief 2015-16: Sarva Shiksha Abhyan
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Allocations for MoDWS in FY 2013- 14 accounted for 0.11% of the GDP at current prices. With the launch of SBM in 2014, allocations increased by 24% from FY 2013-14 to FY 2014-15. In FY 2015-16, 3,625 crore has been allocated for SBM – an inc[]
Budget Brief 2015-16: Swachh Bharat Mission
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Budget Brief 2015-16: Backward Regions Grant Fund
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Between FY 2006-07 and FY 2010- 11, allocations for the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) more than doubled from 2,000 crore to 5,171 crore. In FY 2015-16, GOI discontinued key schemes run by the Ministry. Consequently, allocations have fallen to []
Budget Brief 2015-16: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
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In FY 2015-16, 34,699 crore was allocated to MGNREGS, accounting for 47% of the total MoRD budget. An additional 5,000 crore has been committed in 2015-16, based on resource availability. The timing of fund releases has slowed down considerably in[]
Budget Brief 2015-16: National Health Mission
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Total public health expenditure (GOI and states) more than doubled between FY 2008-09 and FY 2014- 15. However, as a percentage of GDP, expenditures in FY 2014-15 remained at 1.2% of GDP. GOI allocations for NHM stand at 18,875 crore in FY 2015-16[]
Budget Brief 2015-16: Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
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With the launch of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE), the total SSA budget (including GOI and state shares) increased over 2-fold from `27,552 crore in FY 2009-10 to 69,982 crore in FY 2012-13. Since FY 2013-14, however, the total a[]
50 Years of Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation: A Report
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As the program on Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) continues to grow, through this comprehensive study, IDCR analyzes the evolution of ITEC, and its impact on Indias bilateral relations with partner countries. The study also provi[]
India-Pacific Islands Brief
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The Pacific Islands, a group of fourteen island nations in the South Pacific Ocean had been a source of low interest for the global powers, however, this seems to have changed as Asia draws increasing attention from the world economies in the 21st[]
A Framework of Principles for Environmental Regulatory Reform
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A High Level Committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on 29. 08. 2014 has been given the task of reviewing six environmental laws that are several decades old now. During the time they have been in implementation, numerous []
Citizen Monitoring of Schools
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Even as large parts of government budgets and efforts are directed towards fighting the pandemic, it is important to ensure that children are not overlooked. Critical during this time is going to be ensuring that sufficient resources are provided []
Report of the Expert Committee on the New Capital for Andhra Pradesh
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This Report, prepared by the Expert Committee appointed by the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs under section 6 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, is a study of the various alternatives regarding new capital for the Successor State o[]
Policy Brief - Indian Economic Diplomacy in the 21st Century
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The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi hosted a workshop on Mobilizing the State: Indian Economic Diplo- macy in the 21st Century on 5 – 6 June, 2014. The recommendations that emerged are detailed in this policy brief. This policy brief[]
Balancing State, Utility and Social Need in Agricultural Electricity Subsidy: The Case for a Holistic Approach to Reform
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Although the damaging impacts of agricultural electricity subsidy were well recognized, there was hardly any attempt at reform until the early 1990s. With the advent of liberalization, agricultural electricity pricing came under scrutiny for its e[]
India-Tajakistan Brief
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Tajikistan holds huge significance for fulfilling Indias broader interests in the Central Asian region especially its Connect Central Asia policy. More importantly, stronger India-Tajikistan partnership is of key importance for India to amplify[]
India in the World- Benchmarking Progress in Urban Sanitation Performance
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This brief makes an attempt to benchmark Indias performance globally, from Indias perspective. It compares the sanitation scenario in India with the MDG regional blocks and other comparator countries. The brief makes use of a set of global data []
Analysis of Indias State Action Plans on Climate Change of Five States
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1. An analysis of Karnatakas Action Plan on Climate Change 2. An analysis of the State Strategy and Action plan on Climate Change, Himachal Pradesh 3. An analysis of the Sikkim Action Plan on Climate Change 4. An analysis of the Odisha Climate Ch[]
The State of Indian Development Cooperation: A Report
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Indian development cooperation has changed remarkably since its inception, shortly after its independence.The size and diversity of Indias development partnerships have grown, particularly over the past decade, nearly quadrupling in volume. Today[]
Keeping the NUSP effort on Track - A Case for Active Monitoring
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This is a policy discussion note, which examines how coordinated and widespread have the different initiatives to improve urban sanitation been across cities and states and what possible steps may be taken by the Government of India to actively su[]
Indonesia's Approach to Urban Sanitation - Lessons for India
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The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) data for 2011 shows that Indonesia comes second after India in number of people without access to toilets. In urban areas 13.9% of the population in India practice open defecation, while the number is []
A Tale of two STPs - Case study of Puri
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Is a case study from a temple town (Puri) in the east coast of India. This case study begins with how this small city famous for temple based tourism, first came to set up a waste water treatment system and then goes onto illustrate how the underg[]
Report and Proceedings from the Policy Roundtable: Achieving the NUSP Vision: the Importance of Decentralized Options
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The roundtable was jointly organized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Centre for Policy Research on the side-lines of the BMGFs Reinvent the Toilet Fare. The roundtable brought together senior policy makers, city and state level i[]
From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India as a 'Door Opener' to a sustainable future
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State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) hold potential as an important intervention in the development process. They provide an institutional platform to mainstream concerns of environmental sustainability into development planning and, if do[]
Analysis of Indias State Action Plans on Climate Change of Five States
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In 2014, CPR conducted an analysis of Indias State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) of five states: Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. Below are links to them: An analysis of Karnatakas Action Plan on Climate C[]
An analysis of Karnataka's Action Plan on Climate Change
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In 2014, the Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) to resolve Indias sanitation bottlenecks and accelerate the development of sanitation markets. Targeting the elimination of open defecation through universal toilet[]
An analysis of the Madhya Pradesh State Action Plan on Climate Change
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Unlike some other states such as Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, and Gujarat, climate change has not been a prominent part of the Government of Karnatakas pronouncements on its future development direction. While senior state bureaucrats have been supp[]
An analysis of the Odisha Climate Change Action Plan
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Odisha was the one of the first states to begin work on a Climate Change Action Plan in 2009. The plan had the support of the Chief Minister (CM) and was led separately by two senior bureaucrats who put in place very different institutional practi[]
An analysis of the Sikkim Action Plan on Climate Change
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Sikkim has been engaged in a number of climate related initiatives since 2008. Much of the work has been supported by a Chief Minister (CM) keen to further the states green credentials. Sikkims climate plan drafted as an extension of its green[]
A Guide to India's Coastal Regulation Zones (Gujarati)
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So that local people can use and understand the laws regulating development and the environment of Indias coast, Namati has created a Coastal Regulation Zones booklet. It covers all the information available in the complex official document, but []
India-Central Asia Backgrounder
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Soon after India’s partition in 1947, its historical ties with the Central Asian region (CAR) suffered a setback as it lost its direct overland access to the region. However, in the following decades India somewhat resurrected its relation w[]
Monitoring RTE
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This document is not just a report or a mere documentation of a pilot process, but an attempt to chronicle the numerous stories of thousands of people who have been part of a community monitoring process rolled out by the NCPCR and supported by th[]
Community Monitoring Process of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009
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This photo document is part of a larger exercise on documenting the ‘Community Monitoring’ process of the Right to Education Act (RTE), a process that first began in 2010 when this team was at the National Commission for the Protection[]
Report and Proceedings from Towards Universal Urban Sanitation: Smaller Cities a Priority Area for Policy Focus
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Preliminary analysis of data sets the Census 2011 and the allocation of funds under JNNURM to create urban infrastructure revealed a clear bias. Public funded programmes especially on sanitation where primarily focusing on large cities, while sm[]
India -- Vietnam Relations: Deepening Bilateral Ties for Mutual Benefit
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The India-Vietnam bilateral relationship in the past has been supported by various commonalities including six decades of anti-colonial interests, pan-Asian nationalism and independent foreign policies. The first instance of Indias development co[]
PAISA District Surveys: Mid Day Meal Scheme (2012)
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This study employs a combination of primary survey work and secondary analysis of government documents, to track releases and expenditures of foodgrains and fund flows from Government of India (GOI) all the way down to the schools for the financia[]
Coastal Zone Regulations (English and Tamil)
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So that local people can use and understand the laws regulating development and the environment of Indias coast, Namati has created a Coastal Regulation Zones booklet that covers all the information available in the complex official document, but[]
India-Afghanistan Partnership
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India is undergoing structural urban and economic transitions and has set ambitious policy targets to meet its rising energy needs for development. Expanding coal and renewables are two important pillars of this undertaking and, since 2008, climat[]
PAISA District Studies Rural 2010-11
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Between May 2011 and August 2011, the PAISA team went to around 1300 schools in 9 districts spread across 7 states to do a detailed PAISA study on elementary education financing. The study focused on tracking the flow of funds from their point of []
Saving Money and Energy: Case Study of the Energy-Efficiency Retrofit of the Godrej Bhavan Building in Mumbai
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Historic blackouts across India in July 2012 revealed the severity of Indias energy crisis. Looking ahead, scaling up energy efficiency promises to be the fastest, cheapest, and cleanest way to help meet Indias energy demands. As the country exp[]
Tenant Space Case Study: Natural Resources Defense Council Washington, D.C. Office
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In July 2011, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) relocated its Washington, D.C. office to a new space designed with a focus on energy efficiency and sustainability. NRDC is an international nonprofit environmental organization committed to p[]
Constructing Change: Accelerating Energy Efficiency in India's Buildings Market
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Blackouts across India in July 2012 revealed the severity of Indias energy crisis. Looking ahead to 2017, India must increase its energy production by 6.5 percent annually from 2011 levels to maintain a 9 percent growth rate. This growth rate wil[]
Do schools get their money? (PAISA Report 2012)
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Between October and November 2012, PAISA went to 14,591 government run elementary schools across India to ask the following questions: Did you get your money? When did you get your money? Did you spend the money? And if so, what was the output of []
NonAlignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty First Century
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Speaking at a recent summit, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to India as a bright spot in the global economy. Indias rapid domestic growth and growing integration with global trade, technology and financial flows support his asse[]
Taking Energy Efficiency to New Heights: Analysis and Recommendations for the Buildings Sector from the Hyderabad Experience
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India has the second-fastest growing economy in the world and is committed to minimizing the impacts of climate change. The nation has adopted a National Action Plan on Climate Change to guide its efforts in building a low-carbon economy. Strong e[]
Mapping Medical Providers in Rural India: Four Key Trends
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In this study, any practitioner that served as a primary point of contact for the d