PM Narendra Modi declares India ODF on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical.
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Declaring India ‘Open Defecation Free’ Doesn’t Mean Sanitation Goals Have Been Met
Overcoming resistance to toilet usage requires addressing values, norms and beliefs that will lead to behaviour change, and ultimately the health and economic benefits.
Deconstructing the Indian bureaucracy
T.R. Raghunandan’s new book, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask provides a satirical and insightful deconstruction of the bureaucracy for the common man
Swachh Bharat? Condition of public toilets continues to be dismal
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented with great gusto, the condition of public toilets in our country continues to be dismal. We gather opinion from people on the street across the national capital on why it is so, and what can be done to improve things.
Odisha Improves Child & Maternal Health, Progresses Faster Than Other Poor States
Odisha, one of India’s poorest states, has made significant progress in reducing child undernutrition—less than India as a whole, but more than other poor states, such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Keep Planting Money Plants
Forests have been all over the news recently as the Brazilian Amazon burns and the world reacts. One of the most consequential decisions for India’s forests will be made soon in a surprising place — the 15th Finance Commission.
Throttled at the Grass Roots
Local governments remain hamstrung and ineffective — mere agents to do the bidding of higher level governments
Does Modi’s population control call signal India unable to leverage demographic dividend?Auto Draft
In his Independence Day speech, PM Narendra Modi said India needs to control its population. He asked people to think and act like ‘small families’ that ‘express their patriotism’ by following this policy. Modi said ‘population explosion’ will cause many problems for India’s future generation.
Indian citizens care about water but do Indian voters? What data tells us
The gap between what voters say are key issues for them and whom they choose to vote for is wide and, at times, unfathomable.
India’s 2020 budget paints unrealistic targets
There is widespread disappointment with the union budget, which offers little to jumpstart a slow economy