Can India realize its demographic potential in the absence of a far-sighted policy for education as a whole?
Category: Op-Eds
Budget 2018: Stumbling towards sustainable sanitation
The challenge will be in ensuring that open defecation-free villages and cities are truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so.
Budget 2018: India’s secondary education challenge- it’s not elementary, my dear
India has such limited access to basic education that any conversation about quality education is seen as aspirational bordering on utopian
Budget 2018 view: ‘Patient’ approach to better health
Budget 2018 view: ‘Patient’ approach to better health
The vicious cycle of unspent balances – Part 2
Why is the money allocated to social sector schemes left unspent.
The vicious cycle of unspent balances – Part 1
Why is the money allocated to social sector schemes left unspent.
Did Union Budget – 2016 allocate more for rural India and the social sector? Not really
A closer look at budgetary numbers highlights why Indian budgets need to be more transparent.
A status quo budget for the social sector
It should lay to rest the ongoing debate about this government’s attempt to radically restructure India’s welfare architecture.
Renewed focus on maternal and child health a welcome first step
The demonetisation sop is a unique opportunity to evolve the maternal and child health agenda into a universal Maternity Benefits Programme in the budget.
Malnourished Systems: Why India’s Child Development Programme Is Getting Stunted
Why India’s Child Development Programme Is Getting Stunted?