While there has been an overall increase in social sector allocation, these are by no means significant. Yamini shares her thoughts on the 2016 budget and the social sector.
Tag: Social Sector Spending
The State of Social Sector Spending in 15-16
Avani and Vikram analyse the state of social sector spending in 2015 – 2016. Overall, it was found that social sector investments have in fact increased across all states, except Bihar.
Reservation under RTE: Status of implementation and way forward
This column analyses the current status of implementation of Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, and suggests ways to overcome hindrances in effective implementation and make the education system more inclusive.
How PAISA Is Establishing Data Driven Accountability in the Education Sector
“Do Schools Get Their Money?” is one of the key questions which drives the PAISA (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions: Studies in Accountability) project at Accountability Initiative
How data can mislead in analysing social policy
India needs a transformation in how data is measured and analysed to form policy
Policy goes missing amid slogans
In villages where the number of households as per the baseline survey is less than the actual households, the toilet building exercise poses an allocation challenge: Who gets the limited number of toilets?
Sloganeering apart, one interpretation of this government’s approach to social policy is that it quite simply doesn’t want to have one