MGNREGA

MGNREGA dilution risks undermining the right to work

Structural changes to MGNREGA risk weakening its right to work guarantee and local planning framework. #MGNREGA Read more »
India’s fertiliser policy

India’s fertiliser policy: How subsidies carry strategic risks

India’s fertiliser policy now tests the balance between farm welfare, public finances and strategic autonomy. #fertiliser Read more »
PM Surya Ghar Yojana

PM Surya Ghar Yojana is changing how India consumes power

PM Surya Ghar Yojana marks a shift from centralised power to household-led energy generation in India. #PMSuryaGharYojana Read more »
GST reform

What GST reform got right — and where it fell short

GST’s success today lies less in ambition and more in predictability, compliance discipline, and cooperative federalism. #GST Read more »
mutual fund expenses

SEBI’s mutual fund expenses reset puts transparency first

SEBI’s mutual fund expenses overhaul signals a move from rule accumulation to rule rationalisation. #SEBI Read more »
MGNREGA reform

MGNREGA reform risks weakening rural India’s last safety net

The proposed MGNREGA reforms expand the promise of work, but by weakening payment certainty and legal enforceability, it risks hollowing out India’s most reliable rural stabiliser. #MGNREGA Read more »
microfinance sector

A microfinance reset may be painful — but necessary

India’s microfinance sector is correcting past excesses, but shrinking loan books, stressed household cash flows, and cautious lenders now threaten to turn a reset into exclusion. #MFI #microfinance Read more »
monetary policy changes across the world

How crisis-era monetary policy reshaped the limits of central banking

Years of quantitative easing helped economies stabilise after 2008, but the central banks are now attempting to reverse it through monetary policy. Read more »
insurance FDI

Insurance FDI reform opens doors — but it won’t flood the market

Raising insurance FDI limits may improve capital and governance, but without fixing distribution and regulation, India’s penetration problem will persist. #FDI #insurance Read more »
nuclear policy

Nuclear policy needs realism, not grand targets

India's nuclear policy must temper ambition with execution capacity and energy economics. #nuclear #SHANTIBill Read more »