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Bihar ITI reform must shift focus from seats to jobs

Bihar ITI reform must focus on women’s access to training, migration-ready skills and trades linked to real labour demand. #Bihar #ITIreform Read more »
Cleaner mobility scheme

Cleaner mobility scheme targets Delhi-NCR’s dirty trucks

Delhi-NCR’s cleaner mobility scheme targets old buses and trucks, but execution will decide its air-quality impact. #airpollution Read more »
Cooling infrastructure

Cooling infrastructure must be India’s next climate priority

India’s heat crisis shows why cooling infrastructure is now central to climate adaptation, urban planning and labour policy. #cooling #heat #climatechange Read more »
Urban heat in India

Urban heat in India is a planning failure, not just climate change

Rising urban heat in India is not just the consequence of climate change, it is also because of poor urban governance and shoddy planning. #heat #urbanplanning Read more »
New IIP series

New IIP series gives India sharper industrial data

The new IIP series updates India’s industrial data for an economy reshaped by manufacturing, renewables and infrastructure. #IIP #manufacturing Read more »
Migrant labour welfare

Migrant labour welfare needs portable benefits

Migrant labour welfare is now central to industrial productivity, urban planning, and India’s manufacturing ambitions. #labour #migrant #welfare Read more »
NHIS 2026

NHIS 2026 and India’s search for reliable income data

NHIS 2026 could reshape welfare, poverty and inequality measurement, but informality remains the biggest obstacle. #incomesurvey Read more »
RBI monetary policy

RBI monetary policy faces West Asia oil shock test

West Asia tensions have turned oil prices into a test of credibility for RBI monetary policy and its inflation-targeting framework. Read more »
Women micro-entrepreneurs

Women micro-entrepreneurs need markets beyond credit

Social commerce can help women micro-entrepreneurs convert local trust into wider market access. #MSMEs Read more »
VB-G RAM G

VB-G RAM G: Rural jobs guarantee faces fiscal test

VB-G RAM G shifts rural employment funding from demand-driven spending to normative allocations, raising concerns over state capacity and worker rights. #jobs #MGNREGA Read more »