social registries, cash transfers to women

Social registries cannot settle women’s cash transfers

Social registries can target income support, but they weaken schemes meant to recognise women’s unpaid care work. Read more »
PSU disinvestment

PSU disinvestment no substitute for reform

PSU disinvestment can ease FY27 fiscal arithmetic; it cannot fix subsidy pressure or weak tax buoyancy. #PSU #disinvestment Read more »
AI command centre can plug cyber governance gaps

AI command centre can plug cyber governance gaps

An AI command centre will work only if it has protocols, technical depth and authority across other regulators. #AIcommand #cybersecurity Read more »
Subhadra Yojana Odisha

Subhadra Yojana: Odisha’s cash scheme lacks power

Subhadra Yojana gives Odisha women cash, but leaves credit, skills and market access outside the scheme. Read more »
delhi urban heat island

Delhi urban heat island exposes planning neglect

CSE data shows Delhi’s urban heat island is concentrated where planning and affordable housing failed. Read more »
Malnutrition policy

Malnutrition policy must move beyond hunger

Malnutrition policy must address diet quality, food marketing and the price of healthy food. #malnutrition Read more »
fiscal policy

Fiscal policy needs a permanent capex bias

India’s post-pandemic growth held up because the fiscal policy cut the deficit while raising the capital outlay share. Read more »
Mega Science Vision 2035

Mega Science Vision 2035 puts climate research to work

Mega Science Vision 2035 treats climate science as infrastructure for farms, cities, water systems and public health. #science Read more »
Kerala K-CDC

Kerala’s K-CDC must start with monsoon surveillance

Kerala’s monsoon brings overlapping disease threats. K-CDC must link health, animal, climate and local-body data. Read more »
financial inclusion

Financial inclusion is incomplete without access to bank branches

Evidence from Nagaland shows why India must add proximity and access to banks as a financial inclusion metric. Read more »