Universal pension and health coverage

Unified health interface key to accessible health services

The proposed unified health interface will improve delivery of health services by ensuring interoperability of information across various applications used by patients and service providers. Read more »
demographic dividend through quality education

NSO data: Unemployment rate falls, but, women participation still lags behind

While the employment numbers are encouraging, the participation of women in the workforce remains dismal when compared to their male counterparts. Read more »
campus sustainability and sdgs

Campus sustainability key to India’s commitment to sustainable development

Indian universities must look beyond curricula, student intake, faculty development, and infrastructure building to focus on campus sustainability. Read more »
insolvency and bankruptcy, IBC

10 years of POCSO Act: Has India failed to protect its children

More POCSO courts need to be set up, and the appointment of trained special public prosecutors for child abuse cases must be speeded up. Read more »
demographic dividend through quality education

Brain drain: India may be losing top talent as students flock to study abroad

Brain Drain: Indian students in foreign universities tend to stay back after completing their courses as foreign education prepares them for better jobs opportunities available in developed countries. Read more »
Income inequality

SDG 5: Govt must offer social protection to unpaid women workers

The government should promote employment generation and enhance social protection in sectors with major presence of women workers to achieve target 5.4 of the sustainable development goals. Read more »
agriculture, budget 2023

Stubble burning: Lessons abound, but awareness, will to act absent

Farmers who engage in stubble burning have become the fall guys in the blame game, but Delhi air quality cannot improve without solving issues such as vehicular pollution and garbage dumps. Read more »
FOOD GRAIN, WHEAT EXPORTS, WHEAT, FOOD

Wheat exports: Uncertainty looms despite Russia’s re-entry into deal

Russia’s participation in the wheat exports deal is essential for keeping a global food shortage from getting worse. Read more »
Fertiliser, one nation one fertilizer policy. gm crops

Fertiliser subsidies need deeper reforms, better targeting

India must cut fertiliser subsidies by targeting them better, while also making efforts to reduce the use of chemical fertilisers to facilitate climate change mitigation. Read more »
democracy index rankings

Flawed practices behind India’s low democracy index rankings

The institutions that publish democracy index rankings are not biased, but they fail to filter out the biases of people who conduct the studies, says Salvatore Babones. Read more »