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Bijeta Mohanty
Bijeta Mohanty is the Programme Economist for the IGC India Programme. She did her MA in Globalisation, Business and Development from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. Previously she has worked on a project that involved managing program implementation of a large scale RCT research study for an ed-tech program in Government Senior Secondary schools of Haryana.
Her postgraduate dissertation aimed to understand how grassroots innovations can be leveraged for wider diffusion. And this was studied by exploring the effort behind institutionalising these practices in India and the different enablers that create an enabling environment for grassroots innovations. She has a keen interest in exploring different aspects of Monitoring and Evaluations processes.
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Webinar video: Putting farmers first
In December 2020, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) organised a webinar on ‘Putting Farmers First’. The panel comprised Siraj Hussain (Senior Visiting Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)), Sudha Narayanan (Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)), Vikas Rawal (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University), and N Vijaya Lakshmi (Principal Secretary, Government of Bihar). The event was moderated by Sukhpal Singh (Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad).
Webinar video: Navigating Covid-19 impact on agriculture supply chains
In October 2020, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) organised a webinar on ‘Navigating the Impact of Covid-19 on the Agriculture Supply Chain in India’. The panel comprised N. Saravana Kumar (Secretary, Agriculture Department, Government of Bihar), Siraj Hussain (Senior Visiting Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and former Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India), Shekhar Tomar (Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business). The discussion was moderated by Mekhala Krishnamurthy (Associate Professor, Ashoka University).