Jasmeet Khanuja

Jasmeet Khanuja is an Assistant Consultant at Oxford Policy Management Limited and is currently working on the evaluation of health and nutrition programmes in Rajasthan and assisting the evaluation of a large-scale rural livelihoods programme in Jharkhand. She is a monitoring and evaluation professional and has previously worked as a policy researcher on various state welfare programmes on food security and women’s economic empowerment with the Institute of Development Studies (UK), the Institute of Social Studies Trust and the Centre for Equity Studies. Her interest lies at the intersection of public policy and data analytics with a specific focus on women’s paid and unpaid work, maternal and child health, rural livelihoods, and social protection. Jasmeet has a Master’s degree in Development Economics from University of Sussex, UK and a Masters in Development Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi.

किसानों की आय में सुधार करना: झारखंड में किए गए सर्वेक्षण से सीख
वर्ष 2022 तक किसानों की आय को दोगुना करने के केंद्र सरकार के लक्ष्य की दिशा में कार्य करने के लिए झारखंड राज्य सरकार ने 2017 में जोहार परियोजना आरंभ की। इस लेख में खनूजा एवं अन्य ने इस परियोजना के तहत शामिल किए गए ग्रामीण उत्पादक परिवारों के एक वृहद आधार-रेखा सर्वेक्षण के परिणामों को प्रस्तुत किया है और उच्च मूल्य वाली कृषि की ओर बदलाव को सुविधाजनक बनाने की आवश्यकता पर प्रकाश डाला है।

Improving farmers’ income: Learnings from a survey in Jharkhand
To work towards the central government’s goal of doubling farmers’ incomes by 2022, the state government of Jharkhand initiated the ‘Jharkhand Opportunities for Harnessing Rural Growth’ project in 2017. In this note, Khanuja et al. present results of a large-scale baseline survey of rural producer households that was undertaken under the project and highlight the need to facilitate the shift towards high-value agriculture.
