Revathy Suryanarayana

Revathy Suryanarayana has a B.A. in Economics from Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi University, and a Masters in Economics from University of Warwick. She is a current graduate student at the Policy Analysis and Management Department, Cornell University. Her research interests lie in labour economics, education and health economics, and economics of gender. of gender, and network economics.

जनभाषा? मातृभाषा में पढ़ाई शिक्षा को कैसे प्रभावित करती है
2016 में जारी किए किए गए राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति के प्रारूप में मातृभाषा में शिक्षा, खास कर स्कूल के रचनात्मक वर्षों के दौरान मातृभाषा में शिक्षा के महत्व पर जोर दिया गया था। इस कॉलम में दक्षिणी भारत की बड़े पैमाने की ऐतिहासिक घटनाओं के डेटा का उपयोग करके स्कूलों में मातृभाषा के उपयोग और शैक्षिक उपलब्धि के बीच लिंक को स्पष्ट करने का प्रयास किया गया है। इसमें पाया गया कि मातृभाषा में शिक्षा के कारण प्राथमिक और माध्यमिक स्तर की स्कूली शिक्षा के दौरान शैक्षिक उपलब्धियों में लगातार वृद्धि हुई।

Designing India’s national healthcare protection: Challenges and opportunities
The burden of non-communicable diseases, requiring costly hospital-based treatment, is increasing in India, and only 15% of the population has health insurance coverage. The Modi government recently introduced the Ayushman Bharat–National Health Protection Mission that aims to pay for tertiary healthcare for nearly 100 million families across the country. In this post, Debnath et al. highlight design issues that the programme must overcome to deliver on its promise.

Common tongue? How mother tongue instruction influences education
The recently released draft of the National Education Policy stresses the importance of education in the mother tongue, especially in the formative years at school. This column seeks to uncover the link between vernacular language use in schools and educational achievement using data from large-scale historical events in South India. It finds that mother-tongue instruction led to persistent increases in educational achievement in primary and secondary schooling.
