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Smriti Mudgal Sharma
Smriti Sharma is a public policy professional who writes on various economic development issues including agriculture, health, consumer protection and financial inclusion. She has consulted with various prestigious organisations like the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and Global Value Chain Centre of Duke University. She worked as a Senior News Anchor and Assistant Editor with CNBC Awaaz and NDTV-Profit prior to her career in public policy.
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कॉन्ट्रैक्ट फार्मिंग और सरकार की भूमिका
कृषि उद्योगों के साथ किसानों को जोड़ने के लिए कृषि मंत्रालय ने मॉडल कॉन्ट्रैक्ट फार्मिंग एक्ट का प्रारूप जारी किया है, जो कॉन्ट्रैक्ट फार्मिंग के लिए एक विनियामक और नीति ढांचा तैयार करना चाहता है। इस लेख में, स्मृति शर्मा तर्क प्रस्तुत करती हैं कि इस कानून का उद्देश्य किसानों की रक्षा करना और ख़रीददारों को एक-दूसरे के साथ स्वतंत्र रूप से अनुबंध करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करना होना चाहिए। नौकरशाही बाधाओं को बनाने के बजाय, सरकार को कॉन्ट्रैक्ट फार्मिंग के लिए सक्षम वातावरण प्रदान करने पर ध्यान केंद्रित करना चाहिए।
Contract farming and the role of government
To integrate farmers with agro-industries, the Ministry of Agriculture has released a draft Model Contract Farming Act, which seeks to create a regulatory and policy framework for contract farming. In this article, Smriti Sharma contends that the legislation should aim to protect farmers and incentivise buyers to freely contract with each other. Rather than creating bureaucratic hurdles, the government should focus on providing an enabling environment for contract farming.
National Health Stack: A job half well-done
To support the implementation of the recently launched National Health Protection Scheme, NITI Aayog has proposed the creation of digital infrastructure called National Health Stack. In this post, Smriti Sharma discusses the thinking behind National Health Stack, and whether it can help overcome the challenges faced by existing government-sponsored public health schemes. She contends that laying a technology framework on top of a flawed system will not resolve underlying issues.
How do better-ranked colleges help meet India’s skill shortages? Evidence using a regression discontinuity design
This project exploits the variation in the University of Delhi college admission process to estimate the effects of exposure to high-achieving peers on cognitive attainment using scores on standardised university level examinations; behavioral outcomes such as risk preference, competitiveness, and confidence; and noncognitive outcomes using measures of Big Five personality traits.
Gorakhpur's Japanese Encephalitis malady
The recent controversy around multiple child deaths in a public hospital in Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh has brought the focus back on Japanese Encephalitis – the child killer disease. In this article, Smriti Sharma contends that a holistic, intersectoral approach is required to tackle the issue.
Moving towards a principles-based drug retail policy in India?
The health ministry has proposed a new e-platform for tracking the country’s entire drug supply chain, including online sales. In this article, Smriti Sharma and Amey Sapre contend that the e-platform is a step in the right direction, but imposing the requirement of brick-and-mortar facilities on e-pharmacies is incorrect. Regulators should adopt an approach that promotes the principles of competition, innovation, and customer protection and responsibility in the drugs market.