27 February, 2017The State’s frontline workers: An overlooked human resource
The Covid-19 and the related lockdown have focused the nation's attention on two groups of people who number in millions but have still somehow not received adequate attention: the migrant informal wo...
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Vishwanath Giriraj 
15 April, 2020
- Notes from the Field
India’s battle against Covid-19: A comparative perspective
It has been suggested that, India could selectively relax the lockdown that has been imposed on it, given its favourable demographic profile. In this post, Ghosh and Pal argue that having a younger po...
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Sugata Ghosh Sarmistha Pal
- 16 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Gender composition of children and sanitation behaviour
Open defecation has been linked to various public health issues and has gained significant policy attention. Nonetheless, research has shown that due to son preference, households in India underinvest...
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Deepak Saraswat
- 22 April, 2020
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Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi
While there is near universal school enrolment among 6-14 year olds in India, learning levels are abysmally low. In this context, this project looks at senior secondary government schools in Delhi to ...
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Bidisha Barooah Deepti Goel
- 26 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Achieving universal health coverage in India: Inefficiency is the problem, not money
India has been widely criticised for having one of the world’s lowest public spending on health. In this article, Kanchan Mukherjee contends that even with this minimal expenditure it is possible to...
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Kanchan Mukherjee
- 19 December, 2017
- Perspectives
Improving nutritional outcomes through conditional cash transfers
The Indian government plans to universalise the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana – a conditional cash transfer programme for pregnant women and lactating mothers that aims to improve maternal and...
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Alok Kumar Sneha Palit
- 22 November, 2017
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Engaging the community to make schools accountable for delivering quality education
While the dismal quality of primary education in India has received considerable attention at the state and national levels, rural communities still seem to associate school quality with parameters su...
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K. Vaijayanti
- 21 November, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Malnutrition and the National Food Security Act
The National Food Security Act aims to remove hunger and reduce malnutrition by providing subsidised foodgrains to two-thirds of the population. Using nationally representative data, this column finds...
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Anders Kjelsrud Rohini Somanathan
- 31 October, 2017
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Barriers in accessing applications under RTE quota in Gujarat
In the school year 2017-18, Gujarat shifted from a paper-based system at the district level to an online system at the state level, for applications under the Right to Education Act. In this note, res...
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Ambrish Dongre Ishu Gupta Ankur Sarin Karan Singhal Nisha Vernekar
- 30 October, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Recognition of snakebite as a neglected tropical disease: What does it mean for India?
In June this year, the WHO placed snakebite envenoming on its list of top-20 priority neglected tropical diseases. In this article, Dr Bharati contends that India, which has the highest burden of snak...
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Kaushik Bharati
- 10 October, 2017
- Perspectives
A letter to Oxfam: Reframing the questions around private-sector healthcare
A 2009 Oxfam paper puts forth the view that scaling-up private healthcare provision is very unlikely to deliver high-quality care to the poor. Commenting on the paper, Jishnu Das contends that while i...
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Jishnu Das
- 29 September, 2017
- Perspectives
Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur: Why has vaccination failed to make an impact?
Vaccination is the mainstay of prevention strategies for Japanese encephalitis – the child killer disease that recently caused many deaths in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. In this article, Dr Kaushik B...
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Kaushik Bharati
- 18 September, 2017
- Perspectives
Making India open-defecation free by 2019
Swachh Bharat Mission – the flagship sanitation programme of the Indian government – aims to make India open-defecation free by 2019. However, this has only been achieved in 17 of 686 districts so...
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Bhaskar Pant
- 06 September, 2017
- Perspectives
Can India reap the demographic dividend in higher education?
India’s population is going through a ‘demographic bulge’, with an increase in the proportion of the working age group and a decrease in that of dependents. In this article, Shivakumar Jolad com...
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Shivakumar Jolad
- 05 September, 2017
- Perspectives
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 thi...
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Smriti Mudgal Sharma
- 24 August, 2017
- Perspectives
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