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Policy UpdateVibha SethiBackgroundWhen the price of essential kitchen items like onions, potatoes, or dal shoots up suddenly, it acts as an immediate financial shock to millions of households in India. For a lower-middle-class or vulnerable family, a sudden spike...
Policy UpdateGowri KodaliBackgroundPuducherry is a Union Territory with a distinctive administrative geography. Unlike most states and Union Territories that form one continuous geographical unit, Puducherry consists of four separate regions—Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe, and Yanam—located along different parts of India’s...
Siddharth SinghClimate change is no longer just an environmental issue, it is rapidly becoming one of India’s greatest public health challenges. While conversations often focus on melting glaciers or rising sea levels, the most immediate impacts are being felt...
Dolly KaushikThe next contest over strategic power may not be fought over oil alone. Increasingly, it is being shaped by lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements – the minerals behind electric vehicles, renewable energy, electronics and defence systems....
Policy UpdateAngela RajeevBackgroundOld-age pensions are one of the oldest tools of social protection anywhere. In India it sits at the crosshairs of elderly poverty relief and dignity. The Union government’s main instrument is the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)...
Policy UpdatePragya RaghavBackgroundKerala’s welfare delivery operates in a state where geography, demography and social needs make reaching people effectively particularly important. Spread across 38,863 sq km and home to nearly 3.6 crore people, Kerala combines a densely populated midland...
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundChhattisgarh, carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000, covers 1,35,192 sq km, the 9th largest state in India, and had a 2011 Census population of 2.55 crore, of which 30.6 percent belong to Scheduled Tribes and...
Policy UpdateDevanandanaAccessible and affordable public transportation is an important feature of inclusive development. It allows individuals to take part in the education system as well as access essential services like job placement and health services thereby encouraging economic...
Policy UpdateAmrutha Lahari KolluruIntroductionAs stated in an IMPRI Policy Insights piece by TK Arun, (Arun T. K., 2026), Mountains are potential mines! This cogent statement seamlessly highlights an ideological threat that has the potential to manifest into an...
Vaibhav KushwahaWomen’s Development as a Foundation of Sustainable DevelopmentWomen constitute nearly half of the world’s population, making their participation essential for achieving any meaningful development agenda. Yet women and girls continue to face barriers in education, healthcare, employment, political...
