AYAN BORDOLOIBackgroundRakhine State is at a special place in India’s neighbourhood policy. It is situated on the Bay of Bengal, flanked by Bangladesh and is home to the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project (KMTTP) that is expected to connect...
Policy UpdateKarnavi ShendeBACKGROUNDSelf-Help Groups (SHGs) emerged in India during the early 1980s as a response to the persistent exclusion of rural poor, particularly women, from formal financial systems. Traditional banking institutions required collateral and formal documentation that marginalized communities...
Policy UpdateMadhesh Raj P RBackground In recent years, heatwaves have become a major concern worldwide. The recent incidents of heatwaves have shown the severe effects of climate change and the urgent need to address environmental challenges, especially in India. Between...
Policy UpdateArjya Shree PandeBackgroundThe National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) of India was unveiled on 10 October 2014 by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare as the country’s first dedicated policy framework for mental health (Press Information Bureau,...
Policy UpdateArjya Shree PandeBackgroundThe National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) of India was unveiled on 10 October 2014 by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare as the country’s first dedicated policy framework for mental health (Press Information Bureau,...
Policy Update Pritha ChowdhuryBackgroundWetlands and lakes are important aquatic ecosystems that support biodiversity, regulate water flows, recharge groundwater, store carbon, and provide livelihoods to local communities. However, increasing urbanisation, untreated sewage, industrial effluents, encroachment, solid-waste dumping, excessive nutrient loading...
Policy UpdateVibha SethiA Strategic Policy Update on Decarbonizing Hard-to-Abate Sectors and Recalibrating National Income Accounting Frameworks.BackgroundTraditional economic growth metrics have long faced criticism for overlooking environmental externalities, resource depletion, and ecological degradation. In India, the conventional Gross Domestic Product...
Policy UpdateAyan BordoloiBackgroundThe BRICS Vaccine Research and Development (R&D) Centre is an almost imperceptible entity, as it took a long time to establish the institution. Its concept was first introduced during the 2018 Johannesburg Summit, where South Africa offered...
Policy UpdateMadhesh Raj P RBackground In recent years, heatwaves have become a major concern worldwide. The recent incidents of heatwaves have shown the severe effects of climate change and the urgent need to address environmental challenges, especially in India. Between...
Policy UpdateSandra MenonIntroductionThe development path taken by India for many decades has been plagued by a structural contradiction; that the forest land required for mining, road-building, power transmission, and industry projects was also land that had been pledged to...
