Strengthening the Draft National Policy on Migrant WorkersPriya DeshingkarThe Niti Aayog’s draft Migrant Labour Policy is a clear statement of intent to better recognize migrants’ contribution to the economy and support them in their endeavor. It puts forward several...
Tikender Singh Panwar Shri Kirtee Shah, Founder President at Habitat Forum INHAF recently spoke at a webinar organized by IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute on new India’s transformation and what needs to be changed. During the webinar, he referred to...
Ajay GudavarthyGiven that all those who endorsed majoritarianism and believed in the 'supreme leader' are also at the receiving end now, they do not know who to blame, except to hallucinate that things are either not that bad or...
Arun KumarThe year 2021 has been widely projected to be much better than 2020 with the start of vaccination and the expected reduction of coronavirus cases and deaths. Economies were expected to recover faster from the abyss into which...
Arjun Kumar, Ritika GuptaMSMEs are key drivers of innovation, economic growth, and new employment generation, making them a key demographic constituent to measure the economic health of countries globally. And w Globalization of industries happening at a fast pace...
Utpal K De, Arjun KumarEveryone is well aware of the uses of statistics - how data is used to reveal some facts like changes of some variables over time and across communities depending on various aspects of society. Also,...
T K ArunThe government has announced some changes to its vaccine policy, allowing more companies to produce more COVID vaccines, developed locally or abroad, and allowing them to sell half their output at a price that is higher than...
Gurinder KaurThe state of Uttarakhand had not yet emerged from the wounds of the Chamoli tragedy when it was engulfed in wildfires. According to the Forest Department of Uttarakhand, from January to the first week of April 2021, there have been...
There is Structural violence that is inherent in our society on account of infrastructure projects worldwide. IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute as part of its series #CityConversations organized a lecture with Dr. Deljana Iossifova titled Infrastructuring the City: Trajectories of Violence. Dr. Deljana Iossifova is a Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies and Director, Confucius Institute, University of Manchester United Kingdom. She is also the Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation.
New cases of Corona appear to be intimidating. India has become the new 'hot spot' of Covid-19, overtaking both Brazil (66,176 daily average cases) and USA (65,624 daily average cases). For the first time in the country, over 2.5 lakh new cases of infection were reported on Sunday. This is a lamentable situation, but there is nothing to panic at the moment. For the second wave of Covid-19, need of the hour remains a 3 week long nationwide lockdown.
