The National Programme of Mid Day Meal is modelled along the lines of the Mid Day Meal Programme of 1925 by the Madras Municipal Corporation for the disadvantaged children. Post independence, states like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and the Union…
Arun Kumar The government is accelerating the process of privatizing the public sector under one pretext or the other. This process was set in motion in 1991 with the new economic policies (NEP) but now using the excuse of dealing…
Tikender Singh Panwar The gap between the top 10% asset holders and the bottom 10% is 500 times in rural India but is shockingly 50,000 times in urban areas, Oxfam, the British founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations, reported…
TK Arun China is now the biggest potential source of global economic instability, thanks to mulish persistence with the zero-Covid strategy favored by its authoritarian leadership. This potential instability also manifests the contradiction between centralized decisionmaking and a capitalist economy…
Amita Singh In one of the consultative meetings of the World Food Programme on disaster management organized by Sphere India recently, somebody raised objections to the role of humanitarian law in disaster management on the logic that this is already…
IMPRI Team To discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women and to put light upon unpaid care work, the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted a special lecture under the…