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IMPRI, a startup research think tank, is a platform for pro-active, independent, non-partisan and policy-based research. It contributes to debates and deliberations for action-based solutions to a host of strategic issues. IMPRI is committed to democracy, mobilization and community building.

Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 Gramin – Policy Update 2021

On 2nd October 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission with the objective of "to accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put the focus on sanitation". Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) are two components of the Swachh Bharat Mission, focusing on rural and urban sanitation. Under Phase 1 of the mission, on 2 October 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, all villages, Gram Panchayats, Districts, States, and Union Territories in India had declared themselves "open-defecation free" (ODF) by constructing over 100 million toilets in rural India, costing close to Rs 1.3 Lakh Crore. 

Case for Price Insurance Policy in Indian Agriculture

A. Amarender Reddy There is a growing demand from a section of farmers’ organizations for guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP). The Central government has agreed to constitute a committee to consider the issue. Now the onus is on the committee…

Indian Disinvestment Path: Targets and Achievements

Swati Solanki After Independence, the public sector was considered the engine of growth in India’s growth story. As decades passed, the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) began facing infrastructural bottlenecks and other shortcomings. The utilization of resources became inefficient, and many…

India’s One Step Forward for Semiconductors

TK Arun The aim should be to develop indigenous semiconductor capability and that is not achieved by offering subsidies to incumbent chipmakers of the world. If Nehru had, instead of setting up India’s own space and atomic agencies, offered subsidies…

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