Category Center for Human Dignity and Development

Demonetisation

Another Policy, Same Mistake: The GST Rate Cut Echoes Demonetisation’s Flaws

The demand will shift further from the unorganised to the organised sector. This, will accelerate the decline of the unorganised sector leading to loss of employment and incomes and decline in demand.

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Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKK) – Model Training Centres (2025)

India is undergoing a unique demographic phase, with over half of its population under the age of 25 and a continuously growing workforce. This presents both an opportunity and a challenge: to transform this human resource base into a skilled and productive force that can drive economic growth.

India-Qatar

India-Qatar: Maritime Energy Security Dialogue

India and Qatar share a deep energy partnership, with Qatar being a key supplier of liquified natural gas (LNG) to meet India’s growing demand. As energy trade relies heavily on secure maritime routes, rising geopolitical tensions in the Gulf and threats to sea lanes have made security a shared priority. To address these challenges, the India-Qatar Maritime Energy Security Dialogue has been launched to strengthen cooperation in safeguarding energy flows, enhancing naval cooperation, and building resilient supply chains. This policy update briefly examines the partnership’s significance and outlines ways to deepen collaboration for regional stability and energy security.

Complicity

The Saudi-Pakistan Pact and the Question of U.S. Complicity

The direct fallout of the Israeli strikes on Qatar to eliminate Hamas leaders and negotiators for Gaza and the US deep state’s complicity and political leadership’s double-speak and tongue-in-cheek stance has reinforced the utter unreliability of the US security cover once again for the countries in West Asia and North Africa, especially the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

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Sign Language Accessibility for e-Governance Services, 2025

Digital governance in India has grown rapidly under the Digital India programme launched in 2015, which aimed to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. A key component of this transformation is inclusivity, ensuring that every citizen can access public services without barriers.

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Whose Bodies, Whose Choices? Postpartum Contraceptive Coercion and the Regulation of Marginalized Women’s Fertility in India

A woman who had recently given birth to her first child at a government hospital in Delhi was distraught to discover that she had been fitted with an IUD without her knowledge and prior consent. Her appeals for help to ease her discomfort and pain as a result of the insertion of the device were disparaged, and she was asked to seek further treatment at a private facility.

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