Category Center for Work and Welfare

Community Childcare and Women’s Workforce Participation: The Palna Scheme under Mission Shakti (2022-2025)

Policy Update, Center for Work and Welfare, Insights, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being

Affordable childcare is increasingly recognised as a prerequisite for women's economic empowerment and higher female labour force participation.

IMPRI Desk
July 20, 2026

iGOT Karmayogi: Digital Capacity Building for Civil Servants and Its Future

Policy Update, Center for Work and Welfare, Economy and Infrastructure, Governance and Law, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

India’s civil services are a key aspect of its public administration and serve as its backbone, which helps in executing planned policies into real-life actions.

IMPRI Desk
July 18, 2026

Rural Women’s Property Revolution : NHFS-6 on Women Property Ownership

Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, Insights, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Policy Update, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Mansi Tirthani Background In India property ownership is one of the most significant pillars of socio-economic empowerment but for an individual Indian woman it is a source of her dignity, financial security and to gain gender equality in the society.…

IMPRI Desk
July 11, 2026

The Trilemma of Direct Benefit Transfers and Welfare Fiscal Policies on Governments During Inflation

Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Center for Work and Welfare, Economy and Infrastructure, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, Insights, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Policy Update, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Mansi Tirthani Background Over the past decade, India’s welfare mechanism at macro economic level, has transitioned from indirect, leaky based subsidies into a more direct and digitized version focusing on asset and cash distribution networks. Based on the already existing…

IMPRI Desk
July 11, 2026

The Gendered Cost of Depreciating Rupee

Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Center for Work and Welfare, Economy and Infrastructure, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Insights, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Policy Update

Mansi Tirthani Background Indian rupee is under global pressure hitting historic lows to ₹95 per dollar. This macro volatility ceases to be a mere statistic but in reality it transforms into a structural crisis that impacts women differently. Macroeconomic shocks…

IMPRI Desk
July 11, 2026

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Mission Indradhanush: India’s Universal Immunisation Drive

Center for Work and Welfare, Insights, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Policy Update

India, for a long time, has been facing a serious problem: children dying and suffering from diseases that could have easily been prevented by vaccines.

IMPRI Desk
July 11, 2026

VB-G RAM G and Rural Employment: A Shift from Rights-Based Welfare to Mission-Based Development?