Policy Update Deepankshi Agnihotry Introduction India is rapidly urbanizing. From 2011 till 2025, the urban population has been growing significantly: from about 377 million people (31.16%) counted in 2011, it is predicted there will be about 542.7 billion people, or…
As India marches toward being a $5 trillion economy, PMGSY remains an important tool for inclusive growth. The scheme is a model of how focused development of infrastructure can spur multidimensional development results in rural India.
Female genealogy means to explore, accept and imply the histories of women's relationships, love and bonding and supportive nature. Luce Irigaray uses the term ‘original matricide’, in her essay Body against Body that curtail the significance of mothers. Mothers play a vital role in creating a sexual identity.
Gender-based Violence is a global health concern that affects most age groups across the globe. A significantly vulnerable section of population being both victims and potential changemakers for the same is the Adolescent population.
National Safe Motherhood Day must, therefore, be more than a symbolic gesture. It must act as a catalyst for deeper reforms, pushing for improved last-mile delivery of services, cultural sensitization, and robust monitoring of maternal health schemes.
Harsh V Pant & Kalpit A Mankikar This year marks the 75th anniversary of India and China establishing diplomatic relations. While India was the first non-socialist nation to recognise China, the relationship has been marred by several ups and downs. The unsettled…
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U) is a flagship Mission of the Government of India implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched the scheme on 25th June 2015, while presenting The Budget 2014-15, announcing the set up of a Mission on low-cost affordable housing to be anchored by the National Housing Bank (NHB). The Mission tried to address the urban housing shortage among the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Low-Income Groups (LIG) including the slum dwellers by ensuring a pucca house to all eligible urban households by the year 2022 when the Nation completes 75 years of its Independence.