Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Dr Arjun Kumar India is urbanising at a fast pace and is expected to house half of its population in urban areas by 2040. However, the increasing pace of urbanisation hasn’t been met by comparable planning,…
Utpal K De and Simi Mehta The COVID-19 pandemic has added fuel to the fire in an era of global economic downturn and political unrest. Incontestably, the less developed nations are hit harder than their counterparts. Pandemic had led to…
Utpal K De and Simi Mehta Financial Inclusion has been recently acknowledged as a key enabler for reducing poverty and improving prosperity. However, more than 50% adults of the poorest households are still unbanked globally. The Bangladesh government continues to…
Dr M Ramachandran After the central government and state governments, the next level closer to people is the urban local body or village panchayat who are being constitutionally recognized under the 74th Constitution amendment of 1992, even though we had…
Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Dr Arjun Kumar “A very significant question faced by the urban planners and policymakers in the contemporary context is how to balance the twin objectives of optimizing economic growth and equipping the cities with physical and…
Zakia Soman “Patriarchy is a malaise that women and men have suffered since ages, sometimes knowingly and most times, unknowingly. It has been inflicted upon humankind from early barring the pre agriculture period of matrilineal social system. Patriarchy is a…
Arjun Kumar Reforms in the administrative apparatus of India has been a long-sought-after demand. Efforts were made by setting up the First Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC-I) in 1966 and then the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC-II) in 2005. Both the…