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Need for Democratic and Empowered City Governments

Tikender Singh Panwar The general approach towards urban empowerment, including financial capabilities, has remained piecemeal in India The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a report, “State Finances, Study of Budgets of 2021-22”, released in November 2021, wrote: “With the…

Unfulfilled Promises of President Joe Biden

Chintamani Mahapatra At the time of the 2020 election campaigns as well as in his inaugural speech, Biden made several promises to the American electorate, but most of them have remained unfulfilled. He vowed to reunite the country that was…

Deepening Ties Between India and Central Asia

Anil Trigunayat On January 27, PM Modi will be virtually hosting the leaders from Central Asian countries (CARs) in a first-ever Summit as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. C5 constitutes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,…

POSHAN Abhiyaan, 2018-Policy Update 2021

Anondeeta Chakraborty The idea behind materializing the Poshan Abhiyaan lies in the NITI Aayog’s report on National Nutrition Strategy published in September 2017. The report has been beneficial in showcasing a minute analysis of the problems related to nutritional intake…

Unemployment and Economic Growth Rates

Santosh Mehrotra In 1955, the share of the population below the poverty line (NSS 1955) in Uttar Pradesh was 64%, not too different from that in the Madras State (present-day Tamil Nadu), at 73.6%, or in West Bengal, at 53.6%.…

Farmer Friendly Proposals in the Union Budget 2022-23

A. Amarender Reddy THE upcoming Union Budget offers a good opportunity to build trust between the government and the farmers. Many farmers are facing three age-old problems — low prices, low yields, and low income. Successive governments are trying to…

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