Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Swati Solanki After Independence, the public sector was considered the engine of growth in India’s growth story. As decades passed, the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) began facing infrastructural bottlenecks and other shortcomings. The utilization of resources became inefficient, and many…
TK Arun The aim should be to develop indigenous semiconductor capability and that is not achieved by offering subsidies to incumbent chipmakers of the world. If Nehru had, instead of setting up India’s own space and atomic agencies, offered subsidies…
Tikender Singh Panwar “Sustainable tourism” is the theme for ‘World Mountain Day,’ observed across the world on December 11. The United Nations’ call for this year’s theme is quite apt. Though it also shows the limitation of understanding the mountains…
Arun Kumar There are many discussions going on regarding pollution. But the one aspect that is being overlooked in all these debates is our development model. It has a major contribution to increasing pollution. It considers material development as the…
Arun Kumar The demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, created a nightmare for citizens that lasted several months. Long queues formed outside the banks and ATMs to obtain swap denotified currency notes for new ones so that…
Smita M Patil This article discusses the differential treatment of two rape cases in terms of civil society’s outrage and the process followed in the aftermath by the police and the valid questions that need to be reiterated in the…
The Union Budget of 2018-19 proposed to treat school education holistically without segmenting pre-nursery to class 12. It was, post this announcement that the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education launched the integrated scheme for school education, Samagra Shiksha (National Educational Mission) in 2018. Samagra Shiksha is an overarching programme for the school education sector that extends from pre-school to class 12.