Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Tikender Panwar Except in a few, both urban and rural, elections to the local bodies passed off peacefully in Himachal Pradesh a few weeks ago. Municipal ward councilors were elected in the urban centers. Rural areas went through a three-tier…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob The decade of 2010 – 2020 could be considered as the ‘lost decade’. The uncertainties surrounding a possible change in government during the early years, the haphazard rollout of the demonetization exercise,…
Budget 2021 was riding on a wave of immense expectations, given that the Indian economy was battered to a record low due to structural and cyclical issues, compounded by the impact of the pandemic. To decode what the Budget carried…
Gurinder Kaur On February 15, 2021, a three-judge green bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde allowed the Himachal Pradesh government to clear 614 hectares of forest and move ahead with 138 currently existing infrastructure projects. Apart…
Tathagata Chatterji Coronavirus had badly impacted urban India, which accommodates one-third of its population and two-thirds of economic production. Metro cities, which are nerve centers of the economy and gateways to global trade, turned into pandemic epicenters. Millions of jobs…
Nyla Ali Khan Considering electoral processes in my state of adoption, Oklahoma, are healthier than they are in my state of origin, Jammu and Kashmir, I remind millennials to identify important issues to them as voters, so they are inspired…
Tikender Singh Panwar For the next five years, the road map for devolution of funds to the states recommended by the 15th Finance Commission (FC-XV) is ready. The commission had many meetings in the last few years, and last year…