Category Panel Discussion

Breathing Movement and Words: Rethinking Trauma-Informed SEL and CSE for Our Girls

Insights, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, IMPRI Research, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Panel Discussion, Policy Update, Programs, Projects, Reports, Research, Social Sector, Working Papers

In India’s secondary schools, discussions about mental health, violence, or sexuality are often minimal due to stigma, despite high need. Urban adolescent girls from low-income communities frequently encounter traumatic experiences – a national study by the Ministry of Women and Child Development found that 2 out of 3 children had faced physical abuse and half of all children had suffered sexual or emotional abuse

IMPRI Desk
October 22, 2025

Whose Bodies, Whose Choices? Postpartum Contraceptive Coercion and the Regulation of Marginalized Women’s Fertility in India

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, IMPRI Research, Panel Discussion, Reports, Research

A woman who had recently given birth to her first child at a government hospital in Delhi was distraught to discover that she had been fitted with an IUD without her knowledge and prior consent. Her appeals for help to ease her discomfort and pain as a result of the insertion of the device were disparaged, and she was asked to seek further treatment at a private facility.

IMPRI Desk
October 8, 2025

India-UK Trade Deal 2025: Historic Agreement After 3 Years of Talks

Insights, Economy and Infrastructure, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Panel Discussion

On July 24, India and the UK signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), officially referred to as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), wrapping up over three years of negotiations and fourteen rounds that began at the start of 2022. After several British Prime Ministers and missed deadlines, the agreement, which was concluded in May this year, has finally come to see the light of day.

IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
August 12, 2025

Free Coaching for SCs, OBCs, and beneficiaries of the PM CARES Children Scheme

Insights, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, In News, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Panel Discussion, Policy Update, Programs, Projects, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Social Sector, South Asia Studies Center

The Free Coaching for SCs, OBCs, and beneficiaries of the PM CARES Children Scheme is an initiative taken by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. The scheme aims to provide high-quality coaching to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and beneficiaries of the PM CARES Children scheme, who were included from 2024-25. These groups often face systemic inequalities and exclusion that hinder their access to educational resources.

IMPRI Desk
August 11, 2025

SOAR: Skilling for AI Readiness

Insights, Center for ICT for Development, IMPRI Research, In News, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Panel Discussion, Policy Briefs, Policy Update, Programs, Projects, Science and Technology, South Asia Studies Center

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly increasing in the everyday life of humans. As the global demand for AI-related skills is rising, SOAR aims to create a future-ready generation equipped with technical knowledge and ethical and societal understanding required to navigate AI-driven transformation. This programme is part of a larger mission under Skill India, celebrating its 10th anniversary alongside the launch. The world is witnessing the revolution led by technological advancement, machine learning, AI, data analytics and automation. Unfortunately, Access to AI education in India has remained limited to higher education and elite institutions. The SOAR Programme breaks the barrier by introducing these subjects to classes of 6 to 12, including less resourceful schools, and by ensuring teachers are trained to deliver the subject. It aspires to build the largest AI-ready school population in the world, as declared by the Union Minister, Jayant Chaudhary.

IMPRI Desk
August 11, 2025

Digitizing Informality: A Policy Update on the e-Shram Portal, 2021

Insights, Center for ICT for Development, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, In News, Panel Discussion, Policy Briefs, Policy Update, Research

According to the ILO (2020), around 90 percent of India’s workforce is engaged in the unorganized sector, which absorbs most of the internal migrants.
The 2011 Census enumerated 450 million internal migrants, and this is estimated to increase to 600 million by 2021. Therefore, creating a comprehensive, accurate, and accessible database was the need of the hour. In May 2021, the Supreme Court directed the Union government to build a national database of unorganized workers.

IMPRI Desk
August 10, 2025

India-Sri Lanka Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) 2024: Strengthening Economic and Strategic Partnership

Insights, Commentary, In News, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Panel Discussion, Policy Briefs, Policy Update, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, South Asia Studies Center

The EPA signed in 2024 emerged from the context not merely as a recovery mechanism for Sri Lanka, but as a test case for India’s evolving regional economic diplomacy. As someone seeking to understand how bilateral cooperation is shaped by mutual dependency, geopolitical calculations and economic leverage. This agreement offers a timely lens in which to explore the political economy of regional integration. Hence, this article attempts to examine the EPA not just as a policy document, but as a strategic narrative. Critics question whether it reflects a shift toward mutualism or masks deeper asymmetries beneath an ambitious framework.

IMPRI Desk
August 4, 2025