Dr Purnima Chauhan, IAS (Retd), Former Secretary, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh & Director Himachal Pradesh Institute of Public Administration (HIPA)
Research Areas
Governance and Law, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Social Sector
Centres
Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) form the backbone of India's welfare and infrastructure delivery, jointly funded by the Centre and states but implemented through state-level agen
The Palna scheme was started by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on 1 April 2022. This is part of the Samarthya component of Mission Shakti. It replaced the National Cre
India’s rural development policy has gone through three main phases. The first, called “women's welfare,” saw women mostly as recipients of nutrition, health, and poverty rel
In the last thirty years, rural women’s development in India has gone through several stages. It began with welfare programs focused on nutrition, maternal health, and poverty re
Anil Trigunayat India hosted the Foreign Ministers of the BRICS countries in New Delhi in the backdrop of the US and Israeli war on Iran and its fallout to the Gulf countries. A
Policy UpdateAsmatwali Background The Chabahar Port project has, for over a decade, occupied a singular place in India’s foreign policy imagination: a deep-water gateway on I
Policy UpdateSruti Halder Background The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 established a time-bound framework for resolving corporate insolvency through the National Compa
Atharva Salunke India’s security environment has changed fundamentally over the last decade. Conventional military threats continue to exist, but they are now accompanied by
