This article examines the Village Defence Guards Scheme (VDGS) as a case study in community-based auxiliary security policy in a contested border region
Public examinations determine more than the test of academic capability. For millions of students, examinations determine access to higher education, government employment, and social mobility. Any kind of unfair practices in the public examination process therefore affects not only individual candidates but also public confidence in the state's mechanism.
Sexual Harassment at the workplace remains one of the most underreported and neglected dimensions of gender-based violence in India.
Bamboo is a special species in the Indian rural economy and the ecology. Bamboo is a tender healthy grass that grows rapidly and can provide both tensile strength and versatility and is both fast-growing and renewable, supporting livelihoods in agriculture, forestry, handicrafts and modern manufacturing, at the same time, and is called “green gold” or “green steel.”
Policy UpdateSneha Kohli Background National Suicide Prevention Strategy (NSPS) was launched by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in December 2022. The goal of the programme is to reduce suicide mortality by 10% by 2030. (Press Information Bureau [PIB],…
The department of Non Resident Keralites Affairs (NORKA) was established by the Government of Kerala on 6th December 1996 as India’s first dedicated state level institution to address the grievances, safeguard the rights and promote the welfare of Non Resident Keralites (NRKS) living or working outside the state, both within India and abroad.
India's demographic advantage is founded on the fact that it has one of the youngest and largest working-age populations in the world. However, a major portion of this population, especially women, do not participate in the workforce. Instead, they engage in unpaid domestic and caregiving work within the home. As per the Periodic Labor Force Survey 2023–24, 36.7% of the female workforce and 19.4% of the total workforce perform unpaid activities in the household sector.