The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has created global disruptions, with over 41 lakh lives being affected globally.

The Three Farm Bills: Indian Agriculture Watershed Moment?   Illiberal Agriculture Policies: Stagnating Incomes, Declining Growth   For long in India, the laws governing agriculture markets remains anarchic. The State has found reasons to overregulate the agriculture sector- regulating prices, banning exports, restricting private trade, regulating markets etc. Excessive regulations and lack of freedoms hampered […]

Executive Summary   The socio-economic crisis precipitated by the fallout of COVID19 pandemic and the intermittent lockdown undertaken to contain the spread of the virus has adversely impacted millions of households, especially the vulnerable and deprived households. It has pushed multiple such poor income households to further shocks of loss of income and livelihood. This […]

Food Security and PDS in Andhra Pradesh   –Kisslay Anand & Roshni Sekhar                            I.        Context   Covid-19 pandemic poses multiple challenges to countries across the globe; with cases as high as 44,43,793 over 188 countries/regions1, more than half of the world population is undergoing some form of social distancing. The clamping down of […]

MACRO POLICY IMPEDIMENTS FOR WOMEN CARE IN INDIA   By Devanshi Singh and Roshni Sekhar   Contents About the Report………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Critical Policy Gaps Governing Women Health in India…………………………………………. 5 Accreditation system………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Gender-Insensitive mental health services………………………………………………….. 5 Management of maternal health services……………………………………………………. 5 Convergence between schemes………………………………………………………………… 6 Lack of reliable estimates of […]

Introduction The brutal heatwave stretching across much of South Asia continues to persist into its third month. After suffering through the hottest March across India in 122 years, the northwest and central regions of the country saw the same record fall again in April. Then on 1 May, Nawabshah, Pakistan set the highest recorded temperature […]

The Impact of climate-smart investment and the creation of decent green jobs Executive Summary The range of sustainable initiatives providing benefits to the environment, national economies, and individual livelihoods is vast, covering solar-powered cold storage for small-holder farmers’ produce, the expansion of city-wide recycling programs, large-scale wind and hydro power infrastructure projects, and numerous other […]

Agriculture is the bedrock of the Indian economy primarily because of the source of livelihood for about 58 per cent of India’s population.

India, the seventh largest country in the world in terms of geographical area, is home to more than 1.21 billion 1people.

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, 2018 aims to amend section 7 of The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006.