Tag: Public Policy
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The Policy Dialogue: Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies. Date: 21st August 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 has been hailed for its reformative approach to school and college education in…
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The Policy Dialogue: Social Security Policies for Migrant Labour in India
We are organizing a virtual policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Social Policies for Migrant Labour in India. Date: 30th May 2020. Timings: 5:00 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom As a fall out of the recent pandemic, the life of migrant laborers has become a daily challenge accompanied by constant…
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The Policy Dialogue: Animal Agriculture and Food Policies
We are organising a virtual policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Animal Agriculture and Food Policies in India. Date: 9th May, 2020. Timings: 3:00 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom Given the massive impact of the current pandemic and the role of zoonotic viruses that are possibly the outcome of our…
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Bride Trafficking: Policy Interventions for an Under-Reported Plague
Bride trafficking is the illegal industry of purchasing brides as a property for due consideration. Organized traffickers sell girls and women as brides who are conned into a life of abuse, exploitation and slavery. Be it Haryana, Assam or Rajasthan, the Indian “Bride Bazaar” predominantly flourishes in parts of the country where the sex ratio…
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Climate Change & Food Policies in the age of Social Media
If the current policies of India are to be critically examined, the response aims to focus on short-term and ad-hoc goals rather than long term sustainable solutions. Current social protection programmes are deemed expensive in nature and are based on a narrow understanding of people’s need. An important factor in the adaptation process…
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Draft National Education Policy: An Overhaul of the Indian Education System
There have been significant changes in the world and the country since the last time the education policy was modified. Hence a need was felt to do so now, such that the educational requirements of the present scenario could best be tackled. A committee was set up in June 2017 under the chairmanship of Dr.…
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Central Pollution Control Board: A story of wasted potential?
By Drashti Vadhel, Rizvi College of Engineering, Mumbai. Rapid industrialization in the country, coupled with an emphasis on the development of a “Modern India” has led to an increase in the amount of pollutants being generated everyday. The economic growth of India has come at the cost of deterioration of its environment. Be it in…
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Need for a new Environment Protection Legislation?
By Sarthak Kanoria, Christ Church College, Kanpur. Gandhi’s saying, “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” is highly relevant today, in comparison to the time when he said it. The progress made by India in the economic sphere is overshadowed by the deterioration in the quality of its environment.…
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The City of Imbalance: The Burden of Population and Ecological Crisis in Mumbai
Mumbai’s urban population is fast growing and problems of water availability, waste management and congestion are going to get more complex in future. Real estate development, Airport development project, Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, to name a few, are all meant to elevate the standard of life for an average citizen, however, their individual and collective…
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Civic Architects: The Policy Workshop
In our endeavour to unravel the complexity of Public Policy and expand the scope of public awareness and education in policy making, we are organising ‘Civic Architects’, a first of its kind Policy Workshop.