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High voter risk appetite behind Bengal, Tamil Nadu verdicts
The BJP win in West Bengal and TVK victory in Tamil Nadu reveal high voter risk appetite due to uncertainty over jobs, incomes. High voter risk appetite behind Bengal, Tamil Nadu verdicts: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide victory in West Bengal and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s breakthrough in Tamil Nadu seem, at first glance, to belong to different political stories. One is the rise of a national party in a state where it had never governed.
Do freebies still win elections? Lessons from Bihar and Delhi
Nevertheless, many of such targeted welfare measures did not appear to be electorally rewarding for AAP in Delhi. They promised Rs 2,100 per month to unemployed women and Rs 18,000 per month to Hindu and Sikh priests. Further, they promised financial assistance to Resident Welfare Associations and free healthcare for senior citizens.
Mixed progress: The overall recovery of loans of SHGs under DAY-NRLM is impressive - Telegraph India
Linking SHGs to economic value-generating enterprises and the market could help expanding the scope of financial inclusion and improving financial discipline, contributing to rural progress Indranil De Published 17.06.25, 07:32 AM Representational image Sourced by the Telegraph The department of expenditure, ministry of finance, has urged the ministry of rural development to merge the National Rural Livelihood Promotion Society, an autonomous body, with MoRD itself due to fund constraints.
Advanced Neuronal Modulation with Semiconducting Graphitic Carbon Nitride: Insights from In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Silico Studies
Biological and Medical Applications of Materials and InterfacesFebruary 4, 2025 Indranil De Chemical Biology Unit, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Knowledge City-Sector 81, Mohali 140306, India Abhinoy Kishore Chemical Biology Unit, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Knowledge City-Sector 81, Mohali 140306, India Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGCs), Sector 112, Landran, Kharar Banur Highway, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab 140307, India Subhabrata Das Quantum Materials &...
Indranil De
Professor and Axis Bank Chair, Social Sciences and Economics, Institute of Rural Management Anand
How the work that won the 2024 Economics Nobel is relevant for India
It explains why despite the regional abundance of natural resources, the inhabitants of many Indian states remain perpetually poor. If industrialisation is the major driver of economic growth, then areas that are in proximity to inputs of production, such as mines, should be the most prosperous. However, the evidences across states of India defeat this hypothesis.
Protests without a face
A leaderless movement may be successful in the short run. But the chances of it succeeding in bringing substantive reforms in the system in the long run are usually bleak Indranil De Published 02.10.24, 07:00 AM The massive protests by women and men on the nights of August 14 and 15 to protest against the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital through the ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement were unprecedented.
Focus on female employment to counter unemployment
The difficulty in getting jobs and inflation were the two major issues that played a role in the results of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, according to the Lokniti-CSDS pre-poll survey (The Hindu, April 11, 2024). The India Employment Report (IER) 2024, published by the Institute for Human Development and the International Labour Organization, also illustrated a rise in the unemployment rate from a little more than 2% in 2000 and 2012 to 5.8% in 2019.
The power of a vote: Is there a link between voter turnout and progress?
The voter turnout in Phase 1 of the 18th Lok Sabha Election was at 65.5 per cent, 4 per cent lower than that of 2019. In 2019, around 60 per cent of the constituencies had more than 65 per cent voter turnout. It ranged from 14.44 per cent in Srinagar to 90.78 per cent in Assam’s Dhubri. The soaring summer temperatures may have deterred people from going out to vote. But it may also be that the general electorate’s incentives to vote were not high. Are people unwilling to vote?
Turning the spotlight on the urban poor Original
The India Employment Report (IER) 2024 by the Institute for Human Development and International Labour Organization poses questions on the trickle-down effect of benefits to the working class in the backdrop of a 5.4% average real economic growth, from 2015-16 to 2022-23. It also shows a divergent trend between rural and urban areas in terms of employment and income. It demonstrates a relatively higher unemployment rate in urban areas, at 4.8% in 2000 over the 1.5% in rural areas.
A critical view of the ‘sanitation miracle’ in rural India Original
In the past decade, improving sanitation coverage has been one of the key public policy miracles in India. Access to water and sanitation is Goal 6 in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals envisaged by the United Nations. Public sanitation programmes have a long history in the country, beginning with the launch of the highly subsidised Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) in 1986.
Novel scheme: Spotlight on West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project - Telegraph India
Availability of water does not automatically lead to access. Farmers may struggle to get water even if it is available in a nearby river or underground. Lifting water using a tubewell or a dug well is costly for an individual farmer, especially for small and marginal farmers. Tubewells can be made economically viable through farmer collectives.
Reverse Trends of Globalisation
There is a marked shift in the global order; the US influence is on the ebb The global economy is shifting away from globalisation, which the United States has led since the Second World War, and toward protectionism. Through the Second Industrial Revolution, the USA's dominance in technology and the economy allowed them to control the world's order. The USSR, however, posed a formidable challenge to the USA.
Women’s Farm Employment, Decision-making and Sources of Irrigation : Insights from Uttar Pradesh
Notice: The EPW subscription facility will be offline for maintenance from 12pm IST, Sunday 10th March to 8am IST Monday 11th March. We apologize for any inconvenience. Insights from Uttar Pradesh Tags: Irrigation is one of the chief determinants of crop yields and sustainable agriculture. However, two surveys conducted among farmers and women in two regions of Uttar Pradesh highlight how irrigation sources impact women’s lives.
AAP’s ‘double-engine’ win in Delhi is no cause for celebration. TMC example shows why
The high-decibel elections for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ended with Aam Aadmi Party clinching the majority. With this victory, AAP ushers in a ‘double-engine’ government, currently the most enthusiastically promoted governance format. Not just Delhi, rule over two successive layers of administration by the same political party is valued by voters across India.
Advanced High Throughput e-Beam Inspection With DirectScan
Optical inspection cannot resolve critical defects at advanced nodes and cannot detect subsurface defects. Especially at 7nm and below, many yield and reliability killer defects are the result of interactions between lithography, etch, and fill. These defects often will have part per billion (PPB) level fail rates. Conventional eBeam tools lack the throughput to measure PPB level fail rates.
MSP guarantee is pro-small farmer
The announcement of abrogation of farm laws can only be the initial success of farmers’ collective actions. Most of the farmers are out of the ambit of these laws. The Shanta Kumar Committee report in 2015 estimated that only 6 per cent of the farmers could sell their produce through government agencies. Furthermore, the procurement is extremely unequal across States.
CoP26: The ‘net zero’ targets set by nations do not make them accountable if they fail to reach the target
CoP26: The ‘net zero’ targets set by nations do not make them accountable if they fail to reach the target | Published 29.11.21, 03:35 AM The success of CoP26 in Glasgow is difficult to ascertain. There were some positive moments: pledges of net-zero targets by countries, including India, the US-China agreement on emission cuts, and the declaration of phasing out of oil and gas production. But the conference did not engender the evolution of a strong climate governance.
Think anew
The pandemic experience reveals that employing unpaid family labour, especially women, in business, is necessary and can enhance welfare | Published 13.08.21, 02:07 AM The post-pandemic world would be different. The architecture of economic and social institutions should be commensurate with this new world. The hardest hit in the pandemic has been the poor.
Indian cooperatives need the Amul Model more than a Ministry of Cooperation
Representational image | Packets of Amul butter | Sanjit Das/Bloomberg Text Size: A new Ministry of Cooperation has been created by the Narendra Modi government to improve the ease of doing business for cooperatives and enable Multi-State Cooperative Societies to be more effective. MSCS are large cooperatives and hence aspire to operate in multiple states. But first, it is crucial to understand the root cause of the failures of cooperatives.
Why cooperative societies are languishing
The new Ministry of Cooperation is supposed to oversee the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies to regulate and control Multi-State Cooperative Societies (MSCSs). One of the basic principles of collective action is to let the people decide the rules of the game without being influenced or captured by third-party.
What Credit Flow Tell Us about the State of Self-Help Groups in Various States
In India, self-help groups (SHGs) are supported through easy access to credit under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), which has been a significant public intervention when it comes to poverty alleviation and the development of sustainable livelihoods. Launched in 2011, the number pertaining to SHGs and credit disbursement look pretty good. To date, around 77.9 lakh SHGs have been formed. Through bank linkages, around Rs 5.32 crore loans have been disbursed since 2013-14.
Troublesome copycats: Covid-inappropriate behaviour
The media producing greater evidence of people adhering to norms may be more effective in changing public behaviour | | Published 14.06.21, 01:05 AM There is no dearth of media coverage of inappropriate behaviour on the part of people in respect to Covid-19. But that has not stopped our blatant disregard for such norms as maintaining social distancing or wearing masks. This collective disregard for SOPs and guidelines is the root cause of the disaster.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: The need for public goods
The only way to make politicians deliver pure public goods is by raising awareness about the nature of their promises and their implications | | Published 05.04.21, 03:45 AM The Trinamul Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party have made their election manifestos public. The winner is supposed to deliver public goods, such as defence, primary education, health, poverty eradication, and so on. Only a government can provide public goods.
From West Bengal to Tamil Nadu, political competition is heating up. But no gain for voters
File photo of West Bengal CM Mamata Benerjee during a poll campaign | PTI Text Size: From Tamil Nadu to West Bengal to Assam, political competition is heating up as parties do their electoral math. While in Tamil Nadu, it’s the BJP-AIADMK coalition that will take on the Congress-DMK combine, West Bengal is witnessing a triangular contest between the TMC, the BJP and the Congress-Left Front-Indian Secular Front.
Garnering the Fiscal Stimulus : A Bargaining Game
Garnering the Fiscal Stimulus The share of resources distributed in the stimulus package to the farmers and labourers is very less as compared to other stakeholders of the economy. As public policy is influenced by bargaining power through intense lobbying, low distribution of resources towards farmers and labourers could be due to their low bargaining power. Collective action is required to bargain or lobby for resources.
Clash of objectives
Clash of objectives Monday, 09 November 2020 | Indranil de/ Sridhar Vishwanath Clash of objectives Monday, 09 November 2020 | Indranil de/ Sridhar Vishwanath While the private sector favours market orientation for procurement of commodities, the public sector supports inclusivity for farmers in meeting their livelihood needs The passage of the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020 by the Punjab...
Rich farmers dominate farm protests in India. It’s happening since Charan Singh days
Sri Muktsar Sahib: Leader of opposition AAP MLA Harpal Cheema, Rupinder Ruby and Baljinder Kaur, MLA's from Aam Aadmi Party join the protesting farmers against the proposed amendments in the marketing of farm produce at Badal village, in Shri Muktsar Sahib district, Thursday, Sept 17, 2020. (PTI Photo)(PTI17-09-2020_000279B) Text Size: The farmers’ agitation against the Narendra Modi government’s agriculture legislation is getting bigger with those protesting also receiving political backing.
The flaws of feedback
The flaws of feedback Monday, 21 September 2020 | Indranil De/ Sushanta Sarma The flaws of feedback Monday, 21 September 2020 | Indranil De/ Sushanta Sarma Competition in education and research brought through the evaluation system may drive all in the same direction at the cost of diversity Feedback is a very important tool to nudge people and organisations to adopt desirable behaviour.
Role of collective organisations during economic crises
The sharp downfall in the economic growth rate could be attributable to a lack of resilience of Indian economy. Only fiscal and monetary policies may not halt the downfall of the economy. Collective organisations, including NGOs, have played an important role in consumption and income-smoothing. The downfall could have been lesser had the market, the government and collective organisations worked together.
Prospect Theory Shows How Confusion During a Pandemic Is Bad for Health
Photo: Jon Tyson/Unsplash. Unscientific statements and irresponsible behaviour by influential people, including politicians, has often weakened our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is difficult to calculate the possible impact of irresponsible behaviour by influential people on the pandemic’s spread at this stage, but scientific experiments on human subjects suggest that the impact can be negative.
Covid-19 crisis: Urban centres need more relief
NGOs have to play a role in imparting skills for alternative occupations and linking local products to the national and global markets. By Indranil De, Mubashshir Iqbal & Rooba Hasan The daily spikes in Covid-19 cases in major cities, along with the virus spreading in smaller towns, raises questions regarding the prospects of urban dream of Indian middle-class. People have migrated from rural to urban areas, especially to metropolis, for a better future.
India’s ‘Unlock’ Strategy Should Focus On Developing Trust Between Citizens And Administration
As India opens its economy in a staggered manner, there are many challenges staring at it. The lockdown has had a huge impact on the livelihood of people, especially workers in the informal sector as a day of no work means no wages earned. These contract workers, in the absence of any work and a permanent job, either did not get paid or suffered wage cuts during lockdown. The organised sector has also borne the impact of the lockdown due to its reliance on contract workers.
It’s not that elementary
It’s not that elementary Friday, 03 July 2020 | Indranil De It’s not that elementary Friday, 03 July 2020 | Indranil De Not being able to establish the source of a disease is not surprising, especially in a country where people are divided by gender norms and socio-economic classes The recent revelation made through a research paper published by William Joe in the Journal of Global Health Science raises alerts about the deficiencies of tracing Coronavirus victims in a divided society.
SOP compliance is key
Now that the lockdown has been eased, we need to manage our actions in a manner in which we can balance economic activities and containment of the Coronavirus infection With the relaxation of the lockdown in non-containment zones, the spike in the number of Coronavirus cases is setting new records daily. India has reached the 3,33,255-mark and the country now has the dubious distinction of ranking fourth in the world.
COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Distancing: Key Challenges and Solutions for (...)
Home > 2020 > COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Distancing: Key Challenges and Solutions for (...) by Indranil De and Sanjib Pohit India is in the process of opening up after imposing one of the longest and tightest lockdown in the world. The general consensus is that the restrictions on movement would be relaxed in a staggered manner.
Pandemic likely to reverse women’s empowerment gains made in rural India
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought women’s plight to the forefront. A few studies have already evinced extra work burden and domestic violence during the period of lockdown. The University of Valencia, the French government and DIW from Germany find that women are bearing considerably higher amount of work burden than men, especially due to home schooling of kids (The Guardian, May 29, 2020).
The Political Economy of Formal-informal Dichotomy and Post-coronavirus (...)
Home > 2020 > The Political Economy of Formal-informal Dichotomy and Post-coronavirus (...) by Indranil De The policy and planning in post-colonial countries have always been biased towards the urban elites (Chaplin, 2011). It is very much evident from the division of urban areas between well-served and unserved areas . The well served areas emerged as formal areas of residence and unserved areas as informal areas or slums.
COVID-19: How will political economy of formal-informal sector play out
Economy While the cost of lockdown was borne by population ignored by bureaucracy, benefits were incurred by a small influential group Policies and planning in post-colonial countries have always been biased towards the urban elite — it is evident from the division of urban areas between well-served and unserved areas. While the well-served areas emerged as formal areas of residence, unserved areas came out as informal areas or slums.
Sanitation and User Charges in Indian Slums : Who Pays and How Does It Matter?
You are here Home » Journal » Vol. 55, Issue No. 5, 01 Feb, 2020 » Sanitation and User Charges in Indian Slums Who Pays and How Does It Matter? BibtexEndnoteRISGoogle Scholar Sanitation and User Charges in Indian Slums Despite the efforts of successive governments, sanitation coverage remains low in India.
Work Conditions and Employment for Women in Slums : A Case Study of Bhuj City, Kutch
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