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Getting Swachh Bharat statistics right: Moving sanitation outcomes from access to use will repres...

Getting Swachh Bharat statistics right: Moving sanitation outcomes from access to use will repres...

Declaration of India as an open-defecation free nation was based solely on access to toilets. The outcome mea…

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Beyond open defecation: Tackling solid waste management issues

Beyond open defecation: Tackling solid waste management issues

With SWM industry expected to double in five years and become worth Rs 9,800 crore, stock market seems to hav…

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Exploring the Association Between Women Empowerment and Sanitation in India - The Wire Science

Exploring the Association Between Women Empowerment and Sanitation in India - The Wire Science

Open defecation (OD) disproportionately affects women's safety and dignity in India. Inequitable gender norms…

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Swachh Bharat: Get sanitation mission right

Swachh Bharat: Get sanitation mission right

To make Swachh Bharat Mission II a meaningful effort, govt must budget for a survey on sanitation behaviour b…

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Series of Op-Eds Tackle Sanitation in India

Series of Op-Eds Tackle Sanitation in India

In a series of op-eds, Payal Seth, a consultant with the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition…

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As COVID-19 Raged, the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence Swept Across the Globe

As COVID-19 Raged, the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence Swept Across the Globe

Restrictions on mobility and loss of economic opportunities necessitated by the COVID-19 lockdowns have resul…

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Mobility story: how India's bottom 10% in 2011-12 moved up on household consumption

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By Ashish Kumar Verified, Payal Seth
| Mint
For years, India’s poverty debate has been stuck in familiar grooves: contests over the methodology for updation of poverty lines and extrapolations from outdated surveys. After 2011-12, the country had no official consumption survey to anchor our public debate. The release of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2023-24 finally broke that stalemate.
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Mobility story: how India's bottom 10% in 2011-12 moved up on household consumption

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By Ashish Kumar Verified, Payal Seth
| HT Syndication
New Delhi, June 24 -- For years, India's poverty debate has been stuck in familiar grooves: contests over the methodology for updation of poverty lines and extrapolations from outdated surveys. After 2011-12, the country had no official consumption survey to anchor our public debate. The release of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2023-24 finally broke that stalemate.
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Haryana with lower sex ratio records more girl adoptions then Kerala—what central data reveals

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By Payal Seth
| ThePrint Verified
CARA’s Identification Cell, whose mandate is to move children from institutional care into the legal adoption pool, brought 8,598 newly identified children into the system in this period. At the same time, 245 new CARA-registered adoption agencies were established across the country, expanding the institutional infrastructure that connects waiting families with available children. The open question is whether they will be sustained.
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