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Issue Brief No.12

Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates

S. Subramanian

Policy making, to be effective, requires assessments of magnitudes and trends of major events based on evidence.  One of the objectives of government policy interventions is—or should be—to pick up and stem slides in standards of living when they occur.   For a stubbornly poverty-stricken country ...
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Issue Brief No.11

Cooperatives Need a Regenerative Movement More than a New Ministry

H.S. Shylendra

In the space of two weeks in July, two decisions resurrected the policy focus on cooperatives in India.  The first, by the executive, was to constitute an independent Union Ministry of Cooperation (MoC). The second, by the judiciary, was a verdict of the Supreme Court of India de ...
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Issue Brief No.10

Uniform Civil Code: The Importance of an Inclusive and Voluntary Approach

C.K. Mathew

The call for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has long featured on the agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and found mention in its manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The issue is not new either for the BJP or for Indian politics: it has been at the centre – and sidelines – of political ...
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Issue Brief No.9

Governance by Fear in Tamil Nadu: A Template from Thoothukudi

M.G. Devasahayam

Thoothukudi, in southern Tamil Nadu, found its place in recorded history preceding even that of the State’s capital, Chennai. Famed as one among the world’s ancient seaports documented by the likes of Ptolemy, it is now in the news for all that can go wrong in the dynamic interplay of the state a ...
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 8

Simultaneous Elections: Striking at the Roots of Parliamentary Democracy

Jagdeep S. Chhokar

It has become an article of faith with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that elections must be held concurrently to the Lok Sabha and the State assemblies – ostensibly to achieve the twin-objectives of minimising the expenses involved and eliminating the disruption caused to governance and developmen ...
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 7

Public Health in India: Gaps in Intent, Policy, and Practice

Pallavi Mishra, Ankit Agarwal

This Issue Brief is an attempt to understand the challenges before the health system in India and why these challenges persist. The year 2016 and 2017 in particular witnessed a series of tragedies so horrendous and widespread that they brought to light the deplorable state of the public health sy ...
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 6

Banning Cow Slaughter by Stealth

Manuraj Shunmugasundaram

The contentious issue of cow slaughter has been revived with the notification of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules 2017(the Rules) by the Union Government. When cow slaughter was first raised in the Constituent Assembly of India, there was a move to plac ...
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 5

Formalising Finance, Informalising Labour: Demonetisation and the Informal Economy

M. Vijayabaskar

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi's announcement over television on the night of November 8, 2016, withdrawing from circulation currency notes with denominations of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000, has had a cascading effect on the economy.  This Issue Brief maps the pathways through which d ...
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 4

Drought Relief: Harnessing Native Genius for Water Storage

Nitya Jacob

Droughts draw attention to failure of government supply programmes. With each passing year the severity of the water crisis worsens. At fault is an engineering-heavy, centralised approach that ignores a basic fact about water – its use is distributed across diverse terrain and so it makes sense for the resource to be conserved locally. Large schemes channelling water over long distances are expensive, wasteful and lead to conflicts. This Issue Brief explores alternatives that rely on government or NGO interventions to augment local water resources. A key outcome of involving people in finding community-based solutions is that overtime they gain the confidence and expertise to manage their water resources. The Issue Brief argues for a paradigm shift in water management away from the large to the small that can be owned and managed by the people who use the water. It draws from successful examples of Indian local initiatives in water management in Kerala, pre-bifurcation Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan. Such models, the author says, could be scaled up rapidly with local adaptations, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, with specific roles for governments, civil society, and industry....
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 3

Droughts, Famines, and Scarcities: Time for a Proactive State Mechanism

Harsh Mander

In the summer of 2016, at least a third of India’s rural residents are battling drought, often for the third consecutive year. Where rains have failed, farmers who depend mainly on rainwater to irrigate their crops – the large majority - have no yields or very low yields. Those who rely on irrigation are scarcely better off, with groundwater sinking and streams and reservoirs drying up. The extent of the crisis is compounded by chronic agrarian distress reflected in a massive slowdown in agricultural growth to as low as 0.2 per cent in 2014-15, with no imminent signs of recovery. In this Issue Brief, Harsh Mander, a former officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), civil rights activist, and author of books on public policy, traces the evolution of state responses to famines in India. The first four decades after Independence saw the gradual expansion and democratisation of state obligations and responses to droughts and scarcities. Though public policy traversed in more progressive directions of protecting people from desperate want created by drought and food scarcities, paradoxically many unacceptable elements of public policy and practice continued to be carried over from colonial times. Post-liberalisation, the Indian state has gradually changed course and become entirely unconscionable towards its poorer and distressed citizens, in some instances more so than the colonial rulers.The way forward is to create a more proactive state that recalibrates its warning systems and a well-geared administrative machinery that can reach out to those in distress....
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ISSUE BRIEF No. 2

Telangana - Dealing with the Costs of Division: A Dialogue Towards Reconciliation

On September 21st, 2013, The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy organised a consultation in Hyderabad, "Dealing with the Costs of Division: A Dialogue Towards Reconciliation," to discuss differing viewpoints pertaining to issues thrown up by the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and the impending creation of the new State, Telangana. The dialogue was an attempt to bring to the table different sides of the Telangana Statehood issue, in the wake of large-scale protests that had shaken Andhra Pradesh following the announcement regarding the creation of the State. Leading political leaders, academics and administrators participated in the dialogue....
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ISSUE BRIEF

Twisted Willow: Gambling, Sport & Cricket in India

Rajgopal Saikumar, Harsimran Kalra, Abhishek Mukherjee

In the context of the raging controversy over the Indian Premier League betting and match-fixing episodes, there has been considerable public concern over the issues involved. This Issue Brief analyses the core issues that need to be clarified in order to understand how to handle gambling in sport in India. The Brief looks at the philosophical underpinning in India and also traces the ineffectiveness of sports regulation in India thus far....
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Policy Report

Farmer Producer Companies: Preliminary Studies on Efficiency and Equity from Maharashtra

Bridging Multiple Gaps: Strengthening India’s Research Protocols for Assistive Aids

The Phenomenon of Political Dynasties Among the Muslim Legislators of Uttar Pradesh

‘Nobody's Children, Owners of Nothing’: Analysing the Indian State’s Policy Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Living with Pain: Women’s Everyday Lives and Health in Rural Bihar

The Politics and Governance of Social Policies in Delhi: Comparing Cash and In-kind Transfers

Enabling Social Accountability: The Community Health Worker Programmes of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand

At the City’s Margins: Coal, Land and Livelihoods in Chennai

Rural India on the National Optic Fibre Network: What Happens Next?

Modern Day Slavery: A Study of Tribals and Dalits as Bonded Labour in Brick Kilns

Issue Brief

Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates

Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates

Cooperatives Need a Regenerative Movement More than a New Ministry

Cooperatives Need a Regenerative Movement More than a New Ministry

Uniform Civil Code: The Importance of an Inclusive and Voluntary Approach

Uniform Civil Code: The Importance of an Inclusive and Voluntary Approach

Governance by Fear in Tamil Nadu: A Template from Thoothukudi

Simultaneous Elections: Striking at the Roots of Parliamentary Democracy

Public Health in India: Gaps in Intent, Policy, and Practice

Banning Cow Slaughter by Stealth

Background Notes

Public Policy and the Child in Tamil Nadu

Demonetisation and Black Money

Cinema and the Voter

Union Budget 2017: A Panel Discussion

How India’s Economy Changed Track: A Retrospective of Politics and Public Policy

The Politics of Welfare in Tamil Nadu

Free Speech and Sedition in a Democracy

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