India’s informal sector remains a chronic conundrum for scholars and policymakers. It has been studied widely and deeply for decades but a clear under
Indian Railways is the 4th largest railway network in the world by size with 121,407 kilometres (75,439 mi) of total track over a 67,368 Km
The early years of the Indian republic saw an emphasis on nation building, accomplished through a top-down policy paradigm driven by the Centre and fl
Some sections of millennial India, not too familiar with the country’s recent past as a left-of-centre planned economy, see themselves as potential en
Success at Tamil Nadu’s elections has revolved around the politics of subsidies for decades. In this analysis, R. Srinivasan, argues that with
The full text of the annual Economic Survey 2017-18, in two volumes, can be accessed here:
As public sector banks fall short of meeting rural India's credit requirements, the money lender, often usurious, has re-emerged as a key financial pl
A committee appointed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to suggest measures to improved standards of corporate governance in lis
Dark clouds loom over the economy but, paradoxically, this is a result not of any policy paralysis but of hastily thought-out and implemented polic
The Second Volume of the Economics Survey (2016-17) was released on August 11, 2017. The 458-page Second Volume was tabled in Parliament six months af
The Central Statistical Origanisation (CSO), a division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Governemnt of India, periodically
The NITI Aayog has published a compilation of statistical data sourced from the States and Union Territories of India. The estimates are for the perio
The NITI Aayog has published the Appraisal Document of the Twelfth Five Year Plan at its website. The document holds out a caution that the &qu
The inaugural Annual Lecture organised by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy was delivered by P. Chidambaram, on March 13, 2017, at The M
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement demonetising high denomination notes on November 8, 2016, will do little to address the prime objective of
The government’s high profile war on black money has generated mixed responses. However, both supporters and opponents of the 2016 demonetisation agre
Budget making at the State level in India has undergone changes since the implementation of the fiscal responsibility legislation and the successive F
"Our agenda for the next year is, therefore, to ‘Transform India’ in this direction. My Budget proposals are, therefore, built on this transforma
"This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fear
Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is presented with a few challenges. Plan allocation is down and several centrally-sponsored s
The Minister for Railways, Suresh Prabhu, presented the Railway Budget for the year 2016-17. In his budget speech, Suresh Prabhu made the point
With Indian States reaching out for foreign direct investment, Tridivesh Singh Maini points out that though investors’ summits are important, States s
One of the key challenges for policy-makers lies in charting out measures to revive the Indian economy, which is buffeted by an unfavourable internati
A year after the Prime Minister announced demonetisation of high denomination currencies on live television, most of the initial fears have been prove
The National Statistical Office (NSO) in its 77th Round carried out a survey on “Land and Livestock Holdings of Households and Sit
In most developed countries, ports are managed by municipal or provincial governments, with the federal government overseeing only border control, com
The full text of the report, Energy Statistics India 2021, can be accessed here:
The White Paper on Tamil Nadu Government’s Finances, released by the Tamil Nadu Finance and Human Resources Management Minister, P.T.R. Palanivel Thia
For more than 100 days now India’s farmers have protested at the Shinghu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders outside the national capital, New Delhi. Earlier,
The Economic Survey 2020-21, was released on January 29, 2021. The E-book version and PDFs of the Two Volumes of the Economic Survey and the Statistic
The full text of the India Innovation Index 2020, published by the NITI Aayog, can be accessed here:
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued its updated operational guidelines for COVID-19 vaccines on December 28, 2020, which can be acc
Images of countless migrant workers either painfully trekking back to their villages of origin often with children in tow, or jostling for space in cr
Disasters are testing times for institutions and individuals, processes and procedures, and policies and their implementation mechanisms. When COVID-1
The National Statistical Office (NSO) brings out a survey, once every five years, on the distribution of consumption expenditure in the rural and urba
While the electoral victory of the National Democratic Alliance in 2019 can, in part, be attributed to its welfare schemes and their impact on sociall
Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has released the 20th Livestock Census report can be a
Energy Statistics 2019, an annual publication of the Central Statistics Office, which is "an integrated and updated database of reserves, installed ca
National Accounts Statistics (NAS), presents the estimates of macro-economic aggregates along with detailed disaggregated statements and institutiona
The Code on Wages, 2019, an Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to wages and bonus, which received Presidential assent on August 8, 2019, c
EnviStats India, Volume I (environment Statistics) and Volume-II (Environment Accounts) 2019, can be accessed here:
The Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (2016-18), the first ever nationally representative nutrition survey of children and adolescents in India,
Text of the M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Lecture, Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI), Bengaluru, September 15, 2019, delive
The Economics Survey 2018-19 was released on July 4, 2019. The Two Volumes of the Economic Survey can be accessed here:
The Fifteenth Finance Commission is up against unprecedented challenges. First, the Goods and Services Tax has introduced an element of uncertainty in
There is a proliferation of income support schemes on the Indian public policy landscape. Add to this two more by the principal national parties conte
The Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, Sudha Murty, is well-known for her work in the field of social welfare. She is a technocrat devoted
The evangelical zeal with which Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has sought to protect cows has caused an administrative crisis. Farmers,
As India gears up for another general election, the politics of poverty eradication has again gained centre-stage; and there has been a great deal of
The Union government’s rejection of the GDP back series prepared by a technical committee of the National Statistical Commission (NSC) earlier this ye
As farmers marched to Parliament House to demand a special session devoted to discussing their problems and to pass Bills related to legally guarantee
How has India been doing on the economic and social fronts? The picture that emerges—from casual empiricism as much as from careful analysis of facts
Yashwant Sinha, former Union Minister for Finance and Union Minister for External Affairs was a prominent member of Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Bhar
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes four years in office this month, it is becoming increasingly clear that his government has fallen short on t
"The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has released the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
V.S. Sambandan of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy critically assesses the implications of a recent debate, between distinguished econo
The Budget presented by the Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, on Feb. 28, 2015, makes a case for inclusive growth within the framework of "b
Full text of speech by Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Railways, introducing the Railway Budget for 2015-16 in Parliament on Feb. 26, 2015. [PDF 371 KB].
The Union Government on Feb. 24, 2015 accepted the recommendations of the Fourteenth Finance Commission. The Report can be accessed as a PDF document
