Supreme Court Panel on Prison reforms
The court had in September 2018 appointed the Justice Roy Committee to examine the various problems plaguing prisons, from overcrowding to lack of legal advice to convicts to issues of…
Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019
Context : Recently the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019, released by NGO Pratham. Key Findings of the Report ASER surveyors visited almost 37,000 children between 4 and 8 years…
Time to Care: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis
Context A report published by Oxfam, the international nonprofit focussed on the alleviation of global poverty, underlined what has been said repeatedly by governments, research organisations and a range of…
Status of Policing in India Report 2019
In a new report that looks at the working conditions of police in India, one key finding is about the political pressure perceived by police, and the extent to which…
How plastic pollutes, how much waste the states generate
Worldwide, 75 per cent of all plastic produced is waste, and 87 per cent of this is leaked into the environment. A study by the University of Newcastle, Australia, and…
India State of Forest Report (ISFR)
Context A quarter of India’s geographical area (24.49 per cent) is under forest and tree cover, according to data shared in Parliament by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate…
Tackling Maoists in Chhattisgarh, what challenges remain
What is the best way to fight IEDs, like the one used in Kurkheda or the one that blew up an MPV in Sukma in March 2018? One way to…
How Jammu and Kashmir fares in key indicators compared to the rest of India
As a new chapter opens in the history of Jammu and Kashmir with the state being split into two Union Territories, there have been discussions around how it has fared…
Article 370, bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir
By abrogating Article 370, bifurcating Jammu and Kashmir and downgrading the status of the successor units to Union Territories, the government has used the flexibility of the federal provisions of…
States are sovereign
What does ‘cooperative federalism’ mean? The phrase recognises and affirms that India is a federal State. There is a Central government and there are state governments. Each government has areas…
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