‘Affordable housing needs better processes’

Affordable housing allows people with low incomes to live decently and stay healthy. The idea has been moving along in ...

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Japanese billionaire speaks up for leprosy patients ?

Every year, on World Leprosy Day, Yohei Sasakawa makes a Global Appeal to end stigma and discrimination against people affected ...

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‘When you are in govt, you can’t afford to be defiant’

Governance in Delhi over the past three years has come to resemble the traffic on the capital’s roads — slow-moving ...

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‘Poor families need balanced home cooked food first’

In 1974, Dr Samir Chaudhuri, a paediatrician working in Kolkata’s slums, founded Child in Need Institute (CINI) to tackle the ...

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‘We are unusual as a university and attractive'

The Azim Premji University was founded five years ago to contribute to achieving a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. ...

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‘India is on the cusp of energy change’

Ajay Mathur took over as Director-General of TERI (The Energy Resources Institute) about a year ago. He came with a ...

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‘A lot of work is being done in govt schools’

Interest in government schools has been growing. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has sought to ensure that every child is in ...

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‘GEAC and Niti Aayog are wrong on GM mustard’

Differences are out in the open once again over genetically modified (GM) crops with the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) weighing ...

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‘NGO funding has been falling quite drastically’

The voluntary sector in India has been under regulatory pressure for one reason or the other. Thousands of organisations have ...

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‘From info to entitlement is a long journey’

The Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) has been delivering government entitlements efficiently to villages in 350 locations since the past one ...

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India can go electric by 2030, says Chetan Maini

Chetan Maini is the pioneer of the electric car in India. His Reva was an iconic, cutely designed four-seater packed ...

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‘India is 29 countries. We will be working with each state’

Close to three years after it came into existence, the Niti Aayog, whose mandate is to prepare a vision for ...

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‘We have raised crop output but not farm income’

THe rural sector faces multiple challenges ranging from environmental decline to lack of infrastructure and inadequate access to markets. Recent ...

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‘Disabled people now have jobs in best of companies’

A new law on the rights of people with disabilities was passed in the winter session of Parliament. It had ...

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Pvt hospitals: Why health can't be a business

Every now and then, tragic stories about the consequences of poor quality healthcare make news and come to public attention. ...

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‘Midday meals for children are a national investment’

Madhu Pandit Dasa oversees the world’s biggest midday meal programme. He is chairman of the Akshaya Patra Foundation. The figures ...

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‘Clothing isn’t even a topic in development’

Anshu Gupta won the Ramon Magsaysay Award this year for “transforming the culture of giving in India” and “treating cloth ...

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‘Upgrade regulators, design pragmatic contracts’

Economic growth needs to empower the poor for its impact to be lasting and meaningful. Infrastructure and financial inclusion are ...

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‘New politics has a long way to go in india’

Is politics in India getting cleaner and more accountable? Are more people in the middle class ready to stop shunning ...

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‘Note ban has put digital inclusion on fast forward’

With the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes the goal of rapidly converting India into a cashless economy ...

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‘The MFI sector has turned 360 degrees’

The microfinance industry has gone from virtual collapse after being accused of greed in Andhra Pradesh to a formal role ...

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‘Gurgaon can be a walkable, cyclable city one day’

Gurgaon’s rapid growth has come with wide roads, lots of cars, gated communities and shopping malls. It is the exact ...

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GRUH understands the small borrower

GRUH Finance has vast experience in giving housing loans to small borrowers in the unorganised sector. It is an aspect ...

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‘Let this be the last photo-op for drought’

Two headlines on water have competed for mind space. The first was on a train carrying water to Latur, which ...

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‘Govt has asked for advice on net neutrality’

Are net neutrality and discriminatory pricing of data on the Internet on their way back into the news? Last year, ...

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‘Urban heritage should have wide ownership’

As urbanisation spreads, how can heritage be saved? In the rushed transformation that Indian cities are undergoing can traditional homes, ...

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‘Big potential for Ayurveda as lifestyle illnesses rise’

As integrative healthcare grows in popularity, Himalaya enjoys many advantages that come from being an early mover in this space. ...

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‘Rohith’s case is not the first and it won’t be the last’

When Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD student at Hyderabad Central University, committed suicide on 17 January, it brought to the ...

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‘Online service delivery is a complete nightmare’

The government’s evaluation of schemes and services launched for the poor is far from satisfactory. Are people benefiting and if ...

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AAP dips toe in municipal waters

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is preparing itself to contest municipal elections. For a start, it is putting up candidates ...

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‘We have become guinea pigs for biometrics’

For the past decade state governments have launched a series of Internet-based initiatives to deliver services more efficiently. Technology has ...

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