Ankit Anand (Student of AMPPP Class 2021) Deputy general manager – strategic initiatives and regulatory policy, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited   In most countries, the focus of major economic actors has generally been to increase the revenues and the profits, that would catalyse their long-term economic growth. The questions around efficiency have mostly been dealt [...]

Sridhar Kundu : Sr. Research Analyst, Bharti Institute of Public Policy I. Introduction Sugar is a daily consumable commodity in every household.  Demand for sugar comes from both domestic consumption and exports. In 2018-19, the total export earnings from sugar were INR10,000 crore for meeting the export demand of 4 million tonnes (Agriculture Statistics, 2019). [...]

उपेंद्र सिंह, कंसलटेंट, इंडिया डाटा पोर्टल बेहद पुराना जुमला है - भारत एक कृषि प्रधान देश है, एक जमाने में इस देश की 85 प्रतिशत आबादी गांवों मेँ निवास करती थी और भारत जैसे विशाल देश की अर्थव्यवस्था अधिकांशतः  इन गावों पर ही निर्भर थी। ग्राम वासियों की आजीविका खेती किसानी और गृह कुटीर उद्योगों [...]

Ankit Anand (Student of AMPPP Class 2021) Deputy general manager – strategic initiatives and regulatory policy, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited   Boris Yelstin once said, “We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.” These times during the Covid pandemic [...]

Neetu Kapasi (Student of AMPPP 2021 Class) Leading Policy Advocacy, Corporate Affairs, Stakeholder Relations for IKEA India.     Take time to upskill and bring spring into your career and life You may be a director, head of a department, CEO, CFO, police officer, government bureaucrat, team manager or co-worker in any company, institute or industry, immersed [...]

Sridhar Kundu : Sr. Research Analyst, Bharti Institute of Public Policy Context How sensitive are you about the poor in our country? Can you give up one meal in a week? If yes, you can help more than 100 million people stuck below poverty line to rise above it. As India aims to achieve the [...]

Neetu Kapasi - AMPPP Batch 2020-21 Why equality is important at home, workplace and society Women characterise roughly half of the world’s population but merely 26.5 per cent are part of the workforce globally, as per ILO World Employment Social Outlook Study, 2018. The situation in India is grim. The sharp reduction from 33.1 per [...]

                      On  November 5, 2020, Haryana Assembly passed the ’Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill’ that seeks to reserve 75 per cent of jobs in the private sector for its residents. With its adoption, Haryana has become the latest entrant to a new cult [...]

Business Insider published Mandar Kagade’s op-ed on "Why a sovereign bad bank is a bad idea" as part  of series on "Expectations from the Budget". Mandar is an  Analyst at  the Bharti Institute of Public Policy. DISCLAIMER : Any comments, speeches, articles, blogs, podcasts, videos/vlogs, opposite the editorial page/opinions andeditorials page (OP-ED), interview response etc. made by [...]