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TopicCentre For Policy Research

Topic: Centre For Policy Research

Better data can improve public education in India – draft National Education Policy says it too

Kiran Bhatty -
The new draft education policy has called for ‘a major effort’ in data collection, analysis and organisation.

India can’t commit to climate change abroad and be non-compliant on environment at home

Manju Menon -
Government’s hurriedly thought out mechanisms have neither improved environmental performance of projects, nor reduced legal cases against polluting ones.

Modi govt electrified India with poles & wires, but challenge is to keep electrons flowing

Ashwini K. Swain -
A major barrier to electricity access in India remains the concurrence between economic poverty and energy poverty.

Modi’s India can compete & co-exist with Xi’s China. Negative foreign policy will only hurt

Zorawar Daulet Singh -
India and China are right in staying away from a Cold War-style competition in the subcontinent.

Indian states have fought over shared rivers for long. Modi must make them cooperate now

Srinivas Chokkakula -
The political process under Modi must redefine the Centre-state division of powers on rivers, or take up water agenda along the lines of GST reforms.

Patchwork laws can’t solve India’s water crisis, Modi govt must push these 2 key bills now

Philippe Cullet -
The water shortage in India needs to be addressed at all levels – ground and surface, state and Centre.

Modi govt must tackle air pollution by going beyond urban-centric tactics

Santosh Harish -
Air pollution is a public health emergency affecting all of India, not just Delhi and not just in winter.

Indian children are schooling, not learning. Modi govt must fix it with national edu policy

Yamini Aiyar -
Easy to measure metrics, ‘syllabus completion’ & ‘pass percentages’ have held classrooms hostage. Education policy has the power to change it.

India must shun Nehruvian metropolis bias & turn to small cities for urban economic growth

Mukta Naik -
India’s urban policy attributes the messiness to migrants, slums and poverty, and its preferred antidote is a Chandigarh-like order.

India’s problem is its policy to pamper China while treating weak Pak as full-blown threat

Bharat Karnad -
India needs disruptive foreign and security policies. Modi government’s most difficult decision will be to resume nuclear testing.
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