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April 6, 2025

Nutriful

In India, the rising burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has become a significant public health...

March 26, 2025

STATES OF VIKSIT BHARAT

A groundbreaking tool, the SKOCH State of Development Index, is redefining how we measure progress...

March 24, 2025

STATE OF GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION

DECADAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT DIGITAL INDIA AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS #1 ANDHRA PRADESH #2 GUJARAT #3 TELANGANA...

March 21, 2025

State of Governance Transformation in Indian States – 2014-2024

Background Nationalism dominates global trade and politics post-WTO, shifting focus to non-tariff barriers. However, this...

March 1, 2022

Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh

Post-liberalisation India has changed in multiple ways. These economic, social, and cultural transformations have had...

Inclusion

February 24, 2022

Asset Monetisation, Disinvestment, Privatisation: Three Keys to Up Spending on Infra, Health and Education

Ideas for Economic Revival The Indian Economy is moving forward to come out of the...

Inclusion

February 9, 2022

India Needs Spatially Dispersed, Job Generative and Equitable Growth – Recommend Economists

INDIA ECONOMIC FORUM & LITFest The Union Budget has arrived at a crucial moment in...

Inclusion

June 24, 2021

Preparing for the Third Wave

74th SKOCH SUMMIT, 3rd JULY 2021, 0915-1900 HRS ON ZOOM "Second wave of the pandemic...

Sameer Kochhar

May 5, 2021

Uttar Pradesh 2020: Policing & District Administration Fight Covid-19

Uttar Pradesh 2020 is a story similar to many other Indian states this past year....

Inclusion

February 23, 2021

Investment and Infrastructure

Background The Union Budget 2021-22 lays strong emphasis on capital expenditure and infrastructure creation. Capital...

T K Arun

December 14, 2020

Digital India: Transforming for the Win

When it comes to digital transformation, India has come a long way. Starting in late...

August 14, 2020

The Great Unprecedented Negative Fiscal

The country is going through the worst peacetime health and financial crisis of the last...

Bureau Report

May 22, 2020

Moratorium on term-loans addresses some felt-needs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das today announced several measures undertaken by...

Aakash Sharma

May 20, 2020

Atmanirbhar Lets Down MSMEs

The mood in MSMEs is grim. The Atmanirbhar Bharat package announcements have confirmed their worst...

Gursharan Dhanjal

April 24, 2020

MSMEs don’t have money to pay salaries; need emergency funds

Majority of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) don't have money to pay salaries...

Gyanendra Keshri

April 7, 2020

MSMEs need immediate capital support to tide over COVID crisis

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are amongst the worst hit because of COVID-19 pandemic...

Gyanendra Keshri

March 31, 2020

Integrate National Water Policy

‘Integrated National Water Policy’ that encompasses the rural as well as the urban areas then...

Inclusion

March 31, 2020

Digital Transformation of Defence

The government has taken major policy initiatives in the defence production to promote Make in...

Inclusion

March 31, 2020

Capturing Economic Value

The fact and most agree that the government has to play a significant role to...

Inclusion

March 4, 2020

What MSMEs Want More?

  Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are amongst the worst hit because of COVID-19...

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

Road to Recovery of Indian Economy

  The Indian economy is passing through a very challenging phase. GDP growth has dropped...

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

Recommendations

Sameer Kochhar | Recommendations Tax digital MNCs – software majors, social media, search engines etc...

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

Centre-State Relations Need Holistic Review

Roles and responsibilities of the Centre and the states have been listed in the seventh...

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

Verification Key to Welfare Schemes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured voter trust through his agenda of welfare programmes. Among...

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

How to End the Economic Slowdown?

This pain of adjustment is slowing down the economy. On completion of this adjustment, the...

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

Tax Reforms for $5 Trillion Economy

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was introduced in India with so much of fanfare....

Inclusion

December 16, 2019

Investments key to sustain high economic growth

Investment plays a critical role in sustaining high economic growth. Revival of investments is among the...

K V Subramanian

September 27, 2019

Nirmala’s Diwali

  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has brought in Diwali early for the economy by lowering...

Sameer Kochhar

September 25, 2019

Climate Change Challenges To India’s $5 Trillion Ambition

  Heavy monsoons this year claimed at least 300 lives in states of Kerala, Karnataka,...

Inclusion

September 25, 2019

Finding Investments for a $5 Trillion Economy

  Investment has become a buzzword. Right from Finance Minister’s Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech on...

Inclusion

September 25, 2019

Policymaking for a $5 trillion economy

  In the backdrop of falling automobile sales, manufacturing output dipping across various sectors and...

Inclusion

September 16, 2019

$5 Trillion Transformation

  Supporters as well as critics of ModiNomics agree that the target of $5 trillion...

Inclusion

September 16, 2019

Whose Data is it Anyway?

  All the legislation and debates around data in the recent years have centered around...

Inclusion

July 18, 2019

Financial Literacy Needs Regulatory Help

Unlike hunger, need for financial literacy is not self-evident. If it was, there would have been no...

Sameer Kochhar

July 18, 2019

Inclusive Growth Budget

  Given that Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden budget against the constraints of slowing growth, limited fiscal...

Sameer Kochhar

July 18, 2019

ModiNomics 2.0 Agenda

  Macroeconomic stability is a precondition for growth. While, the key macroeconomic indicators pose no...

Inclusion

July 18, 2019

Cybersecurity – Strategy, Protection and Awareness

  The global cybersecurity threat landscape today is scary. As a nation, we are losing...

Rajesh Pant

May 27, 2019

Financial Literacy Must For Defeating Poverty

  Modi Ji was speaking. “India is still a developing country and it is our...

Sameer Kochhar

May 9, 2019

Practising Patriotism

  It is often said that in India the average people’s love for the country is...

Inclusion

May 9, 2019

India Needs a Cyber Security Strategy: Cyber Patriots Task Force

  One doesn’t need to reiterate about the gigantic presence of the cyber phenomenon in...

Inclusion

May 9, 2019

Inclusion Manifesto

  Development has many dimensions. It has to be inclusive, it must be poverty reducing...

Gyanendra Keshri

May 9, 2019

Free Cash Transfer Shows Failure of Government Policy Reforms

  During this election all political parties have promised to dole out free cash. Narendra...

Ajay Vir Jakhar

May 9, 2019

PM-KISAN is the most inclusive scheme targeted at farmers, says CEO

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi government decision to provide Rs 6,000 annual income support to...

Vivek Aggarwal

May 9, 2019

Income Transfer Scheme

  In the Interim Budget for 2019-20 the government announced a scheme to provide income...

Inclusion

May 9, 2019

MP cuts Clean Energy Cost through Innovation

  Cost is a critical element in the growth of renewable energy. Currently, renewable energy...

Inclusion

May 9, 2019

Has Marginalisation become Aspirational?

  The focus of major mass protests and youth movements in the recent years has...

Inclusion

May 9, 2019

Economic Manifesto

  Economy is the engine behind India’s growth and it fuels the country’s path to...

Inclusion

October 1, 2018

Nitin Gadkari: The Infrastructure Man of India

  "American roads are good not because America is rich. America is rich because American...

Inclusion

October 1, 2018

Nitin Gadkari: The Infrastructure Man of India

  "American roads are good not because America is rich. America is rich because American...

Inclusion

October 1, 2018

Has Modi Government Kept Pace With The People’s Aspiration?

  When Modi took charge of the world’s largest democracy in May 2014 after leading...

Inclusion

October 1, 2018

Children Safety, Care Get Priority

  A transparent and accountable system is essential to ensure safety and wellbeing of orphan,...

Inclusion

October 1, 2018

Data Privacy, Localisation And Protection: Considered Decision Needed

  Recently, data privacy has become one of the most important topics in public discourse...

Inclusion

April 1, 2018

India has to Overcome Jobless Growth Challenge

India has to come to terms with jobless growth that has been chasing it ever...

Inclusion

April 1, 2018

Use Skill Programmes to Overcome Education Deficit

With a vast majority of the population not educated or at various stages of literacy,...

Inclusion

October 1, 2017

MUDRA Scheme: A Game Changer Initiative on Job Creation

HIGHLIGHTS Total number of jobs generated due to <10L MUDRA loans are 5,44,79,763. Sum total...

Inclusion

October 1, 2017

Towards Building a Naya Bharat

  Under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, we are seeing the concrete results of...

Narendra Singh Tomar

October 1, 2017

Has Rural India Seen a Turn-Around Lately?

  Positive and long-term improvements can be seen in foodgrains production, horticulture, dairy, poultry and...

N C Saxena

October 1, 2017

What Economists Do Not Get?

  Modi is often criticised for having a penchant for foreign visits consisting of more...

Inclusion

July 1, 2016

MUDRA: The Dark Horse of Modi Government

In 2006, I had identified Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) as the dark horse...

Sameer Kochhar

April 1, 2015

Digital Dilemma

  It was a prudent move for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revive the e-governance...

Gursharan Dhanjal

April 1, 2015

NIC Synching with Financial Inclusion Initiatives

  The Indian economy in general has made rapid strides in the recent past. However,...

Inclusion

April 1, 2014

Manifesto vs Manifesto Promises to Keep and Miles to Go

  As the countdown to the formation of the next government at the Centre starts,...

Inclusion

January 1, 2014

HP Open Ecosystem Breaking Barriers to Software Defined Networking

Amol Mitra, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and Japan, Hewlett-Packard Networking (left), explaining...

Inclusion

January 1, 2014

National Insurance E-Governance Initiatives

  The Government of India initiated a National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) with the intention of...

Deepak Sinha

July 1, 2013

What Went Wrong With The India Growth Story?

  In the past, India too chased that imaginary horizon, defined by socialism and central...

Inclusion

January 1, 2012

Riding High on The Digital Boom

  For a company that entered India only in 1997, Canon India is today eyeing...

Inclusion

October 1, 2011

Translate Growth into Poverty Reduction

A review of the Indian Economy in the recent period throws up several interesting insights....

C Rangarajan

July 1, 2011

Aadhaar Pied Piper of Technology is the Foundation Weak?

This is a journey that was begun in September last year from the little-known Tembhli...

Inclusion

July 1, 2011

Grassroots Inclusion Must for Inclusive Growth

Sam Pitroda Gandhiji was a great communicator and a great social activist, and one who...

Sam Pitroda

July 1, 2011

Income Inequality has Increased after 12 Years of Economic Reform

Rajesh Shukla, Director, NCAER-Center for Macro Consumer Research (NCAER-CMCR) Professor Amartya Sen’s stinging criticism of...

Rajesh Shukla

July 1, 2011

Re-Thinking the Role of the Government

One of the reasons that catapulted Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption crusade on mass conscience was governance...

Inclusion

July 1, 2011

Resourcing Indian Social Democracy

O P Bhatt, former Chairman, State Bank of India Whoever said budgets are a moral...

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

10 Ideas that Manmohan Singh could use to Change India

10 Ideas that can change the face of Governance in India Blend Grievance Redressal into...

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

Fueling the Power of Convergence

This convergence of new and existing technologies is creating new opportunities for the IT industry....

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

Financial Deepening and Equitable Growth: The Disappearing Mirage

  Access to finance at the grassroots level, particularly to the disadvantaged sections of society,...

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

Future of Markets Competition to Drive Regulation, Licensing

  Access to finance at the grassroots level, particularly to the disadvantaged sections of society,...

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

SKOCH Financial Inclusion Awards 2011

  For nearly a decade, Skoch Awards identify and salute best practices that others can...

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

Growth & Finance Charting the Way Forward

It is not often that the country’s leading economists and think tanks gather on a...

Inclusion

January 1, 2011

Project Prakash Light at the Start of the Tunnel

  It is not often that a municipal corporation, a software and hardware institution and...

Inclusion

July 1, 2010

Highlighting The Shadowed

G Srinivasan, CMD, United India Insurance Though banking institutions headed by the RBI have done...

Inclusion

July 1, 2010

For a Safer Smarter Future

Our cities still have masses complaining about the illstate of affairs. It takes a developed...

Inclusion

April 1, 2010

India on the Growth Turnpike

Shankar Acharya "By the end of the next decade we will be the world’s largest...

Inclusion

April 1, 2010

The Cloud Revolution

  It was in November last year that state-owned Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) joined...

Inclusion

January 1, 2010

State-of-the-Art Security

  The 2004 Olympic Games attracted world-wide attention and media coverage of an unprecedented level,...

January 1, 2010

Serving Nation and Society

  Once a small Nursing Home has now become "Surya Medical Hospital & Research Centre"....

Inclusion

January 1, 2010

Gujarat An Empowering Example

There are few states in India  that can claim to provide  almost round-the-clock power to...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Coordinated Response Key to Risk Mitigation

  Mumbai 26/11. A disaster, both in terms of the tragedy that unfolded and the...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Unemployability of the Employable

Job losses are a reality today around the world. India is no exception. Around half...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Towards a Knowledge Society

The National Knowledge Commission (NKC), constituted in June 2005, was entrusted with the task of...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

State of Higher Education

Recognising that India’s demographic profile, with 550 million below the age of 25, has the...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Saluting Best Practices, People & Institutions

  January 23, 2008: It was a day to remember - the highest independently instituted...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Power for All: The National Dream

  The National Electricity Policy envisages “Power for all by 2012” and per capita availability...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Incorporate the Employment Quotient in Education

  The demographic dividend that everyone sees India reaping in the coming days may well...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Directorate of Education, Delhi: Reforms Through ICT

School Reforms Through ICT   Providing quality education to children from Classes I to XII...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Project SEAM Upgrading Skills, Uplifting Lives

  With the Indian textiles and clothing industry expected to reach $85 billion by the...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Rural Litigation & Entitlement Kendra (RLEK)

Reaching The Unreached   Education is the foundation for sustainable development because it is critical...

Inclusion

April 1, 2009

Taking Healthcare to the People

Nalam Nagalaxmi, aged 19 years, discontinued her schooling after Class 9, having been continuously belittled...

Inclusion

January 1, 2009

Disaster Management – Inculcating a Culture of Preparedness

  A CCTV network across Mumbai with a coordinated crisis management cell during emergency, colour...

Inclusion

January 1, 2009

Hour of Governance Reforms

  The challenge is one of integrating performance management with the normal systems of accountability....

Inclusion

January 1, 2009

Window of Opportunity at Tineri

  Lower castes did not have any bank account in this village. But Punjab National...

Inclusion

October 1, 2008

Balancing interoperability with innovation

Participants at the ‘Roundtable on Interoperability and Innovation’, organised by Skoch Development Foundation in New...

October 1, 2008

Adopting a ‘Whole village Approach’

Radha Devi, of Malmatha village in Dungarpur district in Rajasthan is a busy woman. She...

Team Inclusion

October 1, 2008

Haryana School Education Board

Interactive portal eases students’ burden   Rajesh Kashyap, a student at the Government Model School...

Inclusion

October 1, 2008

Knowledge Gets Top Biling

  Knowledge gets top billing Security & Disaster Management The month of June saw knowledge...

Inclusion