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How Indian states fare in ensuring access to socio-economic security, basic amenities and justice -Deepanshu Mohan, Richa Sekhani, Latika Sharma, Vanshika Mittal & Advaita Singh

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With the aim of understanding inequality from the lens of opportunities, a new index measures the disproportionality of access across the country.

The concept of equality of opportunity is rooted in the Rawlsian philosophical tradition, whereby people are expected to construct a society in a way that they would be happy for their position in society to be determined by a random draw. He argued that social positions should be formally open to all and that each person should have a fair chance of attaining them.

Over the years, with the development of the academic literature within inequality studies, there exist multiple interpretations of how “inequality of opportunity” may arise because of factors or circumstances that are beyond an individual’s control.

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