-Newsclick.in SPIR 2019 notes that representation of women in the Indian police continues to be very poor, at just 7.28%. One in four male police personnel is highly biased against women in police, according to the Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2019. The report is based on surveys conducted by Common Cause, Tata Trusts, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and Lokniti, and was published on August 27,...

-Macroscan.org/ The Hindu Business Line The Goods and Services Tax regime appears to have reduced the resource generating capacity of the states and contributed to worsening inter-state Inequality. Please click here to read the entire article. ...

-The Telegraph "The government has miserably failed to stimulate the domestic economy. It has spent less and less on public education, healthcare and infrastructure because of its erroneous policy" The Modi government has an ambitious plan to create a $5-trillion economy in the next five years — but all data points are heavily stacked against it. The economy is floundering and the Reserve Bank of India has already trimmed its growth forecast...

-Hindustan Times A thumb rule for any public policy in Delhi, given the current levels of pollution, should be that the policy at least has a neutral effect on emissions. This means that if it can’t reduce emissions, it should at least not increase them. New Delhi: Government subsidies are often dubbed as inefficient for an economy. While some subsidies may indeed do more harm than good, to argue that all...

-Livemint.com A fiscal stimulus that comes from the poorest states of the country will enable them to raise capex spending, boost growth and catch up with the others On many development parameters, India appears to be almost like a continent, with different states at vastly different stages of development. Underlying such stark differences are differences in the levels of per capita incomes, and such differences have risen sharply over the past...