public policy

Protests against the Ken-Betwa Link project have been going on for months, and here’s how women are leading the movement.

India's scholarship system fails students from marginalised backgrounds. Community-led models show what sustained, participatory support can look like.

An analysis of Union budget allocations across 16 ministries shows a lack of targeted schemes, funding, and coordination for heat response.

Community-based preparatory spaces are filling the gaps left by formal institutions for students from marginalised communities. Here’s how.

Growing populations of strays in Tripura pose health and safety risks for animals and humans alike. Animal welfare nonprofits working on rescue and rehabilitation are calling for better funding, support, and collaboration with local governments.

A street vendors’ association in Meghalaya urges the state government to include vendors in policy design, follow central law, and stop unlawful relocations.

Social sector spending drops to its lowest in a decade. Key schemes for housing, water, and minorities remain underutilised even as allocations shrink further.

Mission-mode programmes are celebrated for delivering immediate, tangible outputs at scale. But lasting social change depends on whether institutions, capacities, and accountability survive beyond the mission.

People's ability to use the RTI Act is often shaped by how state portals are designed, which can pose challenges including inaccessibility and incomplete information. Here are some tips for filing RTIs and the broad changes that are needed.

From livelihoods to ecosystems, commons sustain much more than we see. Here's what economic valuations can do for their protection.