The government’s fertiliser subsidy crowds out private investment in the sector, is a disincentive for production efficiency ...

Radha Malani is a Research Analyst in the Fiscal Governance & Architecture Team at the Centre for Social & Economic Progress.

India produces about 72 billion litres of sewage per day but has the capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats ...

A quarter century since the first public smoking bans came into place, smoking still leads to about 1 million deaths every ...

Canning, West Bengal: When 23-year-old Rituri, who uses only her first name, got a job offer from her village dance teacher, she believed it would be the way out of poverty for her family. A series of ...

Kachchh: In the semi-arid landscape of Kachchh in Gujarat, farmers have traditionally practised Ram-Mol, or multi-cropping, to sustain through the harshest times. Kachchh is characterised by harsh ...

A rising sea, frequent natural disasters, and climate change have worsened prospects for farmers and fishermen, while destroying homes and businesses ...

A rising sea, frequent natural disasters, and climate change have worsened prospects for farmers and fishermen, while destroying homes and businesses ...

Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the laborious system is seeing... Farmers say they don’t earn enough from farming ...

Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the laborious system is seeing ...

Chor Meghna, an Indian hamlet on the Bangladesh border in West Bengal, lies outside the wire fence that separates the two countries. Residents need to ...