Op-ed

Op-ed August 16, 2022

Opinion | The Long Road to Breaking Free

In this piece for the Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Senior Fellow and CEO, Artha India, documents India’s economic journey of the past 75 years and offers lessons for the future.

Op-ed August 11, 2022

Opinion | Are cities holding India back from reaching its ambitious net zero targets?

By Jagan Shah & Sam Downes

In this op-ed for Ideas for India, Sam Downes and Jagan Shah look at how urbanisation in India could derail national decarbonsation efforts.

Op-ed July 21, 2022

Opinion | New National Data Policy Still in Shadow of Old Rulebook

By Harsh Vardhan Pachisia & Sharmadha Srinivasan

The draft National Data Governance Framework Policy, 2022 still suffers from issues of implementation, capacity and incentives.

Op-ed July 1, 2022

Opinion | These are the gaps the Centre must fill to ensure 100% coverage of welfare beneficiaries

By Nikita Kwatra

India has an extremely complex social protection system where benefits are thinly spread across a number of central and state government schemes.

Op-ed June 15, 2022

Opinion | The Central Bank’s Balance Sheet Will Shrink as it Battles Inflation

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

The trajectory of RBI’s repo rate as well as the way it manages its asset holdings will need to be watched closely from here on

Op-ed April 3, 2022

Opinion | Voluntary masking should be the way forward

By Dr. Reuben Abraham & Dr. Lancelot Pinto

As Mumbai drops its mask mandates, Reuben Abraham and Lancelot Pinto reflect on the way forward to curb airborne transmission

Op-ed February 24, 2022

Opinion | RBI must address three important questions before digital rupee launch

By Nikita Kwatra, Dr. Hemant Adarkar & Vikram Sinha

The proposed technology to develop this, as per the finance minister’s budget speech, is blockchain, a digitally distributed, decentralized, public ledger that exists across a network.

Op-ed November 6, 2021

On COVID-19 vaccination, don’t be complacent

By Sofia Imad & Anushka Bhansali

Vaccine demand can be generated through the development of targeted action plans addressing both access issues and hesitancy. With only a third of the eligible population fully vaccinated, we don’t have the luxury of time

Op-ed October 11, 2021

Opinion | PMAY’s subsidy burden will become unmanageable. Govt must look at the PPP model

By , Anushka Bhansali & Vibhav Mariwala

PMAY is an excellent first step to put mechanisms in place for directly reaching the beneficiaries but it has to evolve so it stays relevant and can be scaled up going ahead.

Op-ed August 27, 2021

Opinion | What Mandaviya and Vaishnaw must do

By Vibhav Mariwala & Nikita Kwatra

Since the start of the pandemic in India, there have been several instances where patients’ health data has been breached such as the accidental leak of Covid-19 data on Delhi government portals in January.