Op-ed

Op-ed July 1, 2022

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

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.

Op-ed July 11, 2021

Opinion | Why linking Aadhaar with voter ID is a dangerous idea

By Vibhav Mariwala & Prakhar Misra

The absence of robust data protection standards, increased scope for fraud and the fractured experience of previous integrations show why government must not rush this move

Op-ed July 4, 2021

Opinion | COVID-19: trauma from India’s second wave may have lingering effects on its frontline workers

By Nikita Kwatra & Sofia Imad

About a fourth of Accredited Social Health Activist workers on Covid duty were not provided masks.

Op-ed June 10, 2021

Opinion| Decentralisation and social mobilisation during the second wave of COVID-19

By Vibhav Mariwala & Kadambari Shah

In this piece, the authors outline how states have harnessed institutional reform, decentralised governance, and social mobilisation to fight the pandemic.