Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Technology & Skills

To improve delivery of services through technology, enhancing trade, and reaping demographic dividend India needs to invest in better understanding of challenges and opportunities in trade, technology, and skilling. Additionally, quicker development of the agricultural and allied rural sectors continues to remain a priority for achieving the objectives of higher growth and poverty reduction through better income and employment opportunities.

Subscription-based Platforms: Designing payouts for social welfare in the States Platform Workers…

The Code on Social Security, 2020, effective from 21.11.2025, recognizes gig and platform workers and mandates soci…

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Op-Eds

India needs dynamic social registries

A well-designed social registry, containing comprehensive household information, can address the ever-changing stat…

Event

National Workshop on Assessing Indirect and Intangible Benefits of Irrigation Projects

NCAER organised a National Workshop on March 17, 2026, at its campus in New Delhi, to deliberate on the assessm…

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Event

NCAER Reports Launch 2025 : Food Delivery Platform Sector

As part of the NCAER Gig Economy Initiative, on December 18, 2025, the NCAER released two reports on the food d…

Project

Impact Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

Rural connectivity plays a pivotal role in driving socio-economic transformation in agrarian economies like India, …

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Subscription-based Platforms: Designing payouts for social welfare in the States Platform Workers Welfare Board

India needs dynamic social registries

National Workshop on Assessing Indirect and Intangible Benefits of Irrigation Projects

NCAER Reports Launch 2025 : Food Delivery Platform Sector

Impact Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

Publications

Books & Reports

13 July 2026

Impact Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

Bornali Bhandari, Laxmi Joshi, Nijara Deka + 10

Rural road connectivity is a foundational input for inclusive economic growth and social development. By improving physical access to markets, schools, health…

Op-Eds

13 July 2026

Industrial renewal in the East: Why West Bengal matters again

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

Once among India’s foremost manufacturing and trading centres, the eastern state of West Bengal gradually ceded ground to western and southern states…

Op-Eds

1 July 2026

Social registries cannot settle women’s cash transfers

Bornali Bhandari

Should social registries be used to decide who receives cash transfers for women? The answer depends on the purpose of the transfer….

Op-Eds

30 June 2026

India needs dynamic social registries

Bornali Bhandari

A well-designed social registry, containing comprehensive household information, can address the ever-changing state of poverty and simultaneously drive critical human development goals….

Events