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The aim of this project is to prepare the Input-Output Transactions Table for Assam.

This study aims to present a comprehensive statistical portrait of Assamese women.  The objective of the study is to survey women’s conditions in Assam with a focus on health and nutrition conditions, educational attainments, skills and employability, and incidence of crimes against women.

The twin objectives of the study entitled “Telecom Sector External Profile” are:

• To map the external profile of the telecom manufacturing sector and;
• To understand the opportunities and challenges that this sector faces in becoming a global hub.

The study will be implemented in two phases:

Phase I

What is the telecom sector? Telecom sector will be divided into three groups – (i) manufacturing of telecom devices; (ii) repair and maintenance of telecom devices and; (iii) trade (wholesale and retail) of telecom devices.

Map the external profile of the telecom manufacturing sector using available secondary data from the Ministry of Commerce and Department of Telecommunications. (i) Identify export & import trends and patterns; (ii) Foreign Direct Investment in the telecom sector.

Phase II

1. National Survey of telecom manufacturing firms

2. Identify the opportunities for the telecom manufacturing firms

3. Identify challenges for telecom manufacturing firms in scaling up both domestically and globally.

4. Phases 1 and 2 together will be used to formulate evidence-based policy for the telecom sector such that the sector can be scaled up.

The Government of India announced a net-zero target to be achieved by 2070 and various ambitious short-term climate goals to be achieved by 2030 during the recent Conference of Parties-26 (COP-26) in Glasgow. However, the impact of energy transition on socio-economic aspects needs to be comprehensively understood. The policy intervention for achieving a low-carbon pathway by 2070 needs careful thought as to what could be the possible growth path of the Indian economy and how well the economic demographics will evolve in the distant future. In this context, there is a need to build a top-down socio-economic macro model, which could be linked with the bottom-up energy model. The results pertaining to policy intervention in any bottom-up energy model depend crucially on the: (a) likely economic pathway, (b) likely sectoral growth path, and (c) manner in which the pathway plays down across income classes in household groups.

Under this project, we will construct a top-down socio-economic macro model to address the above three questions, which will then feed into the bottom-up mode being developed by TERI.

The project aims to generate policy-relevant knowledge and strengthen the discourse to inform India’s low-carbon pathways, including its net-zero targets, and viable energy transition while meeting its development goals.

The UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 states that by 2030, all countries must provide legal identity for all their citizens, including birth registration. India launched its own digital identity in 2009. Since then, approximately, 95 per cent of India’s population has been enrolled with Aadhaar. The Aadhaar is universal in nature, i.e. there are no eligibility criteria for acquiring it. The Aadhaar is also not functional in nature, i.e. it is not intended for specific use for a particular purpose or sector. However, it can be linked to various functional identification systems.  It is also a proof of residence versus proof of citizenship.

Earlier research has shown the significant potential implications of legal identity for a range of issues.

The overall objective of this project is to estimate the impact of Aadhaar on GDP. There are three key stakeholders in the identification projects – the public sector, the private sector, and citizens. We will identify the direct and indirect linkages between these three stakeholders and estimate the size of the linkages to assess the overall impact of Aadhaar on GDP.