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India’s first Land Records and Services Index is a way to gauge States’ relative performance and help improve services on the ground The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) recently released India’s first Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI) 2020 based on data collected over 2019-20 on two aspects of the supply of records...   Read More

In most sectors share of female employees is low. Where the share is close to 50 per cent there are few women in top roles The NCAER Skills Report 2018 has emphasised on the importance of female role models to encourage employability and eventual employment. Where are these role models? The numbers from the Periodic...   Read More

Lately India’s trade policy seem to lack a vision. After actively pursuing it for over a decade India decided against joining RCEP at the eleventh hour. The official version is that India runs a large trade deficit with RCEP countries and was expecting specific protection for its industry and farmers from a surge in imports...   Read More

From the perception that few women are found in the fields of science technology engineering and mathematics emerges the paradox that the disbalance is by choice rather than any constraint As the world celebrated another Women’s Day on March 8 this time under the shadow of the lethal Coronavirus with scientists and medical professionals across...   Read More

The 2020 Union Budget has failed to provide any fiscal stimulus based upon the assumption that there is no fiscal space for providing growth stimulus. In doing so it missed out on the opportunity of leveraging an additional fiscal space of around 10% of the gross domestic product that could have been tapped through revenue...   Read More

The massive victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi Assembly elections is momentous. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party won 62 seats while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed only eight and the Congress drew a blank. This is not so because Delhi is the capital of India or because AAP has been re-elected...   Read More

Link to NCAER India Land Portal NCAER’s new NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI 2020), supported by Omidyar Network India assesses the extent of digitisation of land records and the quality of these land records in the States and UTs of India. Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu emerged as the top...   Read More

NCAER’s new NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI 2020), supported by Omidyar Network India assesses the extent of digitisation of land records and the quality of these land records in the States and UTs of India. Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu emerged as the top States in the N-LRSI 2020. The...   Read More

NCAER’s new NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI 2020), supported by Omidyar Network India assesses the extent of digitisation of land records and the quality of these land records in the States and UTs of India. Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu emerged as the top States in the N-LRSI 2020. The...   Read More

About 70 million population are engaged in milk production in India of which a very large proportion belongs to landless, marginal and small farmers. The Socio-Economic Survey of NCAER (September-October, 2020) brought out explicitly the impact of dairy activities on the smallholders livelihood, income and women participation. Village-Based Milk Procurement System (VBMPS), one of the...   Read More

Delhi’s urban planning policies have been characterised by the inability of the agencies concerned to facilitate adequate supply of affordable formal housing stock for its residents. As a result informal housing has crept up across large parts of the national Capital. Unauthorised Colonies (UACs) are one form of such informal housing categories and have grown...   Read More

The youth not in education employment or training are often targeted for educational and vocational training programmes. India too has developed such programmes particularly the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) the flagship scheme of the Central government. However as pointed out in the NCAER Skills Report 2018 titled ‘Skilling India: No Time to Lose’...   Read More