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WEBThe share of Indian Railways in domestic freight transport has been declining over time, from 85% in 1951 to less than 30% in 2022. However, Indian Railways has set loading targets of 3,000 million tonnes by 2027 and 3,600 MT by 2030–31, to achieve 45% of freight share by 2030–31. This article analyses the operational characteristics of ...
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WEBVarun Agarwal, Devashish Deshpande, Josh Felman, Theerdha Sara Reji, Arvind Subramanian. This article examines in detail seven years of goods and services tax revenue performance. Our main findings are as follows. First, overall revenues have only now converged to pre-GST levels. Second, the union forewent up …
Untouchability in India: A Reading List
WEBMar 15, 2021 · The caste system in India involves “rank and gradation,” Sukhadeo Thorat explains, which make “the rights and privileges of higher castes, become the disabilities of the lower castes, particularly the untouchables.”. According to Amit Thorat and Omkar Joshi, being India’s “quintessential social and individual identifier,” caste receives a lot of scholarship focusing on its ...
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WEBAbout Us. The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai, is an Indian institution which enjoys a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry. First published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 as the Economic and Political Weekly, EPW, as the journal is popularly known, occupies a ...
Article 19: Mapping the Free Speech Debate in India
WEBMany laws that restrict free speech such as the laws punishing sedition, hate speech or defamation, derive their legitimacy from Article 19 (2). Inspection of movies, books, paintings, etc, is also possible by way of this clause. Scholars note that censorship in India was, and still is, historically rooted in the discourse of protecting Indian ...
The Green Tribunal in India After 10 Years
WEBDec 25, 2021 · The National Green Tribunal—a specialised environmental institution constituted 10 years ago—has transformed environmental regulation and governance in India. Yet, the NGT’s success has been tarnished in several areas. What used to be a progressive, the innovative green tribunal now is inconsistent in adjudicating environmental litigation pitched against huge infrastructure projects.
Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy
WEBAug 27, 2022 · Every contribution is valuable for our future. The Bombay School of Economics, now known as the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, an autonomous department of the University of Mumbai, completed 100 years on 1 August 2021. In this article, we attempt to look at the various facets of one of the oldest departments in the country.
NEP 2020 and the Discontinuation of the MPhil Degree
WEBThe National Education Policy 2020 provides a framework for reorganising and revamping higher education in India. Among several of its recommendations, the decision to discontinue the MPhil programme is a signifi cant one. The article makes an attempt to understand the perspective behind the move to discontinue the MPhil programme. The MPhil programme is discontinued for the more research ...
Human Development Index 2021–22 and India
WEBThe Human Development Report 202122, brought out by the United Nations Development Programme, shows that Indias global rankings have gone down from 130 in 2020 to 132 in 2021. This is not surprising as the growth in Indias Human Development Index (HDI) values have decelerated faster than the global values during the pandemic.
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