State Road Transport buses at a government depot in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. File photo: The Hindu

Transport as a Right and the Need to Re-Orient India's SRTUs

S. Raja Sethu Durai

India's road network carries close to 90 per cent of the country's passenger traffic and about 60 per cent of its freight. This sector also includes the socially important State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs), which have a modest share in India’s total fleet of buses but play an irreplaceable social role. By providing affordable transportation ...

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A crowded Narwal wholesale vegetable market in the outskirts of Jammu, on December 6, 2021, despite global concerns over a new variant of COVID-19, Omicron. Photo: PTI
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COVID-19 Compendium: Official Information on COVID-19 Released by India and the WHO [HTML and PDF]

An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,300 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy on COVID-19, daily State-wise Status by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, all-India SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Testing Status by the Indian Council of ...

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A farmer returns homewards from his farm in a village in Haryana on March 5, 2021. The ongoing farmer protests at the Ghazipur border outside Delhi entered the 100th day on March 6. Contentious new agricultural reform laws have led tens of thousands of farmers to block key highways leading to the capital. Multiple rounds of talks have failed to produce any breakthrough on the farmers' key demand to revoke the legislation. Photo: AP

Food Security and Markets: Understanding the Protests over India’s Changing Social Contract with Farmers

Sukhpal Singh

For more than 100 days now India’s farmers have protested at the Shinghu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders outside the national capital, New Delhi. Earlier, ...

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Report: High-Level Committee to Study the Impact of NEET on Medical Admissions in Tamil Nadu

A High-Level Committee to Study the Impact of NEET [National Eligibility cum Entrance Test] on Medical Admissions in Tamil Nadu, 2021, submitted its ...

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Fishermen in Kakinada are overawed at the large ocean liner unloading coal at the Kakinada Port. The draft Indian Ports Bill, 2021, aims to centralise the administration of India's 212 Non-Major Ports, most of which are fisheries harbours. File photo: The Hindu BusinessLine

A Draft Bill that Cuts Maritime States Adrift

K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty

In most developed countries, ports are managed by municipal or provincial governments, with the federal government overseeing only border control, ...

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Data: Crime in India - 2020 (Volumes I - III) and links to Reports from 1953

Crime In India(From National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) website) This is the oldest and the most prestigious publication brought out by NCRB. The ...

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Data: Report on All India Debt & Investment Survey - 2019 [PDF 15 MB]

PRESS RELEASE[An excerpt from the Release]The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted the ...

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Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates

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Policy Watch No.14

The Supreme Court of India's Vision for e-Courts: The Need to Retain Justice as a Public Service

Siddharth Peter de Souza, Varsha Aithala, Srishti John

Disruptions, at times, become catalysts for initiating change. Although India’s journey to create digital infrastructure to deliver justice commenced before the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the pandemic hastened the pace of the country’s ...
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Background Note No.7

Public Policy and the Child in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy and UNICEF, Chennai, organised a Round Table on Public Policy and the Child in Tamil Nadu on September 02, 2017 (Saturday), at Kasturi Buildings, 859 & 860, Anna Salai, Chennai.   The aim of the Round Table was to take st ...
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