Village, Politics and Reminiscence

PRAMIT PRITAM JENA Pramit Pritam Jena, worked in the tribal village of Purulia, West Bengal with PRADAN as a part of field work for Public Policy students at National Law School. From the experience during his fieldwork, he brings to the light the daily life of people, empowerment of women collectives, sustainability of Self Help…

Fieldwork

EDITORS MPP 2016-2018 An intrinsic component of a Public Policy program is an experience of the ground reality. In order to comprehend the actual workings of a policy initiative or government scheme, the batch of 2016-18 engaged in three weeks of fieldwork. Different groups of nascent policy analysts spread across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,…

Anganwadi

Swasti Raizada Watch the barefoot journey of Swasti Raizada, MPP student, as she traces childhood through the anganwadis of rural Rajasthan as part of her field trip. At the intersection of child rights and food policy, the questions that she raises, hit the core of public service delivery in India today. She brilliantly essays  the…

Case Study on Elections and Decentralisation

Meenu Maria Joseph Elections and Decentralisation: A Case Study of Kudumbashree in Select Panchayats of Kerela Understanding Kudumbashree Kudumbashree, the flagship poverty eradication programme of Kerala government was launched in the year 1998 in urban Alappuzha and in rural Malappuram under the aegis of Government of Kerala to scale up the strategy to the entire…

The Rural Rural Divide: Mobile Phone in Rajasthan

Srisagar B. Mobile Phone Penetration in Rural Rajasthan Understanding the Rural-Rural Divide: A Study of Two Panchayats India’s tryst with telecommunication began with the laying down of the first telegraph line between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour in 1850 and setting up of a separate department of posts and telegraph in 1854. Since then India has…