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The Future Of Higher Education: A White Paper

Jul 3, 2020

The Future Of Higher Education: A White Paper

COVID-19 changes substantially how the higher education sector must operate. This brings with it new challenges that must be urgently met, and new opportunities. Based on a virtual conference organised by Ashoka University and Harappa Education on this subject, IPC has written up a white paper that lists out insights and challenges, as well as possible solutions and opportunities. The Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 drastically changed the nature of India’s higher education sect

What Ails the Police Force?

Jun 28, 2020

What Ails the Police Force?

Police reform is imperative but we first have to understand the key issues involved. A 188 page report created by Common Cause and the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies helps us with this. We break down the highlights for you. From bias to brutality, the police force has come to be the face of the failure of India’s criminal justice system. Even so, police reform, though long overdue, has been neglected by successive governments. Arguably,

Questions for the 15th Finance Commission to Answer

Jun 16, 2020

Questions for the 15th Finance Commission to Answer

The 15th Finance Commission is expected to submit its five year report. Read on to know how and why this is important, especially for centre-state relations and a list of questions the commission will have to confront. The bulk of the responsibility to fight the virus is upon the states. This battle has exponentially increased their expenditure burden. Meanwhile, revenues have been hit by the various phases of lockdown. Against this backdrop, the 15th Finance Commission is ex

IPC Explainer: Tech Vs. Privacy During COVID-19

Jun 9, 2020

IPC Explainer: Tech Vs. Privacy During COVID-19

What are the key contours of the tech vs privacy debate when it comes to fighting the coronavirus? What have other countries around the world done? Kanksshi Aggarwal breaks it down for us. The world has been fighting the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease for months now. Some countries acted before others. Some have managed to flatten the curve; others are still planning an exit strategy out of stringent lockdowns. But most importantly, almost all the countries have resorted to

How Healthy is the Aarogya Setu?

Jun 1, 2020

How Healthy is the Aarogya Setu?

On the issue of the Aarogya Setu App, IPC has collated a list of demands that the government needs to meet now. The central government's health tracking application - Aarogya Setu - has generated a lot of debate in recent times. The central issue, as with a lot of technological interventions in governance, is two-fold - Is the app likely to malfunction? Is the app open to misuse? Given the extent and nature of the health and humanitarian crises, these issues are urgent and

IPC’s Big Think: Abhijit Sen (Part 2)

May 28, 2020

IPC’s Big Think: Abhijit Sen (Part 2)

This is part two of the first of IPC’s series of ‘big think’ interviews, with Abhijit Sen. The idea behind the series is that experts present crucial policy issues and solutions, in the simplest way possible, for laypeople to understand. In this part, Sen, economist and former member of India’s planning and finance commissions, shines a light on the economic measures necessary to get India out of the medical and economic crisis that is COVID-19. What the economic package to g

IPC’s Big Think: Abhijit Sen (Part 1)

May 26, 2020

IPC’s Big Think: Abhijit Sen (Part 1)

IPC is launching a series of ‘big think’ interviews where experts break down crucial policy issues and their solutions in the simplest way possible. Our first is with Abhijit Sen, economist and former member of India’s planning and finance commissions. He dissects the COVID-19 crisis from an economic as well as medical angle and recommends solutions. The interview is in two parts. This is part one. On a quiet locked down evening Abhijit Sen spoke to IPC for well over an hour