Ministries pitch proposals for work-from-home framework
The Hindustan Time, May 23, 2020
The Hindustan Time, May 23, 2020
Over two subsequent review meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, the department received feedback from nearly 80 ministries and departments for the draft proposal pitched on May 13.
Govt to create platform to map skilled workers
Livemint, May 22, 2020
Livemint, May 22, 2020
The National Skills Development Corp. (NSDC), along with an artificial intelligence company, is working on a new platform to map skilled and certified workers with demand clusters based on industrial requirements.
One overarching body likely for higher education
The Times of India, May 17, 2020
The Times of India, May 17, 2020
The final draft of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has proposed an overarching Higher Education Promotion Commission (HEPC) with four separate verticals —regulation, accreditation, funding, and academic standard— as part of complete overhaul of the present regulatory system.
COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM
- Govt may plan scheme for welfare, jobs of migrants
The Hindustan Times, May 30, 2020 - Centre eroding States’ fiscal autonomy
The Hindu Businessline, May 28, 2020 - Erosion of fiscal federalism in the times of Covid-19
The Hindu Businessline, May 25, 2020 - Niti Aayog may pitch for short-duration R&D projects
Livemint, May 24, 2020
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS
- Time to reform the bureaucracy
Businessworld, May 18, 2020 - Hearts of steel
The Telegraph, May 18, 2020 - 60 ex-bureaucrats urge govt to stop Central Vista redevelopment plan
The Times of India, May 17, 2020 - Powers that the corona has conferred
The New Indian Express, May 14, 2020
RURAL ECONOMY
- A road map to strengthen India’s rural economy
Hindustan Times, May 24, 2020 - The govt’s flagship health scheme has crossed 1 crore treatments, positively impacted lives
The Indian Express, May 23, 2020 - Agri reforms implementation will be ‘1991 moment for agriculture and rural economy’
The Financial Express, May 18, 2020 - The economic package must promote jobs in rural sector
Moneycontrol, May 14, 2020
JOBS & SKILLS
- Survival of the skilled
India Today, May 15, 2020 - Why undergraduate courses need to teach much-needed skills to help graduates get jobs
India Today, May 12, 2020 - Skill training has become a numbers game
Deccan Herald, May 11, 2020
EDUCATION REFORMS
- Is social distancing feasible for a majority of schools in India?
The Wire, May 29, 2020 - Online education must supplement, not replace, physical sites of learning
The Indian Express, May 27, 2020 - Big push for online courses to ensure education doesn’t suffer
The Times of India, May 18, 2020 - 15 years on, schools to get new curriculum
The Times of India, May 14, 2020 - 4 negative impacts and 4 opportunities created for education
India Today, May 12, 2020
ECONOMIC REFORMS
- Niti Aayog suggests slew of steps to make India’s exports competitive
The Financial Express, May 30, 2020 - An opportunity for speedy economic reform
CNBCTV18, May 18, 2020 - India’s Rs 20 lakh crore Covid relief package one among the largest in the world
The Economic Times, May 15, 2020 - Quite the flop show
The Tribune India, May 12, 2020
