Kathyayini Chamaraj

Jan 16, 2025 | deccanherald.com | Kathyayini Chamaraj

Road to nowhere: The flawed logic of Bengaluru's tunnel projectThe tunnel road project will primarily benefit Bengaluru’s 23 lakh private car owners, or 2.7% of the state’s population, while potentially placing the loan repayment burden on Karnataka’s seven crore residents, most of whom may not use the tunnel road at all.

Nov 3, 2024 | thewire.in | Kathyayini Chamaraj

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Aug 25, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Kathyayini Chamaraj

The proposed Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers’ (Social Security & Welfare) Bill 2024, which was expected to be passed in the last session of the Karnataka legislature, was not passed reportedly due to objections from aggregators, since the Union’s four labour codes are also in the offing. This stalling of the gig workers’ Bill may be a fortuitous development as it gives time to rethink the framing of sector-specific laws in Karnataka for social security, like the one for gig workers.

Jul 24, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Kathyayini Chamaraj

The Greater Bengaluru Governance Bill (GBGB), 2024, placed before the Assembly on July 23, and its draft version by the Brand Bengaluru Committee, were both not first made public as required under Section 4(1)(c) and (d) of the Right to Information Act, keeping the citizens in the dark about a matter that deeply affects them. The reported versions of the Bill suggest that the sole aim of the GBGB is to discard the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (74th CAA).

Jun 23, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Kathyayini Chamaraj

It is shameful that despite a decade of unhindered majority rule by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA government at the Centre, India still has the highest number of malnourished children in the world, and we are nowhere near fulfilling Sustainable Development Goal number two, ‘Zero Hunger,’ by 2030. Despite being the fastest-growing major economy and having ambitions to become the world’s third-largest economy, India cannot provide enough nutrition to its youngest children.