India Development Review Online

5 days ago | idronline.org | Anjali Mishra |Tanupriya Singh

Anjali Mishra is a editor at IDR Hindi. Before this, she had worked as an assistant editor with Satyagraha for eight years. She started her career as a non-fiction writer in the television industry. Anjali's work as a journalist has focused on society, culture, health and gender issues. She has done post graduation in mathematics.

3 weeks ago | idronline.org | Pooja Kumari |Tanupriya Singh

I am from Ajitgarh village in Bhim tehsil, Rajsamand district, Rajasthan. I grew up with a father who was uninterested in his children’s well-being, and a mother who was extremely hard-working and took up the arduous task of stone-breaking to make ends meet.  It is the norm in our area for girls to drop out after class 10 or 12 and get married before they turn 18. This was expected of me too, especially given my family’s circumstances. But I was determined not to follow this path.

1 month ago | idronline.org | Ganesh Rao |Parul Agarwal |Halima Zoha Ansari

Unreliable data continues to weaken policy implementation and forces officials to rely on guesswork. Here's how accurate administrative data enables effective governance. Across India, state government departments are at the forefront of improving human capabilities through education, health, and nutrition programmes. Their ability to do so effectively depends on administrative (or admin) data1 collected and maintained by their staff.

1 month ago | idronline.org | Anupam Sharma |Tanupriya Singh

Tripura’s 2016 literacy assessment survey recorded a state literacy rate of 97.22 percent—the highest in India. However, a breakdown of this data to understand Tripura’s education infrastructure and post-education employment opportunities reveals a far more complex picture.  As a young graduate who studied and is now employed in Tripura, I have come to realise that finding quality educational institutions and jobs in different sectors is a challenge.

1 month ago | idronline.org | Vandana Menon |Tanupriya Singh

Faced with climate change, riverine communities are using memory maps, audio notes, and images to archive oral histories and traditional adaptation strategies. For centuries, the mighty rivers of the Northeast have shaped sociocultural and economic identities, and people’s lives have remained intertwined with the rivers. The Lepchas of North Sikkim revere the Rongyong river and depend on it as a water source for their agricultural needs.