Opinion: Sonalde Desai. The population dialogue in India has been dominated by concerns about population explosion. However, it is time for us to move these fears and learn from the experiences of other countries. In her speech, while presenting the 2024 budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman promised a committee to study India’s population growth to... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai. The population dialogue in India has been dominated by concerns about population explosion. However, it is time for us to move these fears and learn from the experiences of other countries. In her speech, while presenting the 2024 budget, Finance Minister Nirmala... Read More
Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow at the NCAER-NDIC, was invited to participate in a panel discussion at the Niti-State Workshop series on "Leveraging State Data Ecosystems for State and District-Level Policy and Planning" hosted by the Niti Aayog and the World Bank at The Centrum in... Read More
Professor Sonalde Desai and Professor Amaresh Dubey were invited to participate in a Panel Discussion organised by Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia, on 8 November 2023. The Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS), New Delhi, and Rosa... Read More
Sonalde Desai and Pallavi Choudhuri presented a paper titled “India’s Occupational Transformation: A Tale of Two Escalators” at a conference on India’s Economy in a Changing Global Landscape at Cornell University, Ithaca on October 14, 2023. India has undergone tremendous changes over the past three... Read More
Mr. Suman Bery, Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, joined us for a special event the NDIC Fellows meeting on October 17, 2023. Mr. Bery shared insights on selecting impactful research topics, presenting results for policy influence, and NITI Aayog's research priorities. His conversation and query session... Read More
Data collection for the third round of the much-awaited India Human Development Survey (IHDS-3), has started from the second week of May 2022 and is in full swing. The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a nationally representative, multi-topic panel survey. The NDIC team conducted... Read More
Santanu Pramanik, Senior Fellow at NCAER and Deputy Director of NDIC, presented on “Statistical validation of a large-scale web survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in India” at the University of Michigan, Survey Research Centre Faculty Seminar. This was a joint work with Abhinav Motheram, Research... Read More
The NCAER National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) has launched a gender data hub, supported by a five-year grant from Co-Impact. This hub will focus on research supporting evidence-based policy design from a gender perspective. It will serve as a resource for researchers, policy-makers, civil society... Read More
NDIC team members were conspicuous by their presence at the 2022 Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference. NDIC Deputy Director Santanu Pramanik organised and chaired a session on COVID-19 vaccination. Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow, NCAER, presented her work on “Impact of COVID-19 on Household... Read More
Dr Sonalde Desai, Professor at NCAER, who holds a joint appointment at University of Maryland, USA, has recently been appointed as Distinguished University Professor (DUP) at the University. DUP status is a permanent honorific title that recognises exceptional records in research, teaching, and service. Dr... Read More