Our Focus

Focal areas of our research, long term as well as evolving, consist of:

School Education  

 Children’s classroom life; child hunger, nutrition and education; the school meal programme and Integrated Child Development Scheme; capability development of children with special needs

 Teacher autonomy and empowerment, the role of teachers’ unions and networks in enhancing educational justice

 Growth of supplementary private tutoring and its quality/equity effects

Primary Healthcare   

 Inequalities and deficiencies in public health

 Universal health coverage

 Social determinants of health

 Healthcare in ‘normal’ times and in ‘crisis’ times- the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond

Gender equality

 Educational opportunities of young girls; the role of incentive programmes in enhancing their school participation

 Early marriage of adolescent girls and its socio-economic, cultural and legal underpinnings

 Women’s nutritional empowerment

 Women’s workforce participation

Digital technology and People’s Well-being

 Digital Divide in school education

Skills formation for the youth, with a thrust on greater use of solar energy for human development

 Hands-on training on micro-solar electricity generation and its applications