Research Projects
Research Projects
West Bengal Human Development Report 2025
A comprehensive study of human development priorities, practices and achievements. The report has been submitted to the Govt. of West ...
Voices and Choices of Working Women in West Bengal: A Study of Select Sectors
Pratichi (India) Trust has undertaken a study to assess key barriers to women’s entry, retention, and advancement in selected professional ...
Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition (WENI)
A collaborative study on assessing women’s role in decisions about household’s nutritional choices ...
Achieving Quality of Education through Enhanced Teachers’ Capabilities
The project examined the ways in which teachers’ capabilities could be enhanced and their creativity harnessed to further the quality ...
Public Grievance Redressal
An assessment study was conducted to examine the functioning of the Public Grievance Redressal Cell as well as citizens’ awareness ...
Duare Sarkar Scheme
An assessment of a scheme for door-step delivery of state-run welfare schemes and its effect on citizens’ clam-making ...
Public Services during COVID-19
This project closely examined how far some of the key public services and social policies were stretched during the pandemic ...
Hands on training on solar energy harvesting
A skills-formation programme on solar energy basics for electricity generation and application; Results of two rounds of this initiative documented ...
Lakshmir Bhandar Scheme
An evaluative exercise was undertaken to gauge the impact of a large-scale cash transfer programme for women, in particular on ...
Project on Primary Education in Kolkata (2020)
This study on ‘public’ schools, under Kolkata Primary Schools Council (KPSC) and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was actually derived from ...
Project on the Status of the Adivasis of West Bengal (2020)
Pratichi Institute in collaboration with the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, had undertaken the work of preparing a detailed report on the ...
Assessment of the Sabooj Sathi Bicycle Distribution Scheme (2019)
Pratichi Institute had been invited by the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes Development and Finance Corporation to ...
Pre-primary education: Social Choice, Parental Choice, and Schools’ Choice (2019)
An empirical study on preprimary education was carried out and a report prepared based on primary data collected from the ...
Research study on Gender Consciousness (2019)
Our research study initiated in 2018 focused on how early in life gender ‘identification’ begins and how it affects the ...
