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Interaction of Brig V Anand of the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, with students of MIT School of Government, Pune

On March 12, 2018, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted a group of teachers and students from the MIT School of Government, Pune. The session was chaired by Brig Vinod Anand. The other members on the panel were Shri RNP Singh (Senior Fel....

March 16, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Interaction , China , Maritime Security , Tibet , MIT School , Kashmiri Pandits

Vimarsha: Ensuring Food Security for India

VIF’s monthly Vimarsha for the month of February, 2018, focused on ‘Ensuring Food Security for India’ through an enlightening talk delivered by Mr. S.K Pattanayak, Secretary to the Government of India (Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfar....

March 16, 2018 Vimarsh , Governance and Political Studies , Food Security for India , Ministry of Agriculture

Commentary: Pre-eminent Issues of Governance in Arunachal Pradesh

Gautam Sen Commentary

Arunachal Pradesh (AP) is the 29^th state of India, with a large area of 14 lakh sq. km. and population of only 14 lakh, placing it in 15th and 27th position, respectively on a national basis. However, the geopolitical significance of the p....

March 14, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Arunachal Pradesh economy , AP internal security , AP inter-tribe trust

Commentary: Mizoram Contends with Refugee Influx from Myanmar

Gautam Sen Commentary

The Mizoram Government has recently raised an alert on migration of refugees to the state from Myanmar. The State Government was quite complacent on inflow of refugees till early October last year, particularly in its belief that the Rohingyas of Rak....

March 01, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Myanmarese Buddhist migration , Buddhist refugees in Mizoram , Refugee Influx , Myanmar , Mizoram

भारतीय राजनीति में गठबंधन काल का आरंभ

RNP Singh

आधुनिक भारत में संसदीय और राष्ट्रपति आधारित लोकतंत्र राजनीतिक पार्टियों की उपस्थिति में ही क�....

February 21, 2018 Governance and Political Studies

Why Economic Survey of India 2018 is Path-breaking

Rajesh Singh

The Economic Survey of India (ESI) has a short shelf-life in the public narrative, because it gets overshadowed by the Union Budget that is presented soon after. But ESI 2018 will have a greater longevity because of its two ground breaking chapters. ....

February 20, 2018 Governance and Political Studies

A Study on Skills and Employment Strategy for India’s Poor Districts

Partha Pratim Mitra

Introduction The focus of the study is to identify the reasons for their remaining poor and backward, and designing a skills and employment strategy based on the ground conditions as revealed by the census data. This Study reli....

February 16, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Socio-economic parameters , poor districts , employment plan

Aadhar 2.0 - Leveraging Blockchain

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized an interaction the topic being "Aadhar 2.0: Leveraging Blockchain" on 23rd January, 2018. Presentation on the topic was given by Sh. Vinayak Dalmia, Co-founder, Amber Health, and Smt. Shikha Me....

February 06, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Conferences , blockchain , Aadhar 2.0

Tripura and a North-Eastern Perspective

Gautam Sen

India`s north-east is a fascinating geo-political entity in the country`s internal context. The developments in the region, or rather the sub-region, has continued to have ramifications since the first decade of India`s nationhood, both internally an....

January 30, 2018 North-East Insurgency , Governance and Political Studies , Tripura , North-Eastern , National Congress , West Bengal , developments , economy , TTAADC , administrative structure

Commentary: Electoral Bonds – First Step to Cleanse the Electoral System

Dr A Surya Prakash Commentary

Indians take pride in the fact that they are citizens of the world’s largest democracy and that despite poverty, under-development and fairly high levels of illiteracy, the democratic spirit in well and truly ingrained in the people. While all t....

January 29, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Election spending , electoral bonds