Policy Briefs

Editor: Dr. Indrajit Bairagya

• Migrant Labour Skills in the Megacity of India: A Study of Labour Supply from
  Northeast and Demand in Bengaluru for Enhancing Employability
  (Reimeingam Marchang)

• Urbanisation in South India: Empirical Evidence and Some Policy Lessons
  (V. Anil Kumar)

• Household Carbon Footprint of India: A Comprehensive Assessment and Prospecting
  for Emission Reduction Pathways
  (Sunil Nautiyal, Mrinalini Goswami, Ranjeet Kishan & A Premkumar)

• Economic Loss of Forest Ecosystem Services and Policy Implications in Karnataka
  (M Balasubramanian)

• Agricultural Export, Value Chain and Doing Business: Critical Policy Issues and
  the Way Forward
  (Malini L Tantri)

• Learning from Covid-19 led lockdown to improve
  Bengaluru's ambient air quality:An assessment based on Sentinel-5P satellite data
  (Sunil Nautiyal, Satya Prakash and Mrinalini Goswami)

• Valuing Toilets: Towards Improved Access and Use
  of Toilets in Karnataka
  (D Rajasekhar, S Manasi, Channamma Kambara and R Manjula)

• Crop Insurance in Karnataka: Challenges and Policies
  (Meenakshi Rajeev)

• Responding to climate change: What should Karnataka and India do?
  (D Rajasekhar, Sunil Nautiyal, Kala S Sridhar, Krishna Raj, S Manasi and M Balasubramanian)

• The Frontline Interventions of National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme in Karnataka during Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges and the Way Ahead
  (Sobin George and Aditi Paranjpe)

• Migrant Construction Workers and Question of Inclusiveness: A Case Study of
  Bengaluru City
  (S Manasi, Malini L Tantri, Channamma Kambara)

• Policies for Improving Status of Education among Migrant Construction Workers'
  children in Bengaluru city
  (Channamma Kambara, S Manasi, Malini L Tantri)

• Policies for Improving Nutrition Status of Migrant Children of Construction Workers
   - The Case Study of Bengaluru City
  (Malini L Tantri, S Manasi, Channamma Kambara)

• Working Position of Health Staff and their Opinion on Public
  Healthcare Infrastructure
  (C M Lakshmana)

• Utilisation and the Opinion on Public Healthcare Delivery in Karnataka
  (C M Lakshmana)

• Ecosystem Services Valuation and Integration into the Policy at the Local
  Level in Karnataka
  (M Balasubramanian)

• Climate Change Impacts on Vulnerable Communities in Karnataka
  (M Balasubramanian, M Manjunath, OK Remadevi, KH Vinaya Kumar, RK Singh and Ritu Kakkar)

• Investments on Groundwater Conserving Technologies and its Implications for
  Policy in Semi-Arid Regions of Karnataka
  (N Nagaraj)

• COVID-19, Trade and India - Policy Issues in Leveraging the Opportunities
  (Malini L Tantri and Varadurga Bhat)

• Key issues facing the Irrigation Sector in Karnataka: Some Policy Interventions
  (N Nagaraj)

• Revival of Industrial Sector in Karnataka during Covid-19 - A Doing
  Business Approach
  (Malini L Tantri and Sanjukta Nair)

• Whether Micro-Irrigation is a Panacea for Ground water Scarcity and Sustainable
   Use in Indian Agriculture? Policy Imperatives
  (N Nagaraj)

• Existence Value of Kodagu Devara Kadu, Sacred Groves in India
  (MG Chandrakanth, MS Accavva, Mahadev G Bhat, MG Nagaraja and Guido Van Huylenbroeck)

• Valuation of Biodiversity - An Ecological Economic Perspective
  (MG Chandrakanth and GK Hiremath)

• Are Farmers Subsidizing the Cost of Irrigation to Consumers? Evidence from
  a micro study in Karnataka
  (MG Chandrakanth, Kiran Kumar R Patil)

  • Kannada Version

• Drug Development and Disease Burden in India: Conflicting Priorities and
  Possible Solutions
  (Sobin George)

  • Kannada Version

• The Urban Transport Governance Initiative (TGI) Toolkit: Pilot from
  Karnataka’s Cities
  (Kala S Sridhar, K.C. Smitha)

  • Kannada Version

• Urban Finances in Karnataka: How to Make them Sustainable?
  (Kala S Sridhar, S. Manasi and N. Latha)

  • Kannada Version

• Policy Options for Sustainable Holistic Health care Intervention: Insights
  from a PPP experiment
  (S Manasi, K V Raju)

  • Kannada Version

• Fish Processing Sector in Kerala: Concerns and Policies
  (Meenakshi Rajeev)

• Policy Interventions for Sustainable Water Management in Cities
  A case of Rainwater Harvesting in Bengaluru
  (S. Manasi, N. Latha)

• Digitalised Land Registration System in Karnataka: Implementation of Urban
  Property Ownership Records (UPOR)
  (S. Manasi, K.C. Smitha)

• Scaling up of Apprentceship Programme in Karnataka - Policy Options
  (K. Gayithri, Malini L. Tantri and D Rajasekhar)

• Farm Non-Farm Linkage and Role of Non-farm Sector for Rural Development
  (Meenakshi Rajeev and Manojit Bhattacharjee)

• Kannada Version

• India's Plantation Labour Act, 1951 - Need a Revisit
  (Malini L Tantri)

  • Kannada Version

• Sources of Funding for Social Science Research
  Funding in India: Flows, Adequacy and Priorities
  (K Gayithri and Indrajit Bairagya)

• Biodiversity conservation in semi-arid landscape: Central and North Eastern
  Dry Zones of Karnataka
  (Sunil Nautiyal, K. Bhaskar, Y D Imran Khan)

• Biodiversity conservation and improving the livelihood of tribal communities in
  Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve (BRTTR) through cost effective
  agro-biotechnological interventions
  (Sunil Nautiyal, C. Rajasekaran, Sravani Mannam)

  • Kannada Version

• Female Street Vendors in Bangalore City
  (Channamma Kambara and Mutharayappa R)

• Kannada Version

• Special Economic Zones through the Lenses of Trade Facilitation
  (Malini L. Tantri)

  • Kannada Version

• Policy Options for Improving Toilet Access among the urban poor
  (A.Ravindra, S. Manasi, N. Latha)

• Improving Quality & Sustainability of SHG Bank Linkage Programme: Lessons
  from Karnataka
  (Meenakshi Rajeev, B P Vani, Veerashekarappa)

• Providing Community Streetlights in Karnataka
  (D Rajasekhar and R Manjula)

• Farm Sector in Karnataka - Farmers' Indebtedness and Risk Management
  (Meenakshi Rajeev, B P Vani)

• Managing E-Waste in Bangalore
  (S Manasi, Bibhu Prasad Nayak and N Latha)

• Managing Common Pool Resources for Poverty Reduction in Tribal Areas
  of Eastern India (FAO)
  (R S Deshpande, D K Marathia, Khalil Shah)

• Strategies and recommendations for river basin management in Tungabhadra (STRIVER)
  (Manasi, S. (ISEC), Latha N (ISEC), Suhas Paranjape (SOPPECOM), Joy K.J. (SOPPECOM), Udaya Sekhar Nagothu (Bioforsk, Norway), K.V. Raju (ISEC), Peter P. Mollinga (ZEF, Germany), May 8, 2009)

• IWRM and Livelihoods: Fisheries in Tungabhadra subbasin, India (STRIVER)
  (Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Bioforsk, Norway Manasi, S., ISEC, 17 November 2008)

• Water valuation and pricing – when are they useful in water management? (STRIVER)
  (David N. Barton Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) K.V. Raju, ISEC, Desmond McNeill, SUM, University of Oslo, 17 November 2008)

• IWRM and Traditional systems: Tanks in theTungabhadra system (STRIVER)
  (Suhas Paranjape, SOPPECOM, K. J. Joy, SOPPECOM, S. Manasi, ISEC, N. Latha, ISEC, 17 November 2008 )

• Competing Water Uses in Tungabhadra Sub-basin, India (STRIVER)
  (Manasi,S; K.V.Raju; Latha, N.; ISEC, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Bioforsk, Norway, 17 November 2008)

• Community Lighting at What Cost?. Streetlight Services by Gram Panchayats in Karnataka
  (D Rajasekhar and R Manjula)

• WTO Agreements and Small Scale Industries in Karnataka State: An Explorative Study of Current Policy Issues and Interventions, and Future Policy Options
  (M.R. Narayana, 2005)

• Consumer Demand for Telecom Services in Karnataka and Goa
  (M.R. Narayana, 2005)

• India’s Export of Selected BPO Services: Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses
  (Meenakshi Rajeev, B P Vani)

• Design of Social Security Benefits for the Unorganised Workers
  (D Rajasekhar and Suchitra J Y)

• Restructuring Public Health Services for Better Outcomes: Blueprint for District Pilot in Karnataka
  (Shashanka Bhide, T V Sekher and Veerashekarappa)

• Valuing Life and Limb: Understanding the Risk-return Trade-off
  (S Madheswaran)