February 2017

Month

Education is Not Just About Math

By Shyam Krishna Kumar, Vision India Foundation Fellow This article was published in the  The New Indian Express The source of the image is Vision India Foundation The success of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan in enrolling almost 98 per cent of all children of school going age has shifted the focus...
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How trifurcation worsened East Delhi’s Local Governance

By Apula Singh , Alumni of Vision India Foundation The article was originally published in The Hindu The source of this image is Vision India Foundation East Delhi generates 2,000-2,200 metric tonnes of solid waste per day and this was the fifth time in the last two years that it was...
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Does Budget 2017 Do Enough For Education?

By Shyam Krishna Kumar, Vision India Foundation Fellow This article was published in the HuffingtonPost The source of the image is Vision India Foundation Given that India will have a working-age population of 869 million by 2020 and the fact that this was the first budget after the draft National Education...
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Arun Jaitley did a great thing by abolishing FIPB

By Kamal Madishetty , Alumni of Vision India Foundation Image Source: Vision India Foundation This article was published in the  DailyO Amidst a multitude of expectations, finance minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget 2017-18 in Parliament, one which was low on fireworks but high on pragmatic and incremental changes. Expansion...
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Budget 2017 Lays A Solid Foundation For The ‘Housing For All By 2022’ Scheme

By Apula Singh , Alumni of Vision India Foundation The article was originally published in The Huffington Post The source of this image is Vision India Foundation The ‘Housing For All By 2022’ scheme aims to meet the housing stock shortfall of 2 crore. Meeting this gap would require construction...
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