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The skill intervention initiative undertaken by Smart City Missions holds huge benefits. A recent NCAER study in collaboration with Smart City Mission (SCM) and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) examines how skilling centres in smart cities could enhance skill development and employability. Read here: ncaer.org/publication/ci…

NCAER is proud to co-host two key sessions (Inequality, Gender & Education, & Rural Women in the context of Agrarian crisis) at the @cwdsorg conference. The international conference titled 'Reflections on the Past: Looking to the Future', marking 50 yrs of Towards Equality Report took place from 3rd to 5th of March 2025. #IWD2025

Based on 2⃣ rounds of NCAER's #Land Records & Services Index (N-LRSI), @ncaer Fellow Charu Jain presented insights at the MOSPI @GoIStats workshop on '#Survey #Methodologies for Large Scale Sample Surveys on May 20th. 10-pg summary of N-LRSI's findings ▶️ bit.ly/3VbQNrc

'@ncaer has a rich history of research on gender including a seminal time-use survey in the 1980s & association w/ stalwarts like Monica Dasgupta, Alaka Basu & Ratna Sudarshan Last week on #InternationalWomensDay we 👂 to & celebrated the gender research of our women colleagues!

This #InternationalWomensDay2024 👩‍👧‍👧, convened by Prof @SonaldeDesai, @ncaer is turning the spotlight 🔦on its gender research & its women researchers! We look forward to listening, discussing & snacking on good evidence & research themes together!

Chronic absenteeism for the students enrolled in the age group of 8 to 11 years at the primary level in India was recorded to be higher (22.6 percent) in 2011-12 compared to those enrolled in 2004-05 (16.4 percent)

‘This article empirically investigates the incidences and causes of chronic absenteeism while examining the variations in the attainment of foundational skills of primary students.’ ncaer.org/wp-content/upl…

(3/3) Just having a title won’t resolve the bigger challenge of different levels of inequities that women still face when they own the land in terms of limited access to single land titles, lower shares, smaller size & inferior quality of land holdings.

(2/3) What biases against women influence their land ownership? Based on sex-disaggregated data from about 16,000 original digital copies of land records for 12 States/Union Territories in rural India, what do the findings of the paper show? 👇👇👇

(1/3) Despite women-centric changes in policies over time, why do they have limited ownership and control over agricultural land? This paper highlights the evidence of bias against women in land rights, urging new ways to rethink policy. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

(3/6)Using N-LRSI data @ncaer, Charu Jain & Deepak Sanan find that few women hold land titles solely in their own names. Even when they have land in their names, it is jointly titled & they hold a smaller share of land holdings & inferior quality of land. bit.ly/3AMDlyW