Focal areas of our research, long term as well as evolving, consist of:
School Education
- Children’s classroom life; child hunger, nutrition and education; the school meal programme and Integrated Child Development Scheme; capability development of children with special needs
- Teacher autonomy and empowerment, the role of teachers’ unions and networks in enhancing educational justice
- Growth of supplementary private tutoring and its quality/equity effects
Primary Healthcare
- Inequalities and deficiencies in public health
- Universal health coverage
- Social determinants of health
- Healthcare in ‘normal’ times and in ‘crisis’ times- the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
Gender equality
- Educational opportunities of young girls; the role of incentive programmes in enhancing their school participation
- Early marriage of adolescent girls and its socio-economic, cultural and legal underpinnings
- Women’s nutritional empowerment
Digital technology and People’s Well-being
- Digital Divide in school education
Skills formation for the youth, with a thrust on greater use of solar energy for human development