Events

Dr Poonam Gupta joined NCAER as its new Director General on July 1st, 2021. She succeeds Dr Shekhar Shah, who completed his second five-year term in May earlier this year. Dr Gupta is the first woman Director General of NCAER. Dr Gupta brings with her a rich experience spanning more than two decades to this key...   Read More

The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic—significantly more virulent than the first wave—has completely disrupted the economic recovery process after the first wave.  India's growth prospects in 2021-22 will depend on a host of factors which will determine how quickly India recovers from the impact of the second wave of the pandemic. Where will the...   Read More

Combining Data from Multiple Sources: Potential and Challenges of Data Linkages The second webinar in the NCAER Seminar series on Data Collection Methodology organised by the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre was held virtually on June 24, 2021. The webinar is part of a series of thought-provoking discussions on research methodologies in which distinguished speakers in the field...   Read More

In continuation of this series of workshops on investor education in the financial sector, the fourth and fifth workshops were held on two consecutive days. Organised by NCAER’s newly established Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Chair Unit , the workshop series was inaugurated on December 16, 2020 with a keynote address by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, followed by...   Read More

Taking stock of the current system of teaching and learning of skills in schools The New Education Policy 2020 has ushered in innovative approaches to learning by adding job-oriented and job-linked inputs in the school curriculum by the Central Board of Secondary Education. To take stock of the current status of teaching and learning of...   Read More

Lessons from a Large-scale Masking Experiment in Bangladesh In mid-February this year, India was registering some 12,000 cases of covid-19 a day, fewer than many advanced countries in Europe. On April 23, India clocked some 333,000 new, positive cases, far higher than any other country at any time during this pandemic. The Economist notes that epidemiologists estimate...   Read More

Niyati Agrawal, Monami Dasgupta, Anand Sinha, Ashwani Bhatia, Krishnamurthy Subramanian and Rajesh Chakrabarti  in conversation with  Ananth Narayan In recent times, financial markets have seen an increase in consumers seeking better returns through innovative investments to secure their wealth and savings. This has led to diversification of investments from old and trusted avenues to newer...   Read More

Data Collection vs Data Construction: How Methodology and Substance are Inextricably Interwoven The first in a new NCAER seminar series on Data Collection Methodology was organised by the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre on March 18, 2021. This first seminar, presented by Stanley Presser, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, is part of...   Read More

NCAER released its second Land Record and Services Index (N-LRSI) 2021, revealing that almost all States/Union Territories have shown an improvement in their efforts to digitize land records compared to the previous year. Madhya Pradesh has emerged as the top performer for the second year in a row, followed by West Bengal, Odisha, Maharashtra and Tamil...   Read More

Five investor education workshops with financial regulators Workshop III: Investor Education and Protection in the National Pension System NCAER’s newly established Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Chair Unit’s hosted the third of the series of five workshops on Investor Education and Protection. This workshop, focusing on the National Pension System was held virtually. India’s 2014 Pradhan Mantri...   Read More