National Council of Applied Economic Research
Anupma Mehta is Editor at NCAER. She is responsible for writing, editing, and producing diverse company literature, including digital content, press releases, newsletters, working papers, reports, proposals, and project briefs for dissemination among stakeholders and clients of NCAER. She leads the communications team and is Managing Editor of the in-house flagship journal, the India Policy Forum, for which she supervises content editing and production. She also publishes updates and opinion articles on NCAER research in national dailies and other media.
She has earlier worked as Editorial Associate for the social science journals, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Indian Journal of Human Development and Journal of Social Inclusion Studies. She has undertaken editing assignments for research organisations, publishing houses, UN bodies, PSUs, and the social sector. She has also published articles and syndicated columns in various dailies including Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The Pioneer, Financial Express, Mid-Day, and The Tribune.
She has a BA (English Literature) from Lady Shri Ram College, an MA in English Literature from Delhi University, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Communications, Advertising and Public Relations from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
OPINION | The Pioneer
Ensuring a green and lean public transport system for Delhi
Anupma Mehta and Sanjib Pohit
June 05, 2023 | NCAER
OPINION | The Pioneer
The challenge of gender access to clean water
Anupma Mehta and Sanjib Pohit
March 29, 2023
Opinion | The Pioneer
The inequities of gender bias in India
Anupma Mehta
March 8, 2023
Opinion | The Pioneer
Polluting a river is a sin against it!
Sanjib Pohit and Anupma Mehta
September 27, 2022
Opinion | The Pioneer
Gandhian philosophy inspires rural development
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Anupma Mehta, and Laxmi Joshi
June 09, 2022
Opinion | The Pioneer
Why men are more equal than women
Anupma Mehta
March 08, 2022
Opinion | The QRIUS (online)
The real buzz behind the fizz—The Truth about Alcohol Consumption in India
Sanjib Pohit, Anupma Mehta, Samarth Gupta, and Soumi Roy Chowdhury
February 18, 2022
Opinion | The Economic Times
Will raising the marriageable age for women to 21 improve gender outcomes?
Anupma Mehta
December 25, 2021
Opinion | The QRIUS (online)
Cautious Optimism on Gender Data in National Family Health Surveys (NFHS-5)
Anupma Mehta
December 21, 2021
Opinion | The Pioneer
Tourism Sector Can Go Places with New Ideas
Poonam Munjal and Anupma Mehta
December 11, 2021
Opinion | The Pioneer
Women and Mental Health Morbidities
Anupma Mehta
October 11, 2021
Opinion | The Pioneer
Role of Cooperatives in Indian Economy
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay and Anupma Mehta
September 24, 2021
Opinion | The Pioneer
Gender Parity Is a Mirage as Challenges Still Remain
Anupma Mehta
July 7, 2021
Opinion | Qrius (online)
Alarming Decline in Child Nutrition Levels in India
Anupma Mehta
January 13, 2021
Opinion | The Pioneer
Insights from the Ground
Anupma Mehta
July 18, 2020
Opinion | The Economics Society, SRCC
Need for Gender-transformative Focus in India’s Education Policy
Anupma Mehta
May 29, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
Women the Biggest Losers
Anupma Mehta
April 20, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
Women in STEM Research in the Age of Coronavirus
Anupma Mehta
March 9, 2020
Opinion | The Pioneer
In Pursuit of Gender Equality
Anupma Mehta
December 30, 2019
Opinion | The Pioneer
Child Marriage: Nothing to Celebrate
Anupma Mehta
November 22, 2019
Opinion | The Pioneer
The Great Water Paradox
Anupma Mehta
August 5, 2019
Opinion | The Pioneer
Now Fewer Women Voters
Anupma Mehta
April 11, 2019
OPINION | The Pioneer
Beaten, battered, brutalised
ANUPMA MEHTA
March 2019
OPINION | The Pioneer
Yes to reservation, no to women
ANUPMA MEHTA
February 2019
OPINION | The Pioneer
Marriage by choice or convention?
ANUPMA MEHTA
October 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
What drives women over the edge?
ANUPMA MEHTA
October 2018
OPINION | Business Standard
Gender gap in land ownership
ANUPMA MEHTA
April 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
End the Politics of Female Exclusion
ANUPMA MEHTA
March 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
Time to Nurture the Hands that Feed us
ANUPMA MEHTA
February 2018
OPINION | The Pioneer
The Female Principle
ANUPMA MEHTA
November 2017
OPINION | The Hindu
No Economy for women
ANUPMA MEHTA AND SONALDE DESAI
March 2017
OPINION | The Indian Economist
Is UBI the USP of this year’s Economic survey?
ANUPMA MEHTA
February 2017
OPINION | The Indian Economist
Has the American Dream Gone with the Wind?
ANUPMA MEHTA
November 2016
OPINION | The Tribune
Laadli races up literacy ladder in Himachal
ANUPMA MEHTA
August 2016
OPINION | First Post
Where are the women? Political power is still a male domain in India
ANUPMA MEHTA
June 2016