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Call for Proposals – Policy Papers on India’s #Telecom Sector ICRIER under the ICRIER and Vodafone Idea Centre for Telecom (InViCT), is inviting proposals for policy papers focusing on critical issues in the telecom sector. Topics include:   ✔️Investments in India’s telecom infrastructure ✔️Rationalizing telecom regulatory levies ✔️Aligning spectrum allocation for new technologies   Funding: Upto ₹20,00,000 per paper Submission Deadline: December 23, 2024 Download the detailed Call for Papers and join us in driving evidence-based policy reforms: https://lnkd.in/g6bXxKHg For any queries, write to mkedia@icrier.res.in. Department of Telecommunications ( DOT ) | Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI)

Only one-third of the #urbanworkforce in India is employed in the secondary sector. While the government's focus has been towards #manufacturing led-growth, the job growth in this sector has been modest with the share of workers falling for both men and women. On the contrary, females have entered the agricultural sector, a sector that contributes less than 20% to India's GDP. For more such insights, download our India Jobs and Occupation Tracker (I-JOT): a quarterly tracker sharing our analysis on the Indian labour market. Link : https://lnkd.in/gHQdvm2z #IndiaJobs #Opportunity #JobTracker #PLFS #LabourSurvey #UrbanIndia Deepak Mishra | Cledwyn Fernandez | Havishaye Puri | Riya Khanna | Anvi Mehta | Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation

Interested to see how #India fares in on various macroeconomic #gender indicators compared to its other BRICS counterparts? Read this article by Havishaye Puri & Nency A. to find out. #16BRICSsummit #BRICSSummit #Russia Shabana Mitra | Anjhana Ramesh | Cledwyn Fernandez | Shravani Prakash | Riya Khanna | Anvi Mehta | Riddhima Gupta

'#CapeTownConversations' organised jointly by Thabo Mbeki Foundation and Observer Research Foundation, on the 26-28th December, exploring critical issues around global governance and development. As the world continues to grapple with complex challenges and evolving digital landscape, ICRIER's Director and CE, Deepak Mishra, presented (IPCIDE) ICRIER Prosus Centre's report on the State of India’s Digital Economy 2024. India’s G20 presidency has brought Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) into the spotlight and its role as a catalyst for development in the Global South. Mansi Kedia moderated an engaging discussion on how countries have leveraged DPIs, such as digital identities and real-time payment systems, to drive institutional change, innovation, and private sector participation.   Tanu Goyal moderated a session on accelerating Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) reforms, emphasizing on critical challenges faced by the global south and the need for amplifying the Global South’s voice under South Africa’s G20 Presidency. Together, these sessions explored actionable pathways for transformative global development. #G20 #DPI #MDBReforms #GlobalSouth #G20 #Sustainibility #SGDs #ICRIER Samir Saran | Marie Lou Papazian | Stephanie Diepeveen | Anagh Singh | Jainaba Sowe | Alison Gillwald | Sárvári Balázs | sait akman | Elizabeth Sidiropoulos | Prosus Group | Prosus Ventures | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | United Nations | DP World

Excited to share latest publication: "MoS₂ for Battery and Supercapacitor Applications" in Springer Nature!   MoS₂ shines as a game-changing material for energy storage, offering high conductivity, large surface area, and remarkable electrochemical stability. This chapter covers:   ✅Synthesis & structural tweaks ✅Electrochemical insights ✅DFT & experimental approaches   Discover how MoS₂ is shaping the future of batteries and supercapacitors: https://lnkd.in/ghtAvmHW   #MoS2 #EnergyStorage #Batteries #Supercapacitors #BatteryTech #SpringerNature

Sajal Jain & Diya Dasgupta from our Climate Change, Urbanization, and Sustainability (CCUS) Team, participated in the ‘Training of Trainers Workshop’ on “Engaging with the Green Climate Fund” held on 28th-29th November, in Dehradun. The two-day event titled “Green Climate Fund Readiness & Preparatory Support – Phase III” was co-organized by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India (MoEF&CC), Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM Bhopal), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (UNDP), and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Ms. Dasgupta delivered a presentation in the session on “Approach and Data Requirements for Adaptation Resourcing and Finance” highlighting the inputs needed for preparing India's National Adaptation Plan (NAP), under the guidance of MoEF&CC. ⁠As part of the training workshop, the ICRIER team also engaged in a hands-on session to develop and present a Theory of Change (ToC) under the GCF, for a sample case study. #adaptation #climatefinance Amrita Goldar | Sarwar A. | Yamini Sant | Prem Surya Dharmalingam | Sunishtha Yadav | Diya Dasgupta | Sajal Jain | Kartik Nair | Anjali Singh, PhD | Somit Dasgupta, Ph.D. | Amit Kumar | Kumar Abhishek | Ritika V. |  Esha Agrawal | Pranav Jha

#SundayReads: India is leading in turmeric production and exports - but our farmers struggle to meet their daily needs and want to shift to other crops. Authors Arpita Mukherjee and Trishali Khanna discuss if the National Turmeric Board can be a solution their latest op-ed, published in the businessline. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gmaqTbmD #TurmericBoard #NationalTumericBoard #SpicesinIndia Ketaki Gaikwad | Kulpreet Freddy Vesuna | Latika Khatwani | Eshana M. | Aahana Srishti

🌾 Excited to share insights from our recent field visits as part of ICRIER's "Getting Markets Right" project in collaboration with #NSE! The Agriculture Policy, Sustainability, and Innovations (#APSI) team (Raya Das, Ranjana Roy) and the NSE team (Shantanu Sharma, Mihi Raravikar) explored the Meerut belt (sugarcane) and Khandoli Agra belt (potato) to look at the value chain, market structure, and price dynamics of these crops. 🔍 Key Observations: 🍠 Potato: 1. The cobweb pattern of potato cultivation led to a glut and low-price realization last year, causing farmer distress. 2. Challenges include the lack of export channels, limited contract farming, and market fees. UP’s potato produce caters to markets in Karnataka, Telangana, and Maharashtra, but structural inefficiencies persist in the value-chain. 3. Adoption of solar-powered cold storage has potential to reduce high rental costs for storage, but several challenges remain for scaling it up. 4. The field visit traces the market inefficiencies in the commodity by focused group discussion with farmers, traders and cold storage owners. 🌱 Sugarcane: 1. Lower yields and a low recovery rate remain significant challenges. 2. While sugarcane’s by-products like bagasse, molasses, and press mud have multiple industrial and agricultural uses, the potential of the ethanol market from molasses emerged as a promising opportunity to India’s biofuel goals. 3. Sugarcane is a water guzzler crop; wider adoption of drip irrigation could significantly boost yields through efficient fertigation. 4. The field visit traces the challenges in sugarcane and by-product’s markets by focused group discussion with stakeholders including farmers, traders, millers. These insights will lead to policy recommendations to improve market efficiencies and enhance farmer incomes. 🌟 #Agriculture #Sustainability #ValueChain #MarketDynamics #ICRIER #Potato #Sugarcane #Ethanol

We've updated our Policy Bank: We’re excited to share an important update on the policy bank, a comprehensive resource developed by the ICRIER Prosus Group Centre for Internet and Digital Economy (IPCIDE) to track policy developments in India’s digital economy. This month, we’ve added new briefs that cover the stages of policy development and provide insights into the current status of Digital Banking, Online Intermediaries, Quality of Service and Telecom Licensing. You can explore these updates here: https://bit.ly/Policy-Bank If your work involves digital policy, this resource will be incredibly valuable. Our team is dedicated to continuously improving the policy bank to ensure it meets your needs, and we’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions. #DigitalBanking #OnlineIntermediaries #TelecomLicensing #QualityOfService #DigitalPolicies #TelecomPolicies #DigitalRegulation Payal Malik | Deepak Mishra | Mansi Kedia | Shiva Kanwar | Bhargavee Das | Saloni Dhadwal | Nikita Jain | Krithika Ramnath | Sruthi Vanguri | Aarti Reddy

DPI-led Transformation | Cape Town Conversations 🇿🇦 Today's session offered an insightful overview of the conditions needed to facilitate the effective handover of the G20 Agenda and its relevant DPI mandates to South Africa. Alison Gillwald was joined by Anagh Singh, Stephanie Diepeveen, Jainaba Sowe and Mansi Kedia in discussions surrounding DPI Implementation in South Africa. The conversation covered risk mitigation, public-private interplays, sustainable funding, and the importance of effective governance and trust frameworks to ensure equitable delivery of #DPI and digital services to countries throughout the African continent. Missed the session? Watch the full discussion on YouTube 🔗 : https://lnkd.in/dRTiqF6K Observer Research Foundation Thabo Mbeki Foundation ICRIER MountTech Growth Fund - Kavachh Open Gambia Network (OGa) ODI Global