While global factors are contributing to heat wave conditions in India, here’s a look at how the built city environment is intensifying the heat stress.
Uttarakhand: Techniques to Manage Traffic and Crowds
An integrated approach for transport, land-use, and infrastructure to overcome major operational issues that comes with fragmented planning to manage traffic and crowds.
Taking Direct Benefits Transfer to The Next Level
With direct benefits transfer’s (DBT) popularity in India, here’s next steps to design an upgraded form - DBT 2.0 - where its full potential is realized.
The Changing Nature of a Civil Servant's Job
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
A Systems Approach to Urban Development
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
How Mental Models Add Value to Civil Servants’ Experiences
How organizing experiences on a network of mental models empowers civil servants to accurately grasp reality and make predictions, thus ensuring better policy design and more effective implementation.
Bespoke Learning: Using AI to Upscale Quality Education
How digital technology buttressed by AI has the potential to empower teachers to deliver state-of-the-art individualized learning to students.
SHGs: Bridging Social Capital for Livelihood Improvement
Strategic approaches to bridge social capital to enable India’s self-help groups (SHGs) to improve lives for income enhancement opportunities.
Understanding ‘The Wonder that is India’
Exploring the zeitgeist underway that has re-ignited the process of understanding information and the educational process to make India a wonder again.
Why Decision Paralysis Happens in the Civil Services
How the mismatch between operating methods and historic hierarchical structures fails to bring together diverse approaches to decision-making.
Getting a Grip on Traffic Congestion in Indian Cities
Historical and contemporary views and solutions on managing traffic congestions in India.
A Way to Rebuild Life After Retirement
Drawing on personal experiences, this article looks at ways of rebuilding your life after retirement.
Promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Police Work
Exploring how AI-driven policing holds significant potential for enhancing law enforcement in India, particularly in crime prevention.
Refurbishing Heat Islands in Indian Cities
Drawing on examples worldwide and planning practices, like those established by Scottish urban planner Patrick Geddes, here are some ways to refurbish the existing urban environment in Indian cities to address the issue of "heat islands".
Carrying Out “Democratic Administration” Using AI
How the AI-driven third wave in India would be a radical revision to our standard assumptions not just about how democracy works but about what democracy even is.
Converting Political Interference to Engagement
'Smart' politics’ means blending administrative ideas with politics. A look at how civil and public officials can work with political leaders, combine sound administrative practices and procedures with development agendas, and deliver on goals.
The Potential of Using AI in Government
A look at use cases of utilizing generative AI (artificial intelligence) in public administration activities.
Civil Servants: Prioritizing the Urgent from the Important
Looking at how working on important matters instead of urgent ones constantly adds real value and meaning of a civil servants’ work.
How to Renew Indian Penal Codes
Renewing Indian penal codes would eliminate the perceived injustice arising from the imbalance where a party with greater resources is better equipped to collect evidence and present a more robust case than the opposing side.
A Way to Build New Cities
The "new normal" is constantly changing, marked by continuous escalation and extreme events. Confronted with this reality, our challenge is to address this "new abnormal".