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Can you really get women to have more children or less on your whim? Why do some politicians think it’s ok to treat this like a switch? What else can TN put that 17k to use, you know instead of that ‘thai maamam seer’? With the eloquent @sinhadipa in this episode. Link below.
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Does Tamil Nadu’s Thaimaman Thanga Mothiram scheme benefit new mothers or reinforce patriarchal norms? We must stop treating maternity benefits as state gifts and start viewing them as fundamental rights.
Professor @sinhadipa writes
thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu…
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TN's new #thaimaman scheme comes from the "underlying understanding of women as objects of state benevolence, valued for the roles of wife and mother, rather than as citizens with rights"
Sharp column by @sinhadipa on the recent "welfare" schemes
thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu…
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Important Event Update | Work in Transition
Due to unforeseen circumstances, today’s upcoming Work in Transition event, “Work and Welfare,” will now be held online on Zoom only. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… @sinhadipa
Dipa Sinha retweeted
Welfare is not a dole. @sinhadipa and I write @IndianExpress on the need to refocus on rights-based welfare regime as per our Constitutional vision
Hope to see Delhi friends attend this event. We enjoyed putting this volume together and look forward to developing the Centre's work on welfare.
Happy to share the launch of 'Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India' brought out by the Centre for the Study of Indian Economy, Azim Premji University. Contains 18 chapters by 27 authors. Provides a detailed analytical perspective on welfare in India.
cc: @sinhadipa
Why Chandrababu Naidu's Cash Incentives Aren't the Right Response to Demographic Change m.thewire.in/article/rights/… via @thewire_In
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Why Chandrababu Naidu's Cash Incentives Aren't the Right Response to Demographic Change
Like population control measures, incentivising having more children is oblivious to people’s right to reproductive choice or women’s bodily autonomy.
@sinhadipa✍️
thewire.in/rights/why-chandr…
Dipa Sinha retweeted
“It is mostly rice and watery lentils, with vegetables only occasionally. Hardly any nutrients," @sinhadipa tells me.The amount of money needed for a nutritious meal is not available;the cost per unit has not been adequately revised for years. Meanwhile, food prices have gone up
The latest edition of #Dev360, a column I have been writing since 2009.
‘Fiscal consolidation’ is not an abstraction—it is watery dal in an anganwadi, and much more.
deccanchronicle.com/opinion/…
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Cash Transfers For Women Before Elections "What are they compensating for – failure of the economy in creating decent jobs esp. for women, low and sticky incomes and wages, poor quality and access of public services for education, health?" @sinhadipa
thewire.in/government/cash-t…
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Fresh off the press!
#Growth of 2004-11 was as much a story of mass consumption of workers of the informal sector as it is of #inequality and lack of formal #Jobs. Political will matters even under the neoliberal order @sinhadipa and I write for @epw_in
tinyurl.com/3SectorEPW
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Today, 2nd Feb 2026, @ 20 years of #MGNREGA a #mahapanchayat in Jaipur. Women workers from Rajasthan gather under the banner #mgnregaBachaoMorcha to declare their intention to unseat anyone who takes away their lifeline - the #RightToWork . हर हाथ को काम दो , काम का पूरा दाम दो!
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#GenderBudget fell to 8.01% of total budget in 2025–26RE, down from 8.86% in the BE. While it is projected to rise to 9.37% in 2026–27BE, the increase is largely driven by Parts B&C, partly reflecting improved reporting.
#Budget2026 #UnionBudget
@FinMinIndia @nsitharamanoffc
Dipa Sinha retweeted
Comment | The arena of welfare spending has now shifted to the States, while the Centre continues to drive the agenda by legislating and setting norms. #BudgetWithTheHindu
✍️@sinhadipa
trib.al/VEmK88b
Dipa Sinha retweeted
FM Budget Speech: 90 minutes without a single word on employment guarantee, maternity benefits, social security pensions, midday meals, child nutrition, social policy - zero.
And of course, not a single word on children, yet again.
Dipa Sinha retweeted
Very imp articulation on the power & positives of NREGA by a solid economist @upasak_das in today's Economic Times
@roadscholarz @LibtechIndia @NREGA_Sangharsh @sinhadipa
economictimes.indiatimes.com…
Dipa Sinha retweeted
As 2025 comes to a close, @PrachiSalve11 speaks with @pcmohanan, @parakala, Prof Arun Kumar, and @sinhadipa to understand the current state of India’s data quality, periodicity and transparency, and what that means for evidence-driven policymaking in India indiaspend.com/governance/in…
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“It takes two days to repeal an Act that has been in force for 20 years, but we civilians need to give 10 days of notice to register our protest.”
No right to work
No right to protest
But India is still a democracy
scroll.in/latest/1089435/act…
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The manner, timing & the contents of the new VB-GRAMG bill are a cause of concern - no consultation with unions & workers groups. It shows how the govt has rammed legislation as a pattern, says Dipa Sinha in her interview with @Saumya_Kalia
Read it here: behanbox.com/2025/12/18/the-…
