Revathi Ellanki

Centre for Economic and Social Studies | CESS · Department of Economics

This article presents the analysis of trends and contribution in education budget of education cess levied by the union government and discusses its implications for state governments. It is generally contested that vertical imbalance will continue as the union government is making use of certain constitutional provisions such as levying cesses and...

This paper examined the trends in private and public expenditure on education in India during the last seven decades. The analysis is based on public expenditure on education compiled by Ministry of Education, Government of India, that includes expenditure incurred by education department as well as by all other departments on education and trainin...

The paper is based on literature review on sustainability of Farmers' Producer Companies. The FPO movement, which has been around for 20 years, is still in its infancy, with the majority of attention going into the development of under the cooperative and producers' company statutes, of commodity-specific FPOs. The Ministry of Agriculture's Departm...

The study examines the causal impact of adopting alternative rainfed agricultural systems on farm profits using a household survey of around 1100 farmers in Telangana, India. The study uses a multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) model to assess the impact of alternative agricultural crop systems (i.e., conventional vs. millets) on agr...

Empowerment is a process of the powerless gaining power to exercise greater control over the circumstances of their lives. It refers broadly to the expansion of freedom and choices and actions by way of bargaining or negotiation to shape one's life. Empowerment per se results in substantial outcomes in the form of achievements for those having to c...

Women Empowerment in India: Status, Achievements and Challenges

Financial inclusion is not homogenous across India. It varies with levels of economic growth and development, geographical locations-rural and urban, and social categories of population. Labour force participation rates and types of employment also have differential implications for financial inclusion. Gender gap in financial inclusion permeates a...

The role of entrepreneurship in inclusive development of the economy is widely recognised by policy makers and academicians. The present study analyses various dimensions of entrepreneurship among one of the disadvantaged groups in India, namely, the SCs. The study used primary data collected from 162 SC and 60 non-SC entrepreneurs in five district...

According to AISHE 2019-20, the gross enrolment ratio (GER) in the post-secondary education level for India is 27 percent. Such GER is an underestimate because an estimate based on a national-level large-scale household survey, i.e. Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS-3), indicates a higher percent of the same in 2019-20 for the country. The discrep...

Education, as a public good, necessitates state expenditure. As a concurrent subject, it requires co-sharing of financial, regulatory and developmental functions in a federal polity. Public expenditure on education in India is around 4% of GDP. However, analysis shows that only 1% is borne by the Union while 3% is borne by the states together. The...

Education being a public good calls for higher public investment. In India, there is a growing trend towards private expenditure on education. The present article examines the trends of private expenditure on education based on the NSSO-Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) and Social Consumption on Education (SC-E) survey estimates for the period 1986...

The book analyses the soybean crop cultivation in major soybean cultivating states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and newly cultivating state of Telangana. It assesses the impact of soybean technology i.e. varieties and package of practices developed by the ICAR's All India Coordinated Research project and State Agriculture Universities...

This paper draws on the results of telephone surveys conducted to assess the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the young people of two longitudinal cohorts (aged 19 and 26 years old at the time) of the four countries that participate in the Young Lives research programme: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. We first revie...

This paper draws on the results of telephone surveys conducted to assess the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the young people of two longitudinal cohorts (aged 19 and 26 years old at the time) of the four countries that participate in the Young Lives research programme: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. We first revie...

Coronavirus pandemic caused concern to access and quality of school education due to the closure of all educational institutions since the last week of March 2020. This paper is an outcome of the study '‘Interrupted Education in India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana): Support for the students during Covid 19 school closures’, supported by 'Gendered Y...

Objective To provide evidence on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of young people who grew up in poverty in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Design A phone survey administered between August and October 2020 to participants of a population-based longitudinal cohort study established in 2002 comprising two cohorts born i...

This paper while critically looking into the recent National Educational Policy (NEP) of 2020, analysed the educational development in Telangana state and examined the process and challenges in implementing the NEP 2020 at all levels of education in the state.

Objective To provide evidence on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of adolescents and young adults who grew up in poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Design A phone survey implemented August-October 2020 to participants of a population-based cohort study since 2002 comprising two cohorts born in 1994-5 and 200...

Provision of better early childhood learning environment plays an important role in shaping the path of educational attainment of children which in turn help in leading a productive life in future. The students belonging to socially and economically marginalised communities like SCs and STs often face difficulties in accessing better learning envir...

This is a review article of the book - 'Legitimation in a world at risk: The case of genetically modified crops in India, authored by by E.L. Desmond, (2018). Publishers: Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 345 pages. ISBN: 978-981-10-6064-9.

Land Rights and Land Access to Women in Andhra Pradesh

‘Inclusive development’ continues to dominate development discourse and policy debate in the context of many countries around the world, including India. This is not only because of the outstanding issues and challenges of past policies but also because of the emerging opportunities and prospects for promoting inclusive development through ongoing...

This book emphasizes the need for adopting an integrated approach to understand the concepts of subalternity, exclusion and social change in India. It also explores the dynamic relations between these three concepts, instead of treating them as unconnected and discrete social facts. The contributors address some important questions of political eco...

This chapter presents an account of farmers' suicides in the state of Andhra Pradesh starting in 1996. Based on a survey of several studies, it shows that farmers' distress in the state can be attributed to the increasing fragility of resources, particularly the groundwater resources, as well as unsustainable and inappropriate cropping practices, n...

The movement for a separate state of Telangana reflects a longstanding demand for autonomy in social, economic and political matters, a call that has been denied for over half a century even as the region has continued to suffer within the larger state of Andhra Pradesh. Many myths and counter-arguments are being peddled by those wanting to retain...

An oligopolistic market, fluctuating market conditions, inadequate modernisation and the subordinate Status of hired workers have contributed to the poor living conditions of workers in Sircilla, a powerloom centre of Andhra Pradesh. The State and central governments need to intervene in a more organised fashion to end the distress. In the short ru...