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With better provisioning of social protection, skills training, and improved workplace safety, the construction sector has the potential to absorb more women, especially migrants, into productive paid work. Piece by Divya Ravindranath and me in The Hindu today.

Goal of policymaking should be to bring out the best possible outcome(s) and not avert the worst possible outcome(s) or keep plugging holes. Sadly most policymaking is the latter or worse - decision paralysis.

A shoutout to all policy scholars! Submit your papers to the IPPN conference. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Every year, throngs of seasonal migrants into Ahmedabad are a stark reminder of everything wrong with employment and social protection policies.

Inefficiencies every step of the way at Mumbai Airport - congested runway, congested elevators, congested parking lot, dysfunctional FASTag gantries. 40 mins to exit after baggage collection.

Slow but steady segregation of Mumbai neighborhoods on religious lines is disturbing. Thought it was only an Ahmedabad phenomenon but blatant advertisements by developers about a certain place of worship within premises is the new norm in traditionally diverse neighborhoods :(

Most Indian cities are not walking-friendly, biking-friendly, and driving-friendly. Next time a city administrator makes tall smart city claims ask if they can fix these basic requirements of a liveable city. Smart-waart baad mein!

The biggest sham of our times is flexible work arrangements and WFH. It essentially means no boundaries, mental overload, and no downtime.

True that! In large families in particular, much of women's time (and a major part of their life) in spent on planning and preparing meals as per "interests" of multiple family members.

Exactly! A policy revamp is required that addresses both public service reforms and sustainability of current social security policies.

The thing about being a Mumbaikar living in another city is that we do not buy "it was raining so we couldn't come to work" excuse that easily. Unless the world comes to an end (aka local trains are halted), you just show up!

I really wish that Amdavadis would follow the lane discipline that they do on garba grounds on actual roads.