The lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic witnessedan unprecedented baulk in all kinds of work on one hand and highlighted the essentiality of healthcare, relief-care and sanitation work on the other
Approximately 90 per cent of the entire workforce in India is informal, and 85 per cent of the non-agricultural workforce is informal.195 per cent of female workforce participatio…
A recent Panel Discussion on COVID-19 and Young People: Impact and Solutions hosted by PRIA Youth on 2nd May 2020 was a first step in recognizing the issues faced by young people in times of CO…
The human, social and economic costs of occupational accidents and diseases have long been a cause for concern. Modernisation and mechanical innovation has catapulted the rise of chemical, hazardou…
The devastating effects of the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV2019) outbreak have been felt across the world.While impartial in its devastation of Global Health, it has had a disproport…
Informality in urban India is both occupational and habitational. Close to 81 million people in urban India live below the poverty line, and a large number of them live in informal settlements. Usi…
The COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the globe, cutting across all sections of society invarying magnitudes. The pandemic has introduced a new normal for the world whichtranslates into social distanc…
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (NIRDPR) and PRIA International Academy co-convened a webinar on “Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Disaster Preparedness and…
The unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19 has virtually stopped everyone and confined us in our respective residences. It poses challenges in provisioning of health care, food and essential sup…
India, on April 142020,entered the second phase of the nationwide lockdown. The lockdown has been extended till May 3, 2020,to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 pandemic in the coun…