India Development Review

India has been among the world’s fastest-growing economies over the past decade, averaging around six percent annual GDP growth. Yet the gains from this growth have not reached all. While

In 1997, the people of Dengapadar in Ganjam district of Odisha began building their piped water supply system. There were about 236 households in the village then. Not everyone was convinced that water could actually be piped to every home, and ten families initially chose not to participate. The approach required everyone to be part of the effort, so the village continued di...

India’s aquifers are under sustained pressure. The Central Ground Water Board’s 2025 assessment classifies 730 of 6,762 groundwater assessment units as over-exploited, meaning annual extraction exceeds the annually replenishable recharge. A ...

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In recent years, the distance between ‘we should have a website’ and ‘here is a website’ has become remarkably small. Templates and drag-and-drop builders can produce something polished in a few hours. Open-source platforms have made sophistic...