In its recent judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that a daughter has the same rights as a son in an ancestral property under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, regardless of when the father may have died. The principle law - the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (HSA) - originally …

(Co-authored with Medha Raju) 

 

In this post, the authors analyse the trends in the revenue, expenditure, and borrowings of the central government in the first quarter of 2020-21, based on the data released by the Controller General of Accounts. They argue that the contraction in revenues …

If the commitment to a fair and impartial system and a time-bound resolution of matters is to be met, the new processes, with reviews and anonymity, must ensure efficiency in case selection and consistency in assessment.

 

An economic contraction this year will deal a severe blow …

(Co-authored with Satadru Sikdar)

 

In Part I of this two-part series, the authors presented their estimates of total budget subsidies, and their merit and non-merit components. In this part, they discuss the relationship between subsidies and the delivery of specific public services, the comparative efficiency …

(Co-authored with Rishab Bailey)

 

The Gopalakrishnan Committee Report does not adequately address governance frameworks around government data sets

 

The Committee of Experts on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework has recommended in their report, among other things, making privately held non-personal data “open”. The …