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#NEP2020 calls for a paradigm shift in the regulatory approach towards learning outcomes. Setting up ASSSA is a milestone in that direction and #Assam is the first state in the country to do so. Happy to be a small part of the big change. @ranojpeguassam @himantabiswa @ngmahanta
Chaired a meeting with the senior officials of the Interim Assam State School Standards Authority at Janata Bhawan, Guwahati. We deliberated on ways and means to improve the standard of school education in Assam by continuous outcome based assessment of schools and students. Advisor to Dept of Education Prof. @ngmahanta joined.
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We are excited to welcome Ms. Indrani Bhaduri, CEO and Head of PARAKH as one of our Panel Speakers at RISE for Viksit Bharat! Join us on 19 June to hear Ms. Bhaduri live! Link - form.typeform.com/to/mF7kx62… #EducationReform #PanelSpeaker #IndraniBhaduri #Parakh #EoOS2026
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We are pleased to announce Mr. Shailendra Sharma as one of our Panelists for RISE for Viksit Bharat. As the Former Principal Advisor to Director Education, Mr. Sharma brings extensive knowledge of public schools & systems. Register - form.typeform.com/to/mF7kx62…
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Limited government is not a weakness. It's a safeguard against tyranny.
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Announcing Shri Gurcharan Das as our panel moderator for RISE for Viksit Bharat. Bringing nuanced understanding of complex issues of the Indian education system, Mr. Das will guide a thought-provoking discussion with our distinguished panelists. @gurcharandas
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India's forests keep shrinking and sustainable management of natural resources is the conversation nobody is having. 🧵 Read more about this - ccs.in/sites/default/files/2… @AmitCTweets @RahulGandhi @parthjshah @LuisMirandaDots
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We've been fighting this fight for a while now. Everyone should join. Capitalism and free markets are the greatest force for good ever, by a long, long way. Nothing else comes close. Why should we be shy about saying this?
I wrote this week's cover leader for @TheEconomist, on what we're calling Gen-Z socialism. We argue: — The me-first, ideology-light interventionism that the new crop of socialists are offering (think: capping grocery prices, freezing rent, wealth taxes) is novel and worth taking seriously. — Free-market liberals are losing the argument. If anything, policies like rent control poll regularly higher than the parties that support them. Zero-sum attitudes to growth and distrust in markets are widespread. — Part of the answer must be to stop apologising. Too much in recent decades, the conversation about capitalism has been framed in a series of caveats and retreats (e.g. behavioural economics, winners/losers of globalisation, inequality, climate). Those critiques usually have some truth, but too much weight on them obscures the remarkable success of market capitalism. — But the centre has struggled, too, to concoct a creative and enticing policy offer. Or even to find remotely charismatic politicians to front it. Especially as AI advances supercharge many of these economic debates, that must change. That, and much more, in the leader here: economist.com/leaders/2026/0…
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Prof #BRShenoy was India's lone dissenting economist who warned against deficit financing and socialist planning in 1955. His ignored predictions of inflation and economic stagnation proved remarkably accurate decades later @CafeEconomics @parthjshah @sanjeevsanyal @APanagariya
Remembering Prof. B.R. Shenoy on his birth anniversary, the lone voice of dissent who dared to stand against the tide when it mattered most. A visionary economist who put truth above consensus. #BRSHENOY #ccsindia
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₹8.3 lakh crore spent on education. Yet only 44.8% of Class 5 students can read a Class 2 text. India's education challenge isn't just about spending. Join us on 19 June as CCS launches the Ease of Operating Schools Index. Read full impact - ccs.in/impact-may-1
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What endurance as Vinesh continues to fight. फ़ौलाद है। Fighting court cases for her right to compete. More power to her.
The #SupremeCourt on Friday allowed wrestler #VineshPhogat to participate in the selection trials for the Asian Games scheduled to be held on May 30, refusing to stay a #DelhiHighCourt order that had granted her relief. Read more: zurl.co/pUijf
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Is anyone in Ministry of Sports listening?
MORE SHAME: now the WFI stops @Phogat_Vinesh from competing in the 53 kg category trials and tells her only this morning on the day of trials that she can compete only in 50 kg category! PURE VENDETTA being carried out against a world class athlete only because she took on the ‘ESTABLISHMENT’. Will anyone from GOI, sports ministry or our sporting fraternity speak up? No wonder we can never be a great Olympic nation: too much politics, too little sport.😡
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INDIA: I never do it again From a shocking article in the ET: (link in comments) Must read! “A former colleague and boss of mine, a British executive who ran our real-estate company through some of its hardest years, watched his close friend go to Arthur Road and decided it was time to leave India himself. “We were doing everything right and by the book,” he told me later, “and we still had FIRs against us and trumped-up tax demands.” He summed up his view of running a business in this country: I-N-D-I-A. I Never Do It Again.” The story has incident after incident of how criminality using the judicial system has entered mainstream corporate India and threatens anyone in a leadership position. This was shocking Take Patrick Casserly, the former COO of Cambata Aviation, who spent three months in Arthur Road jail because his employer had failed to pay around ₹18 crore in service tax. “How can I guarantee the repayment of service tax?” he later told an interviewer. “It’s not my Money. I don’t have that Money.” In my book “Getting Dressed and Parking Cars”, the cornerstone chapter is “Getting Arrested”. In it, I describe how an INTERN downloaded a “trial version” of a file compression program, forgot about it, and which ended in a FIR being filed against me at Tardeo Police Station, Mumbai. I spent 1.5 days in that station. Takeaways: - Being a business leader in India means being a person who can be subject to ANY treatment by the police and courts without logic. - “To do or not to do” is the question one should ask before taking on a leadership role in India Vineet Relia is the author of this article in the ET. #dhandhekibaat : India mein dhandha karna matlad marne ke liye tayaar rahena.
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Many congratulations and all the best @rojimjohn for your responsibility as the Minister for Higher Education, Govt of Keralam...
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🏫Have you wondered how easy it is to operate schools in India? 🗓️Join us on 19 June 2026 as we launch our Ease of Operating Schools Index 👉🏼Register your interest now! #EaseOfOperating #SchoolEducation #EducationReform #ccsindia
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Interested in engaging with education as a field of ideas, institutions, and public reasoning? 💡Apply now to our program Education Thought Leaders Collective! Apply here - ccs.in/education-thought-lea… 🗓️Deadline: 22nd May 2026 #educationreforms #ccsindia #schoolleaders #education

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India’s private schools educate millions, yet legal ambiguity around “profit” and “surplus” continues to shape how they operate. Our new working paper explores the law, limits, and loopholes of for-profit schooling in India. Read now: Link - ccs.in/profit-schooling-indi…
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Good set of facts and discussion with @Saketmisra_ and @AnchorAnandN yesterday on the fuel price hike. The price system and a competitive investment climate are not optional. India must reform!
#FuelPrices | Price hike was necessary, overdue. Prices in India are lower than anywhere else: Rahul Ahluwalia, Director FED There is no other way. PM Modi's vision is not being translated into a reformed. easy to do business india: @Saketmisra_ #Numtarix | @AnchorAnandN
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My latest EAC-PM working paper: "How to do Process Reform: Case Study of IEPFA" (co-authored with @AakankshaArora5). The paper lays out step-by-step how process reforms were implemented at IEFPA over the last one year. As a result, the system is now able to do more approvals in a month than it was earlier doing in a year. Indeed, the backlog will be fully cleared in the next six months. This case study is part of our effort to document government re-engineering efforts so that they can be taught and replicated across the system. eacpm.gov.in/wp-content/uplo…

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