INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

Over the years, the Unit has kept up its tradition of incorporating ideas from the other social and physical sciences to understand the critical role played by ecosystems and natural resources in ensuring social and economic well-being, and the importance of this approach is increasingly being recognised The Unit aims to provide solutions and insights on the possibilities and challenges of converg. [...] The aim of the project is to carry out a scoping study to collate primary evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and dietary diversity of migrant workers from the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. [...] It is for these reasons that the project seeks to uncover the overlapping histories of disciplinarisation and laicisation of knowledge in colonial-imperial Asia and the repurposing of the vernacular realms towards the specific demands of these new knowledges. [...] The Indian economy has been doubly savaged by the effects of the peremptory shutdowns and the migrant exodus of 2020, and now by the huge social and economic costs of the major loss of lives in the second wave of the pandemic since April 2021. [...] In analysing these patterns, the project will offer insights on the impact of the economic shutdown/contraction and health crisis on the shifts in the parameters and boundaries of the formal-informal divide through the post-pandemic period for specific states linked through labour supply chains in the Indian context.