Missed our event on Administrative and Policy perspectives on Diversity in Economics with @monkprayogshala and @bahujan_econ? Here’s a short thread about what we discussed with @beena and @tejas yesterday

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“Reduction in #educationalinequality at the primary education stage can have a long-lasting impact and could be the most leveraged investment a society can make.” - Desai, Thorat (2016). But administrative measures highlight gaps in research and outputs in diverse classrooms.

Higher education is important for employability in diverse fields, while #primaryeducation underlines the emotional weight of historical atrocities. #SocialWelfare schools in Andhra Pradesh set an example for schools to nurture talents of children to deserve equal opportunities

77% of girls across schools in Maharashtra are underweight. The number of Adivasis who manage to escape #poverty is the least among all social groups. Marginalized groups all have lower #HDI Indicators, which reflects in their inability to attain better #livelihoods.

India has a targeted budget (SC/ST Sub Plan) and well thought out policies to address inadequacies of #socialdevelopment. But the absence of legal backing to these policies and allocating merely 4.6% of the GDP to education and 3% to health shows the lack of political will.

Insufficient fund allocation:out of the budget of 3 lac cr, 898K crore was given to the Development Fund. Due allocation was 139K crores for Dalits, 77K crores for Adivasis. Under Sec 10A, B only 16K cr reached the community for social welfare, 67k cr went to non-targeted schemes

Policy implementation: separate schools are present but #policymakers and #civilsociety neglect them, due to absence of emotional investment in these communities. The sharing pattern of 60-40 for Education was recently reduced to 10% to the states quoting the 14FC Report.

Instead of relying on govt to annihilate caste-based inequalities, there is a reliance on other private resources.

Privatization of education-related schemes shifts the reservation peg from the public sector, and we see gaps in employment opportunities, allocation of funds & research outputs.

Constant barriers are being created for the youth of impoverished sections from attaining #employmentopportunities. There is a threat to livelihoods and possible redundancy of dialogues to address problems of political and social intolerance regarding inclusive development.

#Stigmas associated with minorities have ironically persisted and made it difficult for them to enter spaces of national & social acceptance. Being viewed as movement organizations instead of professionals in their fields of study has undermined their due representation

The quality of #academicscholarship produced is subconsciously affected as those who do not understand the pervasiveness of the #castesystem generate narrower output. This humanistic aperture sustains and becomes mainstream fodder for the masses.

Join us today for a workshop with @monkprayogshala, @BahujanEcon and @NazariyaQFRG as we continue the conversation about the importance of Diversity and Representation in Economics. Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEud-iupz0sEtRcQNgzSI7cQ7ZFnHU1m9GL