IndiaSpend

https://www.indiaspend.com/

Last activity: 29.04.2022

Active

Categories: AnalyticsDataEconomyEdTechGovTechHealthTechInformationMessangerNewsResearch

The Spending & Policy Research Foundation (SPR) will primarily focus on federal heads of expenditure such as education, healthcare,agriculture and infrastructure, among others. We will also study projects, undertakings and state finances periodically.In addition,SPR Foundation will present data points on various economic and social issues of interest, mostly in a visualised format.
We send out weekly newsletters to premium subscribers-contributors as well as hosts information and data on this website. We believe the information and insights will be useful to students, public policy activists, media, data enthusiasts and businesses.
Our headquarters are in Mumbai. You can also find us (IndiaSpend) on Twitter for frequent updates and news !

Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Youtube Email

Likes

37.97K

Website visits

81.7K /mo.

Mentions

Overview

Location

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

Employees

201-500

Phone

+91 22 6650 5867

Founded date

2011

Mentions in press and media 33

Date	Title	Description
Sign up to see	Sign up to see	Sign up to see
Jan 30, 2022	Budget 2022: India's new climate pledges await funding push	India has set ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2030 and 2070, which experts say will take trillions of dollars, access to technology and an overhaul of some sectors of the economy to achieve. For this, our analysis s...
Jan 27, 2022	Rating States Based On Faster Green Approvals Could Weaken Environmental Safeguards Rating States Based On Faster Green Approvals Could Weaken Environmental Safeguards	The environment ministry, on Jan. 17, 2022, introduced a star rating system to incentivise states for quick disposal of environment clearance applications for development projects, which, experts say, will undermine the due diligence that i...
Dec 24, 2021	INTERVIEW: After six months of lending, Sheroes founder explains how tough it is	Eight-year old Sheroes started lending, only to women, via its digital bank called Mahila Money six months ago. Chahal wants to scale this venture to 10 million more women by 2022. Chahal recounts the challenges and how she plans to overcom...
Nov 13, 2021	Countries contributing the least to the climate crisis are feeling the worst of its effects	In this Sept. 25, 2015, file photo, a woman holds her daughter stands awaiting her husband who went to collect drinking water after flood waters enter their house following heavy monsoon rains in Gauhati, India. Anupam Nath, File/Associated...
Jul 26, 2021	Explained: How Surat's Emissions Trading Scheme Works To Reduce Air Pollution Explained: How Surat's Emissions Trading Scheme Works To Reduce Air Pollution	Last week, China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, announced it was opening a national carbon market, a type of emissions trading system. Under the system, industrial units that cannot meet annual government-set greenhouse gas emissi...
Apr 30, 2021	COVID vaccines may take up to 5 months to reach private centres — governments say slots for all adults may open only after 2-3 weeks	The promise of covid vaccines for the 18-44 age group from May 1 onwards looks murky for 2-3 weeks. Delay is caused due to a shortage in vaccine supply. Supply shortage has handcuffed states and hospitals to start inoculations from the give...
Apr 5, 2021	FinMin Claims Major ‘Stand Up India’ Gains, But Where Are The Women-Run SMBs?	Even as there are questions being raised about the efficacy of fund disbursal under the Startup India scheme and the success of the Digital India mission, the finance ministry on Sunday (April 4) said that banks have sanctioned INR 25,586 C...
Feb 16, 2021	Experts feared India’s farming protests would be COVID superspreader events. Poverty, misinformation and a younger population may explain why cases plummeted instead.	Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers shout slogans during a protest against the new agricultural laws, the rise of unemployment and price rise of goods and services, in New Delhi on India, on February 9 Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty ...
Feb 15, 2021	Experts feared India’s farming protests would be COVID superspreader events. Poverty, misinformation and a younger population may explain why cases plummeted instead.	Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers shout slogans during a protest against the new agricultural laws, the rise of unemployment and price rise of goods and services, in New Delhi on India, on February 9 Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty ...
Jan 20, 2021	Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless	The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a large and sustained economic shock to the global economy. In India, the effect can be broadly divided into two phases--the shock of the nationwide lockdown in the months of April and May 2020, and the s...
Dec 17, 2020	Some Indian States With Prohibition Have Higher Alcohol Consumption, Study Finds	Many Indian states have tried to ban alcohol, and achieved different levels of success in doing so. Only this week, Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of the eastern state of Bihar, called for stricter enforcement of the ban he put in place in 20...
Nov 27, 2020	Why an economy-wide net-zero emission target won't work for India	India will not only meet its climate commitments but is also set to overachieve, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on November 22, 2020, speaking at a side event at the 15th summit of the G20 countries. The announcement came just days after...
Nov 26, 2020	As biz takes a hit, the pandemic is pushing women out of jobs in UP	Vidya Kaushal, 22, trained for six months as a beauty entrepreneur before she set up her own salon, ‘She’, in her hometown of Jagdishpur in central Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district. Kaushal, who graduated last year, could have become a teach...
Nov 2, 2020	How the Stalking and Murder of a Woman is Fanning Religious Tensions in India	Adal Singh Rawat remembers the man who shot dead his niece last week, on October 26. Rawat, a resident of Ballabgarh, a small town in the northern Indian state of Haryana, knew of Tauseef as the young man who routinely stalked the daughter ...
Oct 21, 2020	What is gender lens investing? Sangita Reddy, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Nandini Piramal, and Vani Kola share their thoughts	Advertisement In recent years, mainstream investors have been incorporating a gender lens while making investment decisions and have started recognizing the strength of women as a market force. However, a Global Gender Gap Report 2020 by th...
Oct 15, 2020	The COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened India’s problem of malnutrition	According to UNICEF, India is likely to witness an increase in malnutrition by at least 10%. Even before the coronavirus pandemic began, one in every nine people globally suffered from hunger, according to the UN. Advertisement Tens of thou...
Oct 1, 2020	International Day of Older Persons 2020: Over two billion people will be over 60 years old by 2050 across the world	By 2050, according to the World Health Organisation, the population of people over 60 years of age is expected to increase to 2 billion. WHO estimates that 80% them will be living in low- and middle-income countries. And, that’s worrisome a...
May 20, 2019	These Eco-Warriors Want to End the 'Death Sentence' of Climate Change in India	Last month, the streets of London went under a state of siege of sorts. Eco-protestors and warriors occupied some of the most prominent public spaces and launched a rather unusual attack. Some glued their breasts to the streets, while a few...
Mar 15, 2019	India Arrests Players of 'Addictive' Online Video Game	Certain things kind of need to be banned in India: flashing the biggest boner on an unsuspecting world in the form of a pricey AF statue, telling young people to kidnap the girls they like, and the unleashing of wrath on people kissing rath...
Dec 21, 2018	India: Eight get life sentence for lynching Muslim cattle traders	Latehar, Jharkhand – Imtiaz Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy, and Majloom Ansari, a 32-year-old cattle trader, were abducted, beaten and hanged from a tree in Latehar in the Indian state of Jharkhand in March 2016. The two had been walking wit...
Sep 25, 2017	India is failing its infants long before they arrive at hospital	Soon after the death of 70 infants in a tertiary care hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh (UP), made the headlines last month, similar stories began to pour in from across the country. Ninety children were reported to have died in two mont...
Jul 11, 2017	Why Pundalikrao Ukarde does not want to raise cows anymore	In Karmad village of Aurangabad taluka and district, Pundalikrao Ukarde is sowing black gram in his field with a pair of bullocks to help him plough the soil. He is 61 but the hard work doesn’t appear to exhaust him. He has just tilled one ...
Mar 21, 2017	Threat to cashless economy? After demonetisation push, digital transactions recede	The value of digital transactions nationwide declined marginally (1.5%) to Rs 92.6 lakh crore in February 2017 from Rs 94 lakh crore in November 2016 according to representative data (provisional) on electronic payments released by the Rese...
Nov 15, 2016	Rs 14 lakh crore, 22 billion notes junked: What it means for black money	Rs 14 lakh crore or $217 billion -- 86% of the value of Indian currency currently in circulation -- will become useless from midnight of November 8, 2016 as part of the government’s crackdown on black or unaccounted money. Rs 500 notes amou...
Jul 26, 2016	Wild service: A toll-free number helps villagers live with animals	For someone whose cow—valued at Rs 20,000—was killed by a tiger in August 2015, Mahadeva Gowda is calm, as is Shiva Murthy, whose sugarcane crop was trampled by elephants in July 2016, the fifth such pachyderm raid over the past year. Gowda...
Apr 24, 2015	Martyr and cult: Gajendra's death gives identity to distressed farmers	The spectacle of the suicide of Gajendra Singh Kalyanwat – a 43-year-old farmer from Rajasthan — at an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rally in Delhi on Wednesday successfully accomplished what the suicides of scores of other farmers across the count...
	10 AgriTech Startups From Indigram Labs Incubator That Are A Must Watch	Agriculture is one of the most hyped yet untapped sectors with an immense potential to change the current standards of the Indian economy. For long, Indian farmers, who represent a 24.6% (per se Census 2011) of the total workforce of over 4...
	FinMin Claims Major ‘Stand Up India’ Gains, But Where Are The Women-Run SMBs?	Even as there are questions being raised about the efficacy of fund disbursal under the Startup India scheme and the success of the Digital India mission, the finance ministry on Sunday (April 4) said that banks have sanctioned INR 25,586 C...
	Countries contributing the least to the climate crisis are feeling the worst of its effects	In this Sept. 25, 2015, file photo, a woman holds her daughter stands awaiting her husband who went to collect drinking water after flood waters enter their house following heavy monsoon rains in Gauhati, India. Anupam Nath, File/Associated...
	Smuggled kangaroos leave Indian forestry officials mystified	Kolkata, India–Lucas did not make it, but his friends Alex and Xavier did. They are slowly being nursed back to health with a diet of watermelons, bananas, wild grass and fresh water. Alex, Xavier and the deceased Lucas are kangaroos that w...
	Exclusive: Google Backs Mental Health Startup Wysa In Series A Round	Bengaluru-based mental health startup Wysa is looking to raise funds from Google, the company’s filings with the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) confirm. The filings, which contain Wysa parent Touchkin Eservices Private Limited’s articl...
	Healthcare Membership Startup Even Raises $5 Mn From Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund	Healthcare startup Even announced today that it has raised $5 Mn in seed round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Founders Fund (led by Peter Thiel), Lachy Groom, and other investors and operators, including Palo Alto Networks ...

Reviews 0

FAQ about IndiaSpend

When was IndiaSpend founded?

IndiaSpend was founded in 2011.

What has the press written about IndiaSpend?

Parsers VC has collected 33 articles mentioning IndiaSpend, among them “Budget 2022: India's new climate pledges await funding push” (Jan 30, 2022) and “Rating States Based On Faster Green Approvals Could Weaken Environmental Safeguards Rating States Based On Faster Green Approvals Could Weaken Environmental ...” (Jan 27, 2022).

Is IndiaSpend still active?

Yes, IndiaSpend is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 29, 2022.