Shailly Arora & Sruthijith K K, CCS Working Paper No.19 (Licenses & Livelihood)

Avih Rastogi, CCS Working Paper No.18 (Licenses & Livelihood)

Nandita Markandan | CCS Working Paper No. 3 (Licenses & Livelihood)

The government enforced control on licenses for barber shops are excessive and arbitrary.

Danish Faruqui & Raghav Sud | CCS Working Paper No. 2 (Licenses & Livelihood)

The systems and procedures for the issuing of auto licenses in Delhi are elaborate and inordinately long.

Mayank Wadhwa, CCS Working Paper No. 1 (Licenses & Livelihood)

Opening a private school in Delhi is bureaucratic and promotes corruption. Involving a colossal amount of paper work, the procedure to open and operate a school is financially expensive and  time consuming.

This essay argues for the State 'contracting out' of production by encouraging industries through clean subsidies, removing red tapism and extending market competition and choice.

Education in India is primarily provided by the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). With the implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), in 2009 private sector participation in the education sector should have increased vastly.

Higher education in India is controlled by the government by regulations that are complex, innumerable and ambiguous. This report comprehensively enumerates policy reforms that are necessary to encourage private institutions of higher education.

This 8 point action plan seeks to create a framework for time and cost effective contract enforcement. India can cut down the number of procedures by 10 digits by implementing simple technological changes such as online service of notice and pro-actively supplying a copy of the judgment online.

The Indian education ecosystem today consists of the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that have helped provide education to millions of children. The enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), in 2009 should have enhanced private sector participation manifold.

Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. CCS has conducted research to understand the causes for the same.

We review whether criminalising cheque bounce cases has been an effective remedy. We also study the penalties imposed in other countries against cheque bounce offenders and analyse their effective implementation in India.

This memo examines the current state of laws and policies that affect bamboo in India, with the goal of setting out a broad framework for reforms that would pave the way for sustainable development of the country’s bamboo sector.

Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. CCS has conducted research to understand the the causes for the same.

Street vendors’ rights to carry on their trade in public spaces, has been the subject matter of debate and discussion in India for a very long time. In fact it has taken numerous judgments of the Supreme Court and High Court to recognize their rights and shape up a statutory regime.

These rules have been drafted with the aim to ensure effective implementation of the Street Vendors Act 2014, keeping in mind the goal of ensuring livelihood freedom to vendors and hawkers and adherence to the rule of law and the principles of natural justice.