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Parameswaran Iyer
The writer is secretary, Ministry for Drinking Water and Sanitation. Views are personal.
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My father, the running Air MarshalSign In to read
October 08,2025 07:08:52 AM
Forty years ago, he led a contingent of 250 on a 220-km run from Agra to Delhi.
Wed, Oct 08, 2025
India’s digital PRAGATISubscriber Only
December 07,2024 04:00:52 AM
This digital ecosystem is transforming how India approaches infrastructure development
Sat, Dec 07, 2024
Ratan Tata’s transformational contribution to Swachh Bharat MissionSubscriber Only
October 15,2024 06:54:07 AM
While Ratan Tata understood the importance of access to sanitation and its impact on the security and dignity of women and girls along with the health benefits for children, his quick decision to walk the talk and commit significant financial resources to the programme was game-changing
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
How Swachh Bharat Mission advanced progress on safety and dignity, health and economySubscriber Only
September 10,2024 07:50:05 AM
The four key lessons of the SBM became known as the four Ps — political leadership, public financing, partnerships and people’s participation. They are now globally recognised as vital for the success of most large, transformational developmental programmes
Tue, Sep 10, 2024
How India has achieved success in national programmesSubscriber Only
April 19,2024 08:00:58 AM
The 4P model — political leadership, public financing, partnerships and people’s participation — has made this possible.
Fri, Apr 19, 2024
Parameswaran Iyer and V Anantha Nageswaran write: Giving data its dueSubscriber Only
February 23,2023 07:15:51 AM
National Data and Analytics Platform enables policy-makers and researchers to exploit the potential of government data
Thu, Feb 23, 2023
CEO NITI Aayog Param Iyer on Budget 2023-24: An infrastructure push for the peopleSubscriber Only
February 07,2023 07:10:54 AM
Focus on physical, digital and social infrastructure in Union budget places people at the heart of policy.
Tue, Feb 07, 2023
Aspirational Blocks Programme: Building blocks of Viksit BharatSubscriber Only
January 23,2023 07:10:01 AM
The programme improves governance by converging existing schemes, defining outcomes, and monitoring them on a constant basis
Mon, Jan 23, 2023
How Direct Benefit Transfer scheme has transformed social welfare in IndiaSubscriber Only
October 19,2022 04:42:54 AM
An enabling policy regime, proactive government initiatives and supportive regulatory administration allowed the private and public sector entities in the financial sector to overcome longstanding challenges of exclusion of a large part of the population.
Wed, Oct 19, 2022
Breathing LiFE into the climate narrativeSubscriber Only
August 05,2022 04:10:42 AM
Parameswaran Iyer writes: Concept of 'Lifestyle for the Environment' enunciated by PM Modi harnesses the power of individual and collective action across the world to address the climate crisis. The time is ripe for India to lead the LiFE movement and mainstream it
Fri, Aug 05, 2022
Can Djokovic settle the GOAT argument in men’s tennis?Subscriber Only
October 08,2021 03:00:54 AM
Parameswaran Iyer writes: As the odds-on favourite to win the Australian Open in January 2022, he could make it to 21 Grand Slam titles and break the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic tie of 20-20-20.
Sat, Oct 09, 2021
Pandemic may be ripe to re-evaluate life and career, put family over workSubscriber Only
August 21,2020 03:48:57 AM
For all those who have had a chance during the successive lockdowns to think about taking an “unconventional” break, my advice is — take it.
Fri, Aug 21, 2020
A journey to Bihar, UP, Karnataka shows that the pandemic’s challenge is being metSubscriber Only
July 22,2020 03:40:08 AM
Activities are now in full swing under the leadership of young “generalist” IAS officers. They have faced truly challenging times during COVID-19 and have come up trumps, as usual
Wed, Jul 22, 2020
During the pandemic, strides made over the last year in dealing with single-use plastic have suffered a setbackSubscriber Only
July 04,2020 03:32:45 AM
If each of the 7.8 billion people around the world had to be inoculated, this would amount to an additional plastic consumption of 400 tonnes. Are we going to wait till the end of the pandemic to effectively dispose of plastic waste, or is the time now?
Sat, Jul 04, 2020
With strong partnerships across the country, there has been steady improvement in supply chains of essential goodsSubscriber Only
May 07,2020 00:38:40 AM
Many supply chain warriors, have stood up to serve the nation in these trying times. Their efforts bear testimony to the fact that the true character of a nation comes out in the face of adversity, and disruption is nothing but an opportunity for action.
Thu, May 07, 2020
Handwashing is a habit that can and must be sustained even after coronavirusSubscriber Only
March 27,2020 00:30:01 AM
In this threat is also an opportunity for the world — to make handwashing with soap the default behaviour and a key public health objective, even after the threat of the virus is behind us.
Fri, Mar 27, 2020
Like Swachh Bharat, Jal Jeevan Mission will benefit the wider economySubscriber Only
February 22,2020 00:46:07 AM
It is fairly clear now that investment in sanitation is actually a facilitator for broader economic, health and social gains. This is the chain of arguments that we encouraged the sanitation ministers of Africa assembled at Addis Ababa to use to bring their finance ministries on board.
Sat, Feb 22, 2020
Swachh Bharat Mission has thrown up six guiding principles, which can be applied to any large transformation schemeSubscriber Only
January 02,2020 03:43:04 AM
A prime minister in the 1980s had famously said that of every rupee spent by the government, only 15 paise reached the intended beneficiaries. This statement symbolised the skew in emphasis on “policy” in favour of “implementation”.
Thu, Jan 02, 2020
Surveys measuring impact of govt programmes have become less reliableSubscriber Only
December 04,2019 00:55:03 AM
When the benefits of government schemes are actually reaching the intended beneficiaries much more than ever before, the incentive to deny having facilities is at its highest. On the contrary, what does the household gain by acknowledging that it in fact does have access to the facility? Nothing.
Wed, Dec 04, 2019
P V Iyer, an unlikely soldier, continues to inspireSubscriber Only
October 30,2019 00:13:48 AM
He took to running, like a duck to water, and regularly ran 10-15 milers early morning. Once, in the dark of an early Delhi winter morning, he collided with a buffalo on Janpath road.
Wed, Oct 30, 2019
In last five years, Swachh Bharat mission has captured people’s imaginationSubscriber Only
October 02,2019 04:00:03 AM
As the states prepare to dedicate an open defecation free (ODF) country to Gandhi@150, it is timely for us to analyse how this campaign became the global benchmark for participatory and transformative development.
Wed, Oct 02, 2019
A jan andolan for waterSubscriber Only
August 17,2019 01:00:08 AM
Proposed Jal Jeevan Mission will be a decentralised, community-managed and sustainable water management scheme
Sat, Aug 17, 2019
What the new Jal Shakti Mantralaya should focus onSubscriber Only
June 18,2019 00:05:18 AM
Just like the country did in the Swachh Bharat Mission, India could lay out a template for other countries on securing national water security by integrating fragmented institutions and making water security everyone’s business.
Tue, Jun 18, 2019
Diving into a revolutionSubscriber Only
January 23,2019 00:08:25 AM
Swachh Bharat Mission has had to overcome a ‘degree of difficulty’ to bring about behavioural change.
Wed, Jan 23, 2019
The evolving role of a secretarySubscriber Only
December 28,2018 03:50:42 AM
Secretaries to the Government of India are playing evolving, increasingly multi-dimensional, roles.
Fri, Dec 28, 2018Journalism of Courage
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