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Raktima Kalita

Project: Fairwork India

PIs: Balaji Parthasarathy and Janaki Srinivasan

Education:

  • M.Phil in Development and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
  • Masters in Development and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
  • Bachelor’s in Economics, University of Delhi.

Research Interests: Labour Studies, Informal Economy, Development Planning, Ecology, Energy extraction, Urbanisation

Email: raktima.kalita@iiitb.ac.in

CITAPP at IIIT Bangalore is an interdisciplinary think-tank set-up to focus on the policy challenges and the organizational demands made by technological innovation. Of particular interest to the Centre is how technological advances, along with institutional changes that harness the legitimacy and the powers of bureaucracies and market, address the needs of underserved communities.