Reetika Khera | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Convent of Jesus and Mary, Baroda, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, University of Sussex, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda |
Occupation | Development economist |
Reetika Khera is an Indian development economist. [1] Khera is Professor (Economics) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi). [2] She was Associate Professor (Economics and Public Systems group) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) from 2018-20. [3]
Reetika Khera received a B.A. in economics from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, an M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and an M.Phil. in development studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. Khera completed a Ph.D. in economics at the Delhi School of Economics. She did her schooling from Convent of Jesus and Mary, Baroda. [4]
She has received fellowships from the Institute for Economic Growth, the Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, King's College London, and from Princeton University (for a project with Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton).
Reetika Khera is a development economist. She was at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, on leave from her post as Sulaiman Mutawa Associate Chair Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Khera is an advocate for improved welfare programs in the country and participated in the campaign to implement India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). [ citation needed ]
Before joining IIT Delhi she was based at the G. B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad University and at the Centre for Development Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. She has published several research papers analyzing NREGA, the Public Distribution System (PDS) and other programs that affect India's most vulnerable citizens. In October 2017, she was in residence as an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center [5] and was nominated for the post (by the Center for South Asia) to edit a book titled [6] on India's Aadhaar program.
In 2021, she won the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award [7] for distinguished contributions to Development Studies. The award was instituted by the Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust in 2000 and is presented to social scientists for their outstanding contributions to the society. The Malcolm Adiseshiah Award was first given to Abhijit V. Banerjee in 2000. Since then, Ram Guha, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jayati Ghosh, Nandini Sundar, Amita Baviskar, Yogendra Yadav, among others, have received it.
Khera has written columns for popular media and been profiled in the mainstream media in India—for outlets such as NDTV, [8] Scroll.in, [9] Wire.in, [10] Outlook India, [11] Financial Times, [12] Reuters, [13] Bloomberg Quint, [14] Quartz, [15] Magnum Foundation, [16] Indian Express, [17] Business Standard, [18] Business Line, [19] Economic Times, [20] Frontline (she wrote the Nov 2016 cover feature [21] ), Business Today (she wrote the Jan 2016 cover feature [22] ) and the BBC. [23] She is frequently interviewed on Indian television in English and Hindi and in alternative Indian media (such as Newslaundry, [24] Counterview.org (she wrote a feature piece on Aadhaar [25] ), Deccan Herald, [26] Livemint, [27] South Asia Citizens Web, [28] Countercurrents, [29] India Together [30] and India Spend [31] )).
In January 2018, her NYT editorial, "Why India's Big Fix is a Big Flub," [32] was one of the most comprehensive public arguments ever made on the limitations of Aadhaar. Khera describes how the program aimed to biometrically register India's 1.3 billion residents in an even-handed, judicious way. But although millions enrolled, the program remains riddled with colossal privacy and corruption challenges.
In her January New York Times editorial, Khera argues:
Aadhaar was supposed to showcase the government’s forward thinking about efficient administration; it has only exposed the state’s coerciveness. It was supposed to ease the poor’s access to welfare; it has hurt the neediest. It was supposed to harness technology in the service of development; it has made people’s personal data vulnerable. One of the Indian government’s biggest banner projects has become a glaring example of all that can go wrong with policy making in this country.
As part of an April 2018 story in the New York Times, Khera highlights how India's poorest classes are among those Aadhaar has harmed the most. Rather than being aided by the program, Khera states that, "This is the population that is being passed off as ghosts and bogus by the government." [33]
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Since 2020, Khera has been a fortnightly columnist for Dainik Bhaskar.
In November 2017, Khera filed a "Right to Information" (RTI) request [34] with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to solicit public data on how much the agency spent to advertise and promote Aadhaar, since the program started in 2009. UIDAI has not commented or responded to the RTI request.
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