India’s welfare policy is shifting from expanding access to ensuring affordability, continuity and usage, with clean cooking and Goa’s Ujjwala Yojana offering key insights.
About The Author
Dr. Hema Yadav is the former Director of the Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM) in Pune. With over two decades of leadership in agricultural economics, cooperative governance, and rural agribusiness development, she has driven capacity-building and policy research across India's cooperative sector. Her writing draws on her academic and administrative expertise to analyse cooperative enterprise models, rural financial inclusion, agricultural supply chain digitisation, and sustainable agribusiness governance.
