Daily Archives: December 18, 2025

Decoding the Role of Law and Policy as Enablers and Drivers of Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar, and Sanchaar in Building a Better Education System and Policy

By Abhishek Jain, Head, Public Policy at Mantra4Change. Introduction: Law and Policy as Tools for Social Change Societies have relied on law and policy not only to regulate behavior but have also served as levers of transformation shaping progress, creating opportunities, correcting imbalances, and steering collective action. Nathan Roscoe Pound3 conceptualised law as social engineering.…

School Mapping as a Policy Lever: Scaling Impact with Evidence-Based Planning

By Abhishek Jain, Head, Public Policy at Mantra4Change. Understanding the concept of ‘school mapping’ School mapping is “a collection of methods and processes used to assess national and local educational demand and service delivery, alongside other important information on education outcomes”.3 One of its earliest uses was in 1963 by the Ministry of Education of…

Mapping the Right to Elementary Education: A Comparative Lens across Instruments influencing Education Policy

By Abhishek Jain, Head, Public Policy at Mantra4Change. Though this piece we have conducted comparative mapping studies of the right to elementary education across the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 (“ICESCR”), the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 (“CRC”), the Constitution of India…