Anshika holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from St.Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai. For her Master’s thesis she studied Kerala’s Gender Responsive Budgeting practices for the year 2016-2017. As a part of this thesis, she also studied the status of women in Kerala and its claim to gender empowerment, including some of its state run programmes for women such as Kudumbashrees. She is currently involved as a Research Associate in the project ‘Ensuring Water Security in Metropolitan Hyderabad: A study of Hydrological settings and Informal Institutional dynamics’ at SaciWATERs.

Email: anshika@saciwaters.org