Demography India, Vol 54, Special Issue 2 (November 2025)
Intersecting Inequities: Health and Nutrition Among Vulnerable Populations: A Special Issue of Demography India

From the Chief Editor’s Desk

Demography India, Vol 54, Special Issue 2 (November 2025)
Demography Health and Development: Insights from North-East India

The editorial team is happy to present this special issue of Volume 54 (November 2025) of Demography India. This issue covers a diverse range of topics including breastfeeding practices, barriers to institutional deliveries, family relationships among injecting drug users, rural-urban migration, teenage pregnancy, boat-based health care services which is a special feature of Assam, patterns and predictors of tobacco users, inequalities in health care, family welfare programme in North-Eastern States and dietary diversity. This would help the readers in a holistic understanding of the demographic and health situation in North-East India.

It may be noted that all these papers were presented in the Northeastern Regional Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) on Demography, Health and Development: Insights from Northeast India. The conference was organised Jointly with Shri Ramasamy Memorial University (SRMU), Sikkim, 29-30 May 2025. As is always the case, many papers were presented in the conference. IASP formed a review committee to identify some papers for publication in this special issue on the North-East. The ten papers included here were, therefore, adjudged as the best papers for publication which meet the standards of papers usually published in Demography India.

We express our sincere gratitude to IASP President, Prof. Suresh Sharma, IEG, for supporting the activities of this journal. We also express our appreciation to all our reviewers for their valuable insights and timely feedback on the research papers submitted for publication. We are also thankful to the editorial staff of the IEG for providing support in publishing the journal. With the unwavering support of the demographic community in India and abroad—as well as the collaboration of social scientists working on population, health, and public policy issues—we aim to elevate Demography India to a new height of academic quality and impact. Together, we will shape a journal that continues to serve as a valuable resource for knowledge exchange and evidence-based decision-making.

We would also be happy to receive books and reports for review in the next issue of the journal. If you have published a book or report and would like it to be included in the next issue, you may send two copies to Dr. Priyanka Yadav, IEG.

If you have any suggestions to improve the quality of the journal, you may contact the chief editor at arunk@iitk.ac.in or 4aksharma@gmail.com.

Arun Kumar Sharma, Senior Professor, IIT Kanpur (Ret.)
Chief Editor, Demography India