Kavya Iyer
Senior Data Journalist
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About
IIT Bombay CS graduate turned policy researcher, Kavya leads NT's data journalism vertical. She pioneered NT's Budget Tracker which visualises ₹47 lakh crore in allocations across 89 ministries. Her work on healthcare underspend has been cited in Rajya Sabha debates.
Credentials & Background
IIT Bombay (CS, 2014). Founding member of NT Data Desk. Two data journalism fellowships.
Recent Pieces by Kavya
Budget allocation gaps — a data deep-dive into 28 states
State-by-state breakdown of where Union money was promised, where it arrived, and the 12 states with the largest shortfalls.
PMJAY hospitalisations: the data behind the 7.4 crore figure
The government's headline number is real — but what does it actually include? We separated genuine hospitalisations from OPD claims.
Which MPs actually ask questions in Parliament?
We analysed 3,200 questions from the last monsoon session. Bottom 20% asked zero questions across the entire session.