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Policy UpdateSairaj PatilBackgroundPrior to the launch of the Skill India Digital Hub (SIDH), India’s skilling ecosystem suffered from significant fragmentation. Training, assessment, certification, and job-matching services were spread across separate schemes and portals, including the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal...
Policy UpdateAmrutha Lahari KolluruIntroductionA decade in, the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) has significantly changed the landscape of water supply, sewage and septage treatment, storm water drainage and green parks and spaces in India. The scheme’s...
Policy UpdateNinchen TamangBackgroundThe Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) and its successor, the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) form the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) policy framework for acquiring defence equipment and developing military capabilities. Over time, this framework has evolved from focusing...
Policy UpdateVibha SethiBACKGROUND With the rapid expansion of India’s digital marketplace and internet user base, the government required a comprehensive legal framework to secure personal data and govern corporate processing practices. ● Policy InceptionHistorical Context: India initially lacked a standalone data...
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundFor over a decade, India’s principal industrial energy-efficiency instrument was the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme, a rolling, cycle-based mechanism administered by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) under the Ministry of Power. PAT set legally...
Policy UpdateKatyayani SinhaBackgroundFor twenty-one years, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 gave every rural household a legal entitlement to 100 days of unskilled work a year. Its funding was generous to states: the Centre covered...
Policy UpdateAmeya SatamBackgroundNations worldwide are transitioning rapidly from fossil fuels to clean energy sources as global energy policies are changing. Uranium is one of those clean energy sources that is getting a lot of demand on the international level...
Policy UpdateManisha KumariBackgroundThe Accelerated e-Mobility Revolution for India’s Transportation (e-AMRIT) initiative was launched on 10 November 2021 by NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Government of the United Kingdom during the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. The initiative was developed...
Policy UpdateRashi KothariBackgroundThe launch of the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) in April 2016 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoAFW), with the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) acting as the lead agency, marked a pivotal institutional attempt...
Manorama BakshiArjun KumarAs India maps its strategic trajectory towards the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, the national discourse has increasingly shifted beyond economic growth to the broader foundations of human capital. For the country to emerge as a global...
