IMPRI INSIGHTS

Policy UpdateSaachi SaxenaBackgroundClimate policy has entered a new phase globally. For nearly three decades, international negotiations primarily focused on setting emission reduction targets. Today, the challenge is no longer limited to defining ambitious goals but to designing credible domestic...

Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundIndia’s investment-management landscape has traditionally offered mutual funds for relatively standardised pooled investments and Portfolio Management Services (PMS) for investors seeking greater portfolio flexibility. SEBI identified a regulatory gap between these two products: investors seeking more sophisticated...

Policy UpdateArjya Shree PandeBackgroundThe Registration of Marriage of Non Resident Indian Bill, 2019, was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 11 February 2019 by then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. It emerged as a joint initiative of the Ministries...

Policy UpdatePragya RaghavBackgroundThe Global Pravasi Rishta Portal, launched by the Ministry of External Affairs on 30 December 2020, is an initiative to build a stronger and more direct connection between the Government of India and Indians living abroad. It...

Policy UpdateDivya NatarajanBackgroundThe Reserve Bank – Integrated Ombudsman Scheme (RB-IOS) is a cost-free, quasi-judicial mechanism letting customers of RBI-regulated entities take unresolved complaints straight to the central bank. It was launched on November 12, 2021, at a virtual ceremony...

Policy UpdateDolly KaushikThis paper examines the Suvidha portal through the lens of collaborative governance and networked public administration. Traditional models of border management have historically relied on hierarchical control, separating security imperatives from commercial facilitation across rigid bureaucratic silos....

Policy UpdateAmeya SatamIntroduction:On 6th June, 1997, BIST-EC (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand) was created as a regional organization via the Bangkok Declaration (Shetty, 2026). It advanced into what today is known as the Bay of Bengal Initiative for...

Policy UpdateDebjani ChatterjeeBackgroundBefore MY Bharat was launched, India already had several programmes for young people. But these programmes were managed by different departments and organisations. As a result, young people did not have one common platform to find opportunities...

Policy UpdateCB Kavin AdithyaBackgroundThe annual observance of National Space Day on August 23rd serves as a commemoration of a significant national achievement: the successful soft landing of a spacecraft near the lunar south pole. This event represents a substantial...

Policy UpdateAyan BordoloiBackgroundBamboo is a special species in the Indian rural economy and the ecology. Bamboo is a tender healthy grass that grows rapidly and can provide both tensile strength and versatility and is both fast-growing and renewable, supporting...