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Manorama BakshiArjun KumarOdisha’s Health Assurance QuestionOdisha has spent the past decade steadily widening the boundaries of public health protection. From the launch of the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) in 2018 to the more recent Gopabandhu Jan Arogya Yojana...
Policy Update Anjali SinghBackgroundPunjab, with a geographical area of 50,362 sq km and a population of 2.77 crore as per Census 2011, is the sixteenth most populous state in India and one of its smallest by area, contributing about...
Policy UpdateShruti ChandraBackgroundCotton plays a significant role in India’s agricultural and industrial economy. The country ranks first in the world in terms of cotton cultivation area with 114.84 lakh hectares under cotton, which is nearly 38% of the global...
Policy UpdateMadhuritha DBackgroundLadakh is a high-altitude union territory in northern India that was created on 31 October 2019, bifurcated from the former state of Jammu and Kashmir after the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act. Geographically, Ladakh lies between the...
Policy UpdateSudeshna DuttaBackgroundIndia is Sri Lanka’s closest neighbor, with a civilizational relationship stretching back more than 2,500 years. Sri Lanka holds a central place in India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and its MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and...
Policy Update Saachi SaxenaBackgroundPunjab is one of India’s major agricultural states and has historically played an important role in national food security. Its economy is supported by agriculture and allied activities, industry, services, infrastructure and a large network of...
Policy Update Karnavi ShendeBACKGROUNDPunjab’s female demographic profile presents a mixed picture of progress and persistent challenges. The state’s sex ratio stands at 895 females per 1,000 males, below the national average of 940, while female literacy has improved to...
Policy UpdatePritha ChowdharyBackgroundIndia’s dairy sector is an important source of rural employment, household income and nutritional security. The country produced 247.87 million tonnes of milk in 2024-25, an increase of 3.58% over the previous year, retaining its position as...
Policy Update Prisha SachdevaBackgroundFoundation models, national compute infrastructure, and sovereign datasets alone cannot sustain India’s AI ambitions without a parallel mechanism to fund the startups building on top of them. The IndiaAI Startup Financing pillar was conceived to fill...
Arya GuptaBackgroundFollowing the National Medical Devices Policy (NMDP) 2023, evidence available by 2024 suggested that the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Medical Devices had successfully encouraged domestic production of complex medical devices, including MRI and CT scanners. However,...
