Policy UpdateMannat AbbotBackgroundUttar Pradesh, with a geographical area of 2,40,928 sq km and a projected population of around 23.8 crore, is India’s most populous state and one of its most densely populated. The state is characterised by the fertile...
Tikender Singh PanwarOn the morning of August 26, a wall of ice, rock and water tore down from Langtang-Lirung through the Bhotekoshi valley into Nepal and Tibet. Villages vanished. Bridges that had stood for generations were gone within minutes....
Policy UpdateRitobrata PurkayasthaBackgroundThe launch of the Biopharma SHAKTI (Strategy for Healthcare Advancement through Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation) scheme in the Union Budget 2026–27 marks a decisive structural pivot in India’s health-industrial policy. Backed by an outlay of ₹10,000 crore...
Vibha SethiBackground India’s export architecture has historically remained concentrated within prominent industrial clusters and metropolitan port cities, leaving the vast economic potential of its interior districts largely underutilized. To address this structural imbalance and drive grassroots economic formalization, the One...
Tikendar Singh PanwarEducation is not a factory floor; a campus without politics produces obedient labour, not democratic citizens.In the elections to the State Assemblies of Keralam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, one emerging pattern...
Policy UpdatePurbaa JagannathBackgroundElectricity is a concurrent-list subject in India, and the framework for national-level power sector planning was laid down by the Electricity Act, 2003, which mandates the Central Government to formulate a National Electricity Policy (NEP) in consultation...
Aravind UnniShalini SinhaEvery year, over 450 million workers, many of them migrants, engaged in agriculture, construction, street vending, sanitation, and transport are exposed to dangerous heat levels. Now that India has notified heat as a disaster, its success...
Anil TrigunayatThe grammar of the West Asia war is changing yet again. While on the battlefront Iran may have comparatively lost in grey-zone warfare, it has been perceived as a winner, even if in wars there are only losers,...
Mecca Agreement complicates India’s strategic calculus at a time when its key partners are caught in competing conflicts and alliancesInsightsAnil TrigunayatIt is ironic that all of India’s strategic partners are engaged in devastating warfare, adversely impacting her well-being, directly...
Policy Update Manisha KumariBackgroundThe Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) was introduced in February 2009 as a component of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) to provide basic financial support to persons with severe or multiple disabilities belonging...
