Policy UpdateAyana N KBackground Graphene is an extremely thin material made from carbon, just one atom thick, yet around a hundred times stronger than steel. It is also flexible, transparent, and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat. Because of...
Policy UpdateGowri KodaliIntroductionThe CHARAK initiative is a targeted corporate social responsibility intervention designed to address specialised healthcare challenges in India’s coal-mining regions. Unlike national health schemes such as Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY which identify beneficiaries primarily through socio-economic deprivation criteria...
Policy UpdatesManisha KumariBackgroundBihar’s 2026 Budget reflects a development approach that combines long-standing welfare programmes with newer priorities such as employment, women’s economic participation, infrastructure, tourism and water management. The state has provided for total expenditure of ₹3,47,589.76 crore in...
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackground:India and Qatar have been sharing a close and mutually beneficial relationship with each other especially in the field of energy security, trade and people-to-people ties. However, this partnership has evolved significantly from the buyer-seller relationship...
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackgroundThe India-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) was established in 2022, to deepen cooperation between India and the European Union in the domains of trade, technology and geopolitics. The Council was designed in order to address...
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackground:Critical Minerals such as Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel, Graphite and rare earth minerals have become indispensable for clean energy technologies, electric vehicles, semiconductors, defence manufacturing and advanced digital industries. Securing access to these minerals has emerged as...
Event ReportP R Madhesh RajThe six-day programme, “Understanding the Nuances of Climate Change in the Indian Subcontinent: Cohort 3.0,” organised by IMPRI’s Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CECCSD), brought together speakers from different academic and professional...
Policy UpdateSamiksha MuskanBackgroundSexual Harassment at the workplace remains one of the most underreported and neglected dimensions of gender-based violence in India. Despite the landmark Supreme Court judgment in Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan (1997) laying down binding guidelines nearly...
Policy UpdateRashi KothariBackground & Structural ContextMicro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) represent the engine of India’s credit growth, industrial expansion, and formal employment generation (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises , 2020; Reserve Bank of India, 2023). However, MSEs...
Nayanshi JainIntroductionIndia’s journey towards Viksit Bharat 2047 will be built as much on the quality of its infrastructure as on the size of its economy. Roads, railways, ports, energy systems, urban networks and digital infrastructure form the productive backbone...
