Keshav SahaniOver the past two decades, India has significantly improved various maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) service indicators. Institutional deliveries, antenatal check-up coverage, immunisation rates, and postnatal care have all shown a sharp and consistent upward trend. However,...
Policy UpdateAditi Bisht Image Source: The Diplomatist OverviewIndia and Mexico have a long history of relationship, based on historical, cultural, and economic similarities. Both nations have varying geo-climatic conditions, rich diversity, and a similar civilizational legacy. Diplomatic relations were created between...
Policy UpdateMuskan ThakurBackgroundThe National Crop Insurance Portal (NCIP) was developed as the digital interface for the flagship crop-insurance scheme Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare. The PMFBY was launched in 2016 to...
Mahera Imam Introduction The rapid expansion of digital technologies in India has opened up unprecedented opportunities for women in education, employment, financial inclusion and political participation. Yet these same technologies have also created new sites for control, humiliation and violence. Smartphones...
Uvais Nalakath ArakkalThe enactment of India’s Mental Healthcare Act (2017) by the Indian Parliament on April 7, 2017, heralded a transformative, rights-based paradigm shift in the delivery of mental healthcare. The act unequivocally asserts that access to high-quality mental...
Policy UpdateDevshi Satish MishraBackgroundThe Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was founded in December 1992 to follow up on the progress of Agenda 21 (an action plan for Sustainable Development) and other associated accords, including the Rio Declaration on Environment...
TK ArunTwo years and two days after the terrorist attack by Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip that killed around 1,200 Israelis, and the beginning of Israel’s brutal retaliation, that leading genocide scholars and a UN Commission have labelled...
Policy UpdateAditi BishtBackgroundIndia and Germany are celebrating their strategic partnership, which has been over 25 years long, and recently started cooperating in defence and dual use technologies more than before. The world is getting more and more uncertain—due to...
Policy UpdateAditi Singh KaushikBackground:Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana (PM- AJAY) is a scheme launched by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India in 2021- 22. As a centrally sponsored initiative, it has been launched and...
Policy UpdateRiya Singh BackgroundThe Make in India campaign is a paradigm change in the Indian economic policy that was launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in September 2014. It was at this very critical juncture when the world was...
