Manorama BakshiArjun KumarOn Raksha Bandhan, threads of silk and cotton are tied across millions of households in Uttar Pradesh to signify care, responsibility, and mutual protection. Beyond these traditional rituals, the occasion provides an important moment to examine what...
Policy UpdateSneha KohliBackground The Khelo India- National Programme for Development of Sports- was launched in 2016-17 and emerged as a unified national framework following the restructuring of earlier sports-development initiatives. The Khelo India programme has been introduced to revive the...
Policy UpdateSudeepti JoshiIntroductionThe Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) was launched on 6th February 2013, at Palghar in Maharashtra under the National Rural Health Mission, with the aim of identifying health problems in children at an early stage (Ministry of...
Policy UpdateTanisha HoodaBackgroundRoad accidents remain a major public health and road-safety challenge in India. Delays in reaching hospitals and receiving emergency medical treatment can worsen injuries and increase the risk of preventable deaths. Financial constraints may also delay access...
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....
