Tag: India

Policy UpdateSneha KohliBackground Maternal health remains an important indicator of a country’s healthcare accessibility, quality of medical services, and broader socioeconomic development. In India, barriers...

Policy UpdatePrisha SachdevaBackgroundFASTag is India’s flagship electronic toll collection system, introduced in 2016 to enable seamless, contactless payment of user fees at toll plazas...

Policy UpdatePrisha SachdevaBackgroundBharatNet is India’s flagship rural broadband infrastructure programme, implemented by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications, through Bharat Broadband Network...

Policy UpdateArjya Shree PandeBackgroundThe Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 (Act No. 47 of 2021) was enacted by the Parliament of India to regulate the...

Policy UpdateDivya NatarajanBackgroundThe Udyam Assist Platform (UAP) is a digital registration platform launched by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MoMSME) on...

Policy UpdateAnnika SaigalBackgroundThe Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) is a Government of India initiative launched in 2016 to modernise land record management,...

Policy UpdateSandra MenonBackgroundThe Finance Commission is the statutory body established by the President, according to Article 280 of the Constitution, which determines the formula...

Policy UpdateMannat AbbotBackgroundAgainst this backdrop, the introduction of GST in July 2017 represented a significant restructuring of India’s indirect tax system and created new...

Katyayani SinhaEvery month, millions of Indian workers in the Gulf send part of their wages home to their families. Each transfer is a private...

Policy UpdateAnushree KhareBACKGROUNDAs the institutional economics framework of Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson posits, a country fails to grow as long as it...