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  • Joined: August 6, 2023
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How Far have PM-ASHA and the Price Stabilization Fund Succeeded in controlling India’s Food Prices? (Mission 2026-30)

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When the price of essential kitchen items like onions, potatoes, or dal shoots up suddenly, it acts as an immediate financial shock to millions of households in India. For a lower-middle-class or vulnerable family, a sudden spike in vegetable prices means they have to compromise on health, nutrition, or other vital household needs. Historically, regular food grains like rice and wheat have always had a massive safety net managed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) through the Public Distribution System (PDS). However, highly perishable items—like horticultural vegetables and protein-rich pulses—were left completely at the mercy of unpredictable market forces.

Puducherry Government Schemes: Department-Wise Analysis [2026]

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Puducherry is a Union Territory with a distinctive administrative geography. Unlike most states and Union Territories that form one continuous geographical unit, Puducherry consists of four separate regions—Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe, and Yanam—located along different parts of India's southern coastline.

Effect of Climate Change on Rural Healthcare: Why India’s Health System Must Prepare for a Warming Future

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Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue, it is rapidly becoming one of India's greatest public health challenges. While conversations often focus on melting glaciers or rising sea levels, the most immediate impacts are being felt in villages where healthcare systems are already stretched. Heatwaves, floods, erratic monsoons, air pollution, and changing disease patterns are placing unprecedented pressure on rural health services, threatening decades of progress in maternal and child health, infectious disease control, and primary healthcare.

The New Currency of Power: How Critical Minerals Are Reshaping India’s Economic Diplomacy.

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Dolly Kaushik The next contest over strategic power may not be fought over oil alone. Increasingly, it is being shaped by lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements – the minerals behind electric vehicles, renewable energy, electronics and defence systems.…

Mapping India’s State wise Old-Age Pension Schemes

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Old-age pensions are one of the oldest tools of social protection anywhere. In India it sits at the crosshairs of elderly poverty relief and dignity. The Union government's main instrument is the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) which is run by the Ministry of Rural Development. It has operated since 1995 and today comprises five components - the largest is the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS). IGNOAPS was introduced in 2007 (NSAP, 1995). IGNOAPS offers Below Poverty Line citizens aged 60 and above a monthly pension of ₹200 and which further becomes ₹500 after the recipient turns 80 years old (NSAP, 1995).

Kerala Department wise Schemes Update 2026

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Policy UpdatePragya Raghav Background Kerala’s welfare delivery operates in a state where geography, demography and social needs make reaching people effectively particularly important. Spread across 38,863 sq km and home to nearly 3.6 crore people, Kerala combines a densely populated…

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