Policy UpdateKavin Adithya C.B. Background India stepped into the BRICS presidency in January 2026, focusing on resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability. This theme reflects India’s belief in people-centered approach, often summarized by the phrase “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” which means “the world…
Policy UpdateKavin Adithya C.B. Background The XVII BRICS Summit convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6-7, 2025, resulting in the Rio de Janeiro Declaration. The summit’s theme, “Strengthening Global South Cooperation for a More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance”…
India has developed a large number of agricultural and farmer-welfare schemes covering income support, crop insurance, irrigation, credit, infrastructure, and allied activities. However, their implementation often involves different ministries, departments, and delivery mechanisms, creating coordination challenges at the district level. One such challenge is the absence of a single district-level mechanism to coordinate multiple agricultural schemes and services.
Jawaharlal Nehru once described India as an ‘ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and experience had been written, with no succeeding layer ever wholly erasing what had gone before.’ The National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM) - a Ministry of Culture initiative launched in 2017 to translate India's artisanal & village-level heritage into a national database - takes this Nehruvian idea as its working premise (Ministry of Culture, 2026a). After nearly a decade of the scheme running and roughly 97 percent of its village target reportedly covered, making it a valuable case study in the sustained & data-driven implementation of a large-scale rural mission.(Ministry of Culture, 2026b).
India's renewable energy transition has largely been driven by solar and onshore wind. Its long coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) also offer offshore wind potential, which draws on stronger and more consistent wind resources at sea than onshore sites can access. But offshore projects are far more capital-intensive and technically complex, requiring marine surveys, offshore foundations, specialised installation vessels, subsea cables, offshore substations, and dedicated port infrastructure.
Policy UpdateTanisha Background The Land Port Management System cannot be understood in isolation as a 2026 initiative. It is instead the newest link in a policy legacy that has developed over more than twenty years, drawing together three distinct but…