The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana : National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is a flagship poverty alleviation program implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Launched in June 2011, it emerged as a restructured version of the erstwhile Swarnajayanti Grameen Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) (PIB, 2024; MyScheme, 2023).
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin was launched on 20th November, 2016 and is a program by the Ministry of Rural Development, implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. PMAY-G aims to provide a “pucca” house with the basic amenities, such as a kitchen and a washroom, to those deprived of proper shelter and living in “kutcha” houses” in rural areas by the target year of 2024. The Scheme has been further expanded in 2025. The PMAY-G addresses the rural housing shortage and bridges the housing deficit in rural areas of India, contributing significantly to the mission of Housing for All. An important feature of the PMAY-G is the selection of beneficiaries. To ensure that help is given to those who are genuinely deprived and to ensure that the selection is completely unbiased and objective, the scheme selects beneficiaries using housing deprivation parameters underlined in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census, 2011.
Artificial Intelligence has become the game changer that has the potential to transform economies, improve governance and help address critical societal issues. AI is both a technological upgrade and strategic step towards inclusive growth, effective public service delivery and enhancing competitiveness at the global level. AI- based predictive analytics is one such revolutionary technology that utilises data, algorithms and machine learning models to provide predictions of outcomes, forecast trends and support proactive decision-making. From controlling crowd flows in cities, forecasting traffic flow patterns, or detecting disease breakout hotspots, AI- based predictive analytics is becoming a critical piece of technology in India's AI push.
The Digital India Programme is a flagship programme launched on 1st July 2015 by the Government of India, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). With its vision of “Transforming e-Governance for Transforming Governance”, it aims to transform the nation into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The programme is designed to ensure that the government services are readily available to everyone, especially to the poor and downtrodden people, through electronic means. The Digital India Programme has been laid out in a structure that creates digital infrastructure, digital delivery of government services, and increases digital literacy across the country.
The PM-JANMAN solar scheme acts as an important instrument that will help tribal communities become active participants in sustainable development while preserving their cultural heritage alongside their ecological knowledge systems as India aims to reach its developed nation status by 2047.
Sudden removal of longstanding autocrats has become increasingly common at least since the Arab Spring in 2010 when public furore and street anger and popular frustration — combined and engineered with regime change agendas of regional and global powers, led to Ben Ali, Gaddafi and Mubarak’s unceremonious departure from power.