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Solar Resilience: The Indian Model | Evaluating ALMM and PLI Frameworks

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Before the concept of "solar energy" became a focus of governmental policies, sunlight was viewed as currency. Calendars were designed around the position of the sun. Temples were constructed facing the sun and economies would wait for seasonal changes in sunlight. While the physical properties of the sun have remained unchanged. It is the mechanism developed by humans to collect sunlight, and whether or not those mechanisms are owned domestically has changed.

Ecomark Rules, 2024: Strengthening India’s Framework for Sustainable Consumption

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Policy UpdateSaachi Saxena Background Environmental policy is moving beyond regulating factories and emissions towards influencing what consumers buy and what firms produce. The Ecomark Rules, 2024, represent this shift in India by attempting to use product information and certification as…

Shared River, Stalled Promise: The Mahakali Treaty Revisited (1996)

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The Mahakali Treaty of 1996, formally the “Treaty between His Majesty's Government of Nepal and the Government of India Concerning the Integrated Development of the Mahakali River including Sarada Barrage, Tanakpur Barrage and Pancheshwar Project”, was signed in New Delhi on 12 February 1996 and entered into force on 5 June 1997. It runs for 75 years, with a review mandated every ten years or earlier if either side requests it. The treaty also established a joint Mahakali River Commission to oversee implementation and resolve disputes (Government of India [GoI] and Government of Nepal [GoN], 1996).

Digitalization of Land records – West Bengal

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Land is emotive, social, and intensely political. But it also very concrete, and material. It is
flexible and mobile. There is nothing abstract about land. In being able to physically identify
and demarcate it, while also flexibilizing it and socializing it, land’s particularities need to be
acknowledged and respected. Land as land is worthy of study. Land is central of existence
irrespective of where we are on the planet. Nikita Sud argues that land is not simply the
solid surface of the earth it is best understood as a materially and conceptually dynamic
realm, intimately tied to the social.

Rajasthan Department wise Schemes Update 2026

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Rajasthan, with geographical area of 3,42,239 sq km as largest state and 7.9 crore population as seventh most populous, is characterised by sixty percent Thar desert, scattered habitations, low population density in western districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, tribal concentration in southern districts of Udaipur, Banswara, Dungarpur and Pratapgarh, and high incidence of drought and groundwater stress. These structural features make effective welfare delivery central to state development strategy.

Code on Social Security, 2020: Towards Inclusive Social Security for India’s Workforce

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The global labour market has undergone a fundamental transformation since the 2008 global financial crisis. Traditional employment relationships have increasingly given way to flexible platform-mediated forms of work collectively referred to as the gig economy. In India, this transition has been driven by rapid urbanisation, widespread smartphone adoption and the expansion of the digital economy. Gig work refers to income-generating activities performed outside conventional employer-employee relationships. It includes platform-based work facilitated through digital applications such as Swiggy, Zomato and Uber as well as non-platform gig work, including casual wage labour and freelance services.

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