Scrolling, Speaking, Showing Up: The Triple Life of India’s Political Youth
The persistent narrative of youth apathy towards politics has become empirically untenable in contemporary India.
Category Center for Human Dignity and Development
Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers (2016): Issues and Challenges
According to the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, the official and legal definition of the bonded labour system refers to a form of forced, or partly forced, labour in which a debtor or their family agrees to work for a creditor. This condition arises in three ways: first, through debt, loans, or financial advances; second, through customary or social obligations; and third, through inheritance or birth into a specific caste or community, which leads to forced labour. Therefore, Bonded labour has long been recognized as one of the gravest violations of human rights in India.
One Stop Centres, 2024: Strengthening Support for Overseas NRI Women
The One Stop Centres (OSCs) for overseas NRI women were approved only in November 2024 and started being established from 2025. These centres represent an extension of India’s domestic One Stop Centre scheme (also known as Sakhi) to support Indian women facing distress abroad. The domestic OSC scheme was launched on 1 April 2015 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) under the Nirbhaya Fund to provide integrated, immediate support under one roof to women affected by violence in private or public spaces (Ministry of Women and Child Development, 2015; Press Information Bureau, 2024).
Panchayat Advancement Index 2.0 (2023-24): Data That Drives Local Development
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 gave Panchayati Raj Institutions constitutional status, and the Eleventh Schedule lists 29 subjects for devolution to them. Over 2.5 lakh panchayats and about 24 lakh elected representatives now operate under this framework, and women make up roughly half of those representatives. What the system lacked for three decades was a common yardstick for how panchayats are performing. The Panchayat Advancement Index (PAI) fills that gap. It translates the 17 Sustainable Development Goals into 9 localised themes (LSDGs) and scores each Gram Panchayat (GP) on them.
10 October – World Mental Health Day: Raising Awareness, Demanding Action
"The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself." - Dr. George Brock Chisholm, First Director-General, World Health Organization
Swasth Bharat Portal: Building an Interoperable Digital Architecture for Public Health Programmes
India's public health system increasingly relies on digital platforms for service delivery, beneficiary management, disease surveillance and programme monitoring. However, different national health programmes have developed separate digital systems, creating multiple logins, repetitive data entry and fragmented information for frontline health workers (Press Information Bureau, 2026).
Micro and Small Enterprises Scheme for Promotion and Investment in Circular Economy (MSE-SPICE), 2023
Modern production and consumption systems have historically followed a predominantly linear economic model, in which raw materials are extracted, converted into products, consumed and then discarded as waste. This “use-and-throw-away” pattern increases pressure on natural resources and contributes to waste accumulation.