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).
As the institutional economics framework of Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson posits, a country fails to grow as long as it is burdened with extractive institutions that support stagnation rather than entrepreneurship. For years, India's corporate insolvency environment has been representative of the same kind of stasis. Thus, instead of being able to exit a state of distress through expeditious bankruptcy procedures, many borrowers became trapped within an overly complex web of regulatory delays while the enterprise lost value at every turn due to the fragmentation of various recovery courts.
With the transforming age of technology and globally interconnected world, Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of governance. India is playing a leading role globally in AI research, innovation and responsible policymaking. Thus, AI marks the need of the present.
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.
The Indian Army's indigenisation drive runs through the Army Design Bureau and the Directorate of Indigenisation, set up in 2016 as the Army's own interface with domestic industry, DRDO and academia. Each year, the Army identifies the equipment, spares and ammunition it still imports and draws up a plan to move that list onto Indian production, working through the Ministry of Defence's broader Positive Indigenisation Lists (PILs) and the SRIJAN portal, which together ban the import of a growing catalogue of items past fixed timelines. This yearly exercise is what the Army refers to as its Annual Indigenisation Plan.
India's consumer market has expanded rapidly with the growth of e-commerce, digital payments, online services and platform-based transactions. As the volume and complexity of consumer transactions increase, effective mechanisms for resolving disputes over defective goods, deficient services, refunds, unfair practices and other consumer grievances become increasingly important.
The Ease of Living Index (EoLI) is a Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) assessment tool designed to help Indian cities evaluate themselves against global and national benchmarks and to encourage a shift toward outcome-based urban planning and management. MoHUA launched the first edition on August 13, 2018, describing it at the time as more than just a ranking exercise, an open and participatory assessment combining self-reported data with physical audits of urban metrics, intended to create a baseline for evidence-based urban policy debate (PIB, 2018).