For decades, the power distribution segment has been a weak financial link in the growing electricity system in India, leading to frequent losses that state governments are forced to dig into their accounts to meet through bailouts, debt takeovers, and subsidy support.
Government purchasing is one of the biggest single levers any economy has on industrial demand, with over 1.6 lakh government buyer entities using the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), (Press Information Bureau, 2025) for procurement where cumulative Gross Merchandise Value reached ₹5 lakh crore before the end of FY 2024-25 (Press Information Bureau, 2025).
Historically, Uttar Pradesh has faced persistent gender disparities, including low female literacy, child marriage and gender discrimination affecting girls. Census 2011 recorded a child sex ratio of only 902 girls per 1,000 boys. NFHS 4 (National Family Health Survey, 2014-15) also reported that 21.1 percent of women aged 20 to 24 were married before the age of 18, while only 32.9 percent had completed ten or more years of schooling.
As AI systems become embedded in healthcare, finance, education, and governance, the risks they carry algorithmic bias, deepfakes, privacy violations, and opaque decision-making grow alongside their benefits. The Safe & Trusted AI pillar was designed as the IndiaAI Mission's governance and risk-management layer, ensuring that the capabilities built through the other six pillars develop within an accountable, rights-respecting framework.
The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme stands as the flagship international capacity-building platform of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India. Instituted in 1964, ITEC represents one of the world's oldest and most expansive institutionalized frameworks for South-South bilateral development and technical assistance.
Welfare schemes are designed to address social and economic vulnerabilities, but their effectiveness depends not only on the allocation of public resources but also on whether benefits and services reach the intended beneficiaries. The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (DoSJE) works primarily for socially, educationally and economically marginalised groups, including Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Senior Citizens, victims of substance abuse, Transgender Persons, persons engaged in begging, De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs), manual scavengers, sewer and septic tank workers, waste pickers, Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, 2026).
Kerala was among the earliest Indian states to formally recognise electric mobility as a policy priority. The Kerala Electric Vehicle Policy was notified by the Transport Department on 10 March 2019, with a validity period of five years from the date of notification. The policy was framed around the vision of embracing electric mobility as a tool to promote shared and clean transportation, ensure environmental sustainability, improve energy efficiency, and build a domestic ecosystem for manufacturing EV components within the state.