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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Centre for Excellence in AI for Education

The Centre of Excellence in AI for Education was announced in the  Annual Financial Statement (FY 2025-26)  with a budgetary allocation of ₹500 crores to transform the education landscape into AI-aided teaching, personalised education and skill development. Five National Centres for skilling in AI, robotics and cybersecurity shall be set up to address the requirements of the industry worldwide in curriculum designing, training of trainers, skill certification and periodic assessments in order to make the workforce of India globally competitive.

Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences (IMPRESS) 2018 

To revolutionize India's policy research space in the true sense, IMPRESS has to move beyond being a selective academic grant program to being an inclusive national knowledge production machine. As a young researcher, I envision the future of policy innovation occurring in open, diverse, and democratized research environments, not in hierarchical constraints. Visualizing IMPRESS in this way will not only establish it as a funding program, but as a driving force for India's intellectual and socio-economic balance. 

Alternate Investment Funds (AIFs) for Startups – Funding India’s Innovation Engine 2016

The Alternate Investment Funds (AIFs) structure, especially via the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS), has become a driving force in fostering India's startup environment. It has effectively gathered substantial local capital, aided more than 1,000 startups, and played a role in job creation as well as regional economic growth.

Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Satellite Towns (UIDSST), 2009

According to the census 2011, nearly 78 million individuals migrated from rural to urban areas. This increase was due to the availability of better opportunities, higher wages, better education and healthcare in the urban areas. This migration along with the naturally increasing population growth and expansion of borders accelerated urbanization.  

Remembering Ambedkar: His enduring vision and India’s constitutional journey

The ideas and ideals of Babasaheb, whose birth anniversary is today, on April 14, still guide and motivate us. But there’s another special date to remember — January 26, the day we adopted the Constitution in 1950. This year, our Constitution turned 75. Whenever we find ourselves at the crossroads of a constitutional dilemma, we find ourselves turning to the Constituent Assembly debates and the words of Babasaheb, hoping that they will guide us in resolving not only our constitutional quandary but also our moral and social ones.

World Health Day-Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures: 7th April, 2025

Every year on 7th April, global health awareness is propagated in the form of World Health Day. It is one of the 11 official global health campaigns initiated by WHO. The day is recognized by various international governments, non-governmental organizations, and other public health authorities.

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