Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Air Traffic Management (ATM) includes coordination of air traffic and the airspace in air traffic control (ATC), airspace management (ASM), air traffic flow management (ATFM). The major purpose of ATM is to secure the effective and safe flow of the aircraft between departure and arrival. As world air travel continues to expand, ATM systems in place are getting overburdened, which requires a big modernization process and international cooperation.
The Gram Manchitra portal is a Geographic Information System (GIS) based web platform developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India. Launched in 2023, it aims to empower rural governance and planning by providing a platform to visualize, plan, and monitor developmental works at the Gram Panchayat level using spatial data and advanced analytical tools.
The National Overseas Scholarship Scheme was started by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, to help students from low-income families from marginalized communities to pursue Master’s and PHD programmes from universities abroad.
As India is home to the largest youth population in the world, leveraging their potential is crucial for the country's growth. This demographic dividend must be effectively channelled with adequate opportunities for both personal and professional development. For this reason, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports plays an important role, focusing on personality development, skill enhancement, and capacity-building efforts to empower youth and promote sports in the country.
When we think of governance, most of us imagine big offices, ministers, and heavy paperwork. But real governance, the kind that touches people’s everyday lives, actually happens in villages, in small meetings under trees, or in community halls where someone speaks up about a broken handpump or an unused ration card. That’s the world of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), and it’s a world that runs on the shoulders of thousands of elected representatives, many of whom are women, first-timers, or people who’ve never stepped into a leadership role before.
Swanath Scholarship is thoughtfully designed for students who often fall through the cracks, orphans, wards of armed forces personnel martyred in service, and students who lost one or both parents to COVID-19
The Government of India has promulgated the Aircraft Leasing and Financing Policy (2021) to position India, especially GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City), as an aircraft leasing global hub. This was prompted by the realization that more than 80% of India's fleet of aircraft was leased from outside the country, leading to a huge foreign exchange outflow and exposure to foreign jurisdictions in terms of law, such as Ireland and Singapore.