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The National Single Window System (NSWS) was launched in September 2021 by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, as a digital platform to streamline business approvals and facilitate investment in India. The initiative addresses the long-standing challenge of regulatory fragmentation, where businesses previously had to navigate multiple portals and departments to obtain the necessary clearances for establishing and operating enterprises.
The 12th BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting (LEMM) was held in Hyderabad, India, on 15–16 July 2026 under India’s BRICS Chairship. Convened under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability,” the meeting focused on major transformations taking place in labour markets due to technological change, informality, changing forms of employment and evolving skill requirements. Ministers, officials, and social partners discussed how technological change, informality, and evolving skills are reshaping labour markets.
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).
In 2011, manufacturing still accounted for just over 16% of India's GDP (Government of India, 2011). To reverse this trend, the government launched the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP), with two numerical targets for 2022, raising this share to 25% of GDP and creating 100 million jobs (Government of India, 2011).
Affirmative Action and Empowerment become synonymous when the conversation of Women's rights is brought to the fore. The former cannot be looked into in isolation without the latter. Especially in these trying times as the question of Women’s safety is brought into national cognizance it becomes important to scrutinize the existing policies we have in place for women and how we can better our institutions to changing priorities.
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.