Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Small hydropower is among the oldest and most geographically democratic forms of renewable energy in India, capable of delivering firm, round-the-clock power to hilly and remote regions where the terrain makes solar parks and large transmission corridors difficult to build.
Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar On Raksha Bandhan, threads of silk and cotton are tied across millions of households in Uttar Pradesh to signify care, responsibility, and mutual protection. Beyond these traditional rituals, the occasion provides an important moment to examine what…
Policy UpdateSneha Kohli Background The Khelo India- National Programme for Development of Sports- was launched in 2016-17 and emerged as a unified national framework following the restructuring of earlier sports-development initiatives. The Khelo India programme has been introduced to revive…
The Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) was launched on 6th February 2013, at Palghar in Maharashtra under the National Rural Health Mission, with the aim of identifying health problems in children at an early stage (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, 2013). Its approach was built around the “4 Ds”:
defects at birth, diseases, deficiencies and developmental delays, including disability, with an initial target of screening more than 27 crore children between 0 and 18 years of age (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, 2013).
Policy UpdateTanisha Hooda Background Road accidents remain a major public health and road-safety challenge in India. Delays in reaching hospitals and receiving emergency medical treatment can worsen injuries and increase the risk of preventable deaths. Financial constraints may also delay…
Climate policy has entered a new phase globally. For nearly three decades, international negotiations primarily focused on setting emission reduction targets. Today, the challenge is no longer limited to defining ambitious goals but to designing credible domestic institutions capable of translating those goals into measurable outcomes.
India’s investment-management landscape has traditionally offered mutual funds for relatively standardised pooled investments and Portfolio Management Services (PMS) for investors seeking greater portfolio flexibility. SEBI identified a regulatory gap between these two products: investors seeking more sophisticated strategies could require greater flexibility than conventional mutual funds provide, while PMS involves a substantially higher minimum investment.