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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Safeguarding India’s Wetlands: Assessing National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (2013).

Policy Update, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Wetlands and lakes are important aquatic ecosystems that support biodiversity, regulate water flows, recharge groundwater, store carbon, and provide livelihoods to local communities. However, increasing urbanisation, untreated sewage, industrial effluents, encroachment, solid-waste dumping, excessive nutrient loading and changes in land use have placed considerable pressure on India's wetlands. According to the National Wetland Inventory and Assessment, India had approximately 2 lakh wetlands and water bodies larger than 2.25 hectares, covering around 10 million hectares (PIB, 2022).

IMPRI Desk
October 5, 2026

Green GDP and India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission: Assessing the Roadmap to 2030

Policy Update, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Traditional economic growth metrics have long faced criticism for overlooking environmental externalities, resource depletion, and ecological degradation. In India, the conventional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) framework captures financial transactions but treats the consumption of finite natural capital as income rather than capital depreciation. To bridge this gap, the concept of Green GDP has emerged—adjusting traditional national output by subtracting the monetary costs of environmental damage and depletion of natural assets.

IMPRI Desk
October 5, 2026

BRICS Vaccine R&D Centre (2022): Assessing India’s Health Diplomacy with Emerging Powers in the Post-Pandemic Era (2022–2026)

Policy Update, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Insights

The BRICS Vaccine Research and Development (R&D) Centre is an almost imperceptible entity, as it took a long time to establish the institution. Its concept was first introduced during the 2018 Johannesburg Summit, where South Africa offered a proposal for a joint vaccine centre, which was reiterated in the 2020 Moscow Declaration

IMPRI Desk
October 5, 2026

Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act (2016): Assessing the Governance of CAMPA Funds for Forest Restoration in India

Policy Update, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

The development path taken by India for many decades has been plagued by a structural contradiction; that the forest land required for mining, road-building, power transmission, and industry projects was also land that had been pledged to protection both domestically through forest laws and internationally through its Nationally Determined Contribution for sequestration of 2.5 to 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents by 2030.

IMPRI Desk
October 4, 2026

Disaster Risk Transfer Parametric Insurance Solution (DRTPIS) (2024): Assessing Nagaland’s Shift Towards Disaster Risk Financing (2024–2027)

Policy Update, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Nagaland has implemented Disaster Risk Transfer Parametric Insurance Solution (DRTPS), commonly known as DRTPIS, which represents a shift from a mostly public expenditure approach on disaster towards the creation of disaster risk capacity beforehand. The distinction matters. Disaster risk financing is not about not having the rain or flooding or landsliding happen, it's about whether governments have already pre-arranged the liquidity when a hazard occurs that puts the fiscal system under pressure. The programme for Nagaland 2024-2027 is thus an intersection of disaster management, public finance, insurance and climate adaptation.

IMPRI Desk
October 4, 2026

Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion Policy(2016): Assessing Investment, Implementation and Policy Outcomes

Insights, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Economy and Infrastructure, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Industrial Context of Bihar Before 2016

Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion Policy (BIIPP), 2016 emerged from the need to increase the role of industry in Bihar's economic development. The original policy described Bihar as primarily agrarian while arguing that a stronger secondary sector was necessary for inclusive economic development. The policy document recorded that Bihar's GSDP at constant prices had grown by an average of 10.5 per cent annually between 2005–06 and 2014–15, but industrialisation remained an important policy concern. It identified Bihar's location near the markets of eastern and northern India, access to ports such as Kolkata and Haldia, agricultural resources and availability of labour as potential advantages for industrial development.

IMPRI Desk
October 4, 2026

Necessary Step Towards Agricultural Prosperity: The Significance of the Rabi MSP Revision

Insights, Agriculture, Food, Nutrition Security and Rural Development, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

ndia’s agricultural price policy serves a purpose beyond supporting individual farmers: it helps manage the economic uncertainty inherent in food production.

IMPRI Desk
October 4, 2026