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Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool (BMIP), 2026

India's maritime sector plays a vital role in the country's international trade, with the majority of its cargo and energy supplies transported through sea routes. As maritime trade expands, ensuring uninterrupted shipping operations has become increasingly important for India's economic stability and energy security. However, India's dependence on foreign insurance providers, particularly for Protection and Indemnity (P&I) coverage, has exposed its maritime sector to external vulnerabilities.

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Sustainability in Spice Sector through Progressive, Innovative and Collaborative Interventions for Export Development (SPICED) Scheme, 2024 

The spice sector is an important part of India's agricultural trade and food processing as well as rural employment. While the domestic market for spices is large, growing exports requires improvement in quality and compliance with food safety and traceability standards of importing countries. Regulatory requirements of importing countries are constantly changing. Therefore, measures to strengthen the export competitiveness of spices need to be innovative and collaborative. The Spices Board of India, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, launched the Sustainability in Spice Sector through Progressive, Innovative and Collaborative Interventions for Export Development (SPICED) scheme in 2024. The scheme has received an approved outlay of ₹422.30 crore for implementation in the remainder of the 15th Finance Commission cycle, that is, up to 2025-26 (PIB, 2024).

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Nationwide Financial Inclusion Saturation Campaign (21 October–31 December 2026): Bridging the Gap Between Scheme Enrolment and Effective Financial Protection in India 

Financial inclusion is often measured by the number of bank accounts opened or people enrolled in government schemes. However, access to financial services matters most when people can use them to manage financial risks, meet unexpected expenses and secure their future. For households with limited savings, the absence of insurance or pension coverage can make an unexpected event a serious economic setback. Financial inclusion, therefore, should not end with enrollment but should help people build greater financial security.

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Pradhan Mantri Viksit Gram Swaraj Yojana (2026): Strengthening Local Governance and Rural Development

The constitutional framework for decentralised rural governance was strengthened by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, which introduced Part IX of the Constitution and provided constitutional recognition to Panchayati Raj Institutions. Gram Sabhas, regular elections, reservations and the devolution of responsibilities were intended to bring governance closer to citizens and enable local communities to participate in development decisions.

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Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercises (2016):

India's modern HADR architecture traces back to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, when the three Services improvised a joint response involving over 20,000 personnel with no standing framework to coordinate it. The gaps that experience exposed resurfaced in the 2013 Uttarakhand floods and the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir floods, both of which again saw the Army, Navy and Air Force responding without a rehearsed, tri-service drill behind them.

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National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA): 2019

By the late 2010s, states and Union Territories were putting hundreds of services online, but there was no common yardstick to tell which ones actually worked for citizens. Thousands of government-to-citizen (G2C) and government-to-business (G2B) services moved online, a major challenge emerged: fragmentation and uneven quality. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) filled that gap with the National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA). It is a benchmarking framework, formulated by DARPG in 2019, to evaluate how effectively States, Union Territories and Central Ministries deliver e-services. Its core aim is to measure the depth and effectiveness of e-governance service delivery from the citizen’s perspective, and it is based on the Online Service Index of the UN E-Government Survey. The framework is customised for India’s federal structure(PIB, July 2023).

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