The textile and apparel industry is an important part of India’s economy, contributing to employment, exports and industrial development. However, the sector faces several challenges, including gaps in production capacity, limited integration across different stages of the value chain, raw-material constraints, technological gaps and barriers to accessing international markets.
India's power system is adding clean generation faster than it can store it. Installed generation capacity stood at 520.5 GW on 31 January 2026. The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) projects 1,121 GW by 2035-36, with non-fossil sources rising to about 70% of capacity from about 52% today (CEA, 2026).
India's digital expansion has brought a darker companion: stalking, sextortion, morphed images, fake profiles and child sexual abuse material. By 2018 it was clear that police stations, forensic facilities and courts had not kept pace. Policing is a State subject, and most State forces lacked both trained personnel and the tools to handle digital evidence.
Bharatmala Pariyojana is a flagship highway development programme of the Government of India, launched in 2017 under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). The programme was introduced in response to several structural gaps in India’s highway network. These included the inadequate optimisation of the National Highway network due to resource constraints and the absence of a comprehensive national plan, limited integrated planning for connecting major economic corridors and ports with their hinterlands, persistent congestion points even along developed corridors, and inadequate accident-response infrastructure (MoRTH, 2017).
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).
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.