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Green India Mission (2014): Building a Greener Future for India

Forests provide important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, soil and water conservation, climate regulation, and the provision of fuel, fodder, timber and non-timber forest products. They are also an important source of livelihood for communities living in and around forest areas. Recognising their ecological importance, the National Forest Policy, 1988 set the objective of maintaining forest and tree cover over at least one-third of the country's geographical area, while emphasising the need to protect ecological stability and prevent soil erosion and land degradation.

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Consumer Protection (Direct Selling) Rules, 2021: Regulating India’s Multi-Level Marketing Industry

India's direct selling sector, encompassing multi-level marketing (MLM) companies selling wellness, cosmetics, and household products through networks of independent sellers rather than fixed retail outlets, operated for decades without a binding statutory framework. The only regulatory reference point before 2021 was the Model Framework for Guidelines on Direct Selling, issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs on October 26, 2016, following consultations with the Ministry of Finance, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, and select states including Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala.

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Gyan Bharatam: Building a Digital Knowledge Infrastructure for India’s Manuscript Heritage

India possesses a vast and diverse manuscript heritage covering fields such as philosophy, literature, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, arts, governance and other knowledge traditions. These manuscripts are dispersed across libraries, academic institutions, museums, temples, monasteries, private collections and individual custodians, making their systematic identification, preservation and accessibility a major institutional challenge. Government sources have estimated India's manuscript corpus in the range of 5–10 million manuscripts, highlighting the scale of the task involved in creating a comprehensive national inventory (Ministry of Culture, 2026).

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Climate Resilient Brahmaputra Project (2026): Assessing Flood Resilience and Indigenous Community Safeguards (2025–2030)

The issue of flooding is a persistent structural limitation of land, livelihood and public infrastructure in Assam. According to the Government of Assam, approximately 31.05 lakh hectares of the state's total geographical area is prone to flood and an average of 9.31 lakh hectares is affected by flood in Assam every year (6.84 per cent of total geographical area).

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Mukhyamantri Palayan Roktham Yojana: Assessing Reverse Migration, and Rural Development in Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand's migration crisis presents one of India's most acute demographic challenges. Between 2008 and 2018, approximately 118,981 persons migrated permanently from rural areas of the state, while 383,726 undertook semi-permanent migration for employment (Rural Development and Migration Commission, 2018).

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ATAL BEEMIT VYAKTI KALYAN YOJANA (ABVKY) – INDIA’S UNDERUSED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT

The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 insured workers against sickness, maternity, disability and death, but not against losing the job itself. It assumed a worker would hold one job in one factory for a working life, so an insured person could contribute for years, lose that job, and receive nothing from a fund built partly out of their own wages.

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