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Governing AI Responsibly : The Safe & Trusted AI Pillar (2024)

As AI systems become embedded in healthcare, finance, education, and governance, the risks they carry algorithmic bias, deepfakes, privacy violations, and opaque decision-making  grow alongside their benefits. The Safe & Trusted AI pillar was designed as the IndiaAI Mission's governance and risk-management layer, ensuring that the capabilities built through the other six pillars develop within an accountable, rights-respecting framework.

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ITEC Executive Courses (2024): Strategic Capacity Building for Global Governance

The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme stands as the flagship international capacity-building platform of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India. Instituted in 1964, ITEC represents one of the world's oldest and most expansive institutionalized frameworks for South-South bilateral development and technical assistance.

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I-MESA: Can social audits improve accountability in welfare delivery? 

Welfare schemes are designed to address social and economic vulnerabilities, but their effectiveness depends not only on the allocation of public resources but also on whether benefits and services reach the intended beneficiaries. The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (DoSJE) works primarily for socially, educationally and economically marginalised groups, including Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Senior Citizens, victims of substance abuse, Transgender Persons, persons engaged in begging, De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs), manual scavengers, sewer and septic tank workers, waste pickers, Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) (Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, 2026). 

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Kerala’s Electric Vehicle Policy, 2019: Assessing the State’s Green Mobility Transition

Kerala was among the earliest Indian states to formally recognise electric mobility as a policy priority. The Kerala Electric Vehicle Policy was notified by the Transport Department on 10 March 2019, with a validity period of five years from the date of notification. The policy was framed around the vision of embracing electric mobility as a tool to promote shared and clean transportation, ensure environmental sustainability, improve energy efficiency, and build a domestic ecosystem for manufacturing EV components within the state.

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Tamil Nadu’s Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thoga (2023): A State-Level Women’s Cash-Transfer Programme 

Tamil Nadu has a long tradition of universal welfare measures, from subsidised food and health care to free electricity and education support. Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai Thittam extends this legacy by placing a regular cash income directly in women’s hands. Announced as part of the DMK’s “seven guarantees” (Business Standard, 2024) before the 2021 Assembly elections and formally launched on 15 September 2023 (the birth anniversary of former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai), the scheme promises ₹1,000 per month to eligible women heads of households (Government of Tamil Nadu Official portal. https://kmut.tn.gov.in/; The Hindu, 2023). 

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21 September – International Day of Peace: Rethinking Peace in a Fractured World

Every year on 21 September, the world observes the International Day of Peace. At United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Japanese Peace Bell stands as a powerful symbol of peace and international unity. Cast in 1952 from coins donated by delegates from 60 nations and presented to the United Nations in 1954 by the United Nations Association of Japan, the bell bears the inscription, “Long live absolute world peace.” Its presence reminds the world to pause, reflect and renew its commitment to the enduring ideal of peace.

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