The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying is an important ministry under the Government of India. It was formed in May 2019 after being separated from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. This ministry is responsible for the regulation and promotion of the sustainable development of the livestock, dairy, and fisheries sectors.
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) launched the ATAL (AICTE Training and Learning) Academies in 2019. The aim was both straightforward but ambitious, helping teachers stay updated so they can, in turn, prepare students for a changing world.
The e-Government Appstore, established under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and Digital India, is hosted by the National Informatics centre under MeitY.The platform allows contributing entities (government/private) to upload applications (subject to multi-stage approval), which can then be searched, reviewed, rated and either invoked as Saas or downloaded for deployment. It hosts core components such as payment gateways, messaging modules, and MIS reporting tools for cross- use across departments.
The Vibrant Gram Sabha and Panchayat NIRNAY portals are key digital initiatives launched by the Government of India to modernize rural governance. Designed to boost transparency and encourage active citizen involvement in Gram Sabha (village assembly) meetings, these platforms replace the old paper-based processes with efficient, real-time digital systems.
The Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Department of Higher Education, established in February 2019. It operates with the main aim of promoting translational, India-centric research in sciences, to be implemented and managed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The scheme functions to support socially relevant research in the following six basic thrust areas – Physics, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Nanosciences, Data Sciences & Mathematics, and Earth Sciences.
The Biotechnology Industrial Training Programme (BITP), launched by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in 1993-94, is a structured, six months industrial training initiative for recent graduates in biotechnology (B.E./B.Tech, M.Sc/ M.Tech, MBA). Administered by DBT-HRD Project Management Unit at RCB Faridabad and executed by Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL)
The EPA signed in 2024 emerged from the context not merely as a recovery mechanism for Sri Lanka, but as a test case for India’s evolving regional economic diplomacy. As someone seeking to understand how bilateral cooperation is shaped by mutual dependency, geopolitical calculations and economic leverage. This agreement offers a timely lens in which to explore the political economy of regional integration. Hence, this article attempts to examine the EPA not just as a policy document, but as a strategic narrative. Critics question whether it reflects a shift toward mutualism or masks deeper asymmetries beneath an ambitious framework.