Policy UpdateHarshita Maheshwari Background According to the 2018 Sample Registration System Statistical Report, India generally had a high share of young people, with 25.9% under the age of 14, 66% in the working-age group of 15-59, and only 8.1% over…
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) was launched in 2015 by the erstwhile Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani at IIT Gandhinagar.
The visionary scheme for rural India, SVAMITVA, was launched on 24 April 2021 (also National Panchayati Raj Day). Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas).
The Ministry of Earth and Sciences(MoEs), launched in 2006, filters multiple scientific disciplines under an umbrella approach, delivering coordinated services for weather, ocean, climate and any geophysical phenomena foreseen. The nation's weather and climate services are operationalised through agencies such as The National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Indian Meteorological Department(IMD), and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (established in 1947) serves as the central agency in health policy formulation, regulation, and implementation in India, its scope encompasses preventive, promotive, and curative services (MoHFW, 2025a).
In the days before, attendance used to be logged manually, thus frequently allowing persons to sign in for others or even change the timing. To tackle this, the Government of India implemented the Biometric Attendance System (BAS).
On 5th March 2019, the Government of India, through the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, approved the implementation of the CPSU Scheme Phase-II.