Category Policy Update

Digital India Programme 2015: Connecting Every Corner of the Country

The Digital India Programme is a flagship programme launched on 1st July 2015 by the Government of India, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). With its vision of “Transforming e-Governance for Transforming Governance”, it aims to transform the nation into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The programme is designed to ensure that the government services are readily available to everyone, especially to the poor and downtrodden people, through electronic means. The Digital India Programme has been laid out in a structure that creates digital infrastructure, digital delivery of government services, and increases digital literacy across the country. 

(PM-JANMAN): Empowering Tribal Communities through Solar Energy-2023

The PM-JANMAN solar scheme acts as an important instrument that will help tribal communities become active participants in sustainable development while preserving their cultural heritage alongside their ecological knowledge systems as India aims to reach its developed nation status by 2047.

Mission for Cotton Productivity (2025-26)

In the 2025-26 Budget, cotton farmers, who suffer from low productivity, have been provided with a huge relief with the announcement of a five-year Cotton Productivity Mission. The Department of Agricultural Research & Education (DARE) is the Nodal Department, responsible for the implementation of the Mission.

Expansion and Challenges of Medical Education in India:A Focus on Rural and International Migration Trends

The National Medical Commission (NMC) is the primary body responsible for regulating medical education and practice, having replaced the Medical Council of India (MCI) in 2020. Medical schools have been structured in both the public and private sectors. There are 779 colleges across India offering a five-and-a-half-year medical education leading to a university qualification: a Medical Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in allopathic medicine, covering 117,950 seats. Post-independence, India has witnessed rapid growth over the decades, and now India is handling the world's largest medical education system, and private-featured medical education has been evolving over the decades.

Beyond Policy: Unpacking the Evolution of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme’s Development Component (2009-10)

The Integrated Watershed Management Program (IWMP) was launched in 2009–10 after an urgent demand for a unified, landscape-based strategy for natural resource management emerged from these overlapping vulnerabilities.

Strengthening India’s Climate Resilience: Evaluating the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), 2008 and Its Mission Framework

The missions were launched under the broader National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) on 30th June 2008, which was announced by the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change (PMCCC).

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