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.
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.
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).
The Government of India revised its National Urban Transport Policy in 2014 to create sustainable urban transport solutions after following the essential structure from its 2006 version.
India lacks a specific national policy on blockchain for governance, complicating the path forward. This article explores the potential for integrating blockchain into existing e-governance frameworks, drawing on state-level initiatives and global best practices, to propose a policy update that addresses this trust deficit.
NUDM was launched as a new scheme in 2024, under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs along with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,
To revolutionize India's policy research space in the true sense, IMPRESS has to move beyond being a selective academic grant program to being an inclusive national knowledge production machine. As a young researcher, I envision the future of policy innovation occurring in open, diverse, and democratized research environments, not in hierarchical constraints. Visualizing IMPRESS in this way will not only establish it as a funding program, but as a driving force for India's intellectual and socio-economic balance.