Category Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation

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E-Waste (Management) Rules (2022): Assessing India’s Extended Producer Responsibility Framework

India's approach to e-waste has shifted over time, from simply regulating disposal to making producers themselves responsible for what happens to their products after use. The E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016, notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), built this Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, requiring producers to ensure collection and environmentally sound management of e-waste from their products. It covered 21 categories of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE).

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Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), 2024 : A Sustainable Urban Governance Model

Historically, Hyderabad was known as “City of lakes”, it was built with a cascade of interconnected lakes (Golusu Katuu), and storm-water drains (nalas) around the Musi river to store and redistribute monsoon runoff across the Deccan plateau. Following the Musi river floods of 1908, prompted engineer M. Visvesvaraya designed an integrated flood-defense system featuring Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar reservoirs, supported by thousands of catchment tanks (swarajya, 2016)

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PM-AJAY Digitalisation- can technology make welfare delivery more inclusive? 

The Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana (PM-AJAY) was introduced in 2021–22 by merging three Centrally Sponsored Schemes: the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY), Special Central Assistance to Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCA to SCSP), and Babu Jagjivan Ram Chhatrawas Yojana (BJRCY). The merger was intended to improve convergence and the utilisation of resources for the socio-economic development of Scheduled Caste communities.

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Solar Resilience: The Indian Model | Evaluating ALMM and PLI Frameworks

Before the concept of "solar energy" became a focus of governmental policies, sunlight was viewed as currency. Calendars were designed around the position of the sun. Temples were constructed facing the sun and economies would wait for seasonal changes in sunlight. While the physical properties of the sun have remained unchanged. It is the mechanism developed by humans to collect sunlight, and whether or not those mechanisms are owned domestically has changed.

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Global Pravasi Rishta Portal (2020): Strengthening India’s Digital Diaspora Diplomacy

The Global Pravasi Rishta Portal, launched by the Ministry of External Affairs on 30 December 2020, is an initiative to build a stronger and more direct connection between the Government of India and Indians living abroad. It brings together the Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Missions and Posts overseas, and members of the Indian diaspora on a common platform. NRIs and Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) can register on the portal, helping Indian Missions maintain updated information about the overseas Indian community and communicate with them in a more organised and effective manner. It also helps create a structured network of the diaspora, including professionals, business owners, students, and community organisations.

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Tribhuvan Sahkari University (2025): India’s First National Cooperative University

For over a hundred years, India’s cooperative movement has supported grassroots economic life, from village credit societies and sugar mills to national dairy giants. While there are more than 8 lakh functional cooperative institutions involving around 30 crore people across the country, the sector was long functioning without an apex national university exclusively for cooperative management, research and governance. For decades, education and training in the sector remained fragmented in state-level cooperative institutes, regional training centers and general business schools whose curricula seldom corresponded to the distinct ethical, legal and operational realities of user-owned enterprises. 

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Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (2025): Strengthening India’s Startup Financing Ecosystem

Startups in India face a range of finance related challenges which have an effect on their growth and sustainability. Financial constraints are one of the most important challenges in the growth path of startups. Getting enough funding is still a huge challenge, especially for early stage startups that do not have deep track records and collateral. Moreover, the financial stress on startups is combined with high operational costs, regulatory complexities, and macroeconomic uncertainties, which hinder their ability to expand and grow in a competitive environment.

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