In 2016, the Govt. of India launched Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana as a part of the Taxation Laws Act 2016 (second amendment). The initial objective of the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana scheme was to ensure tax evaders declare unaccounted money and avoid penalty and criminal prosecution. Through this scheme, the govt. intended to use the deposited black money for the welfare of the poor people.
Launched by the Prime Minister in October 2016, the National SC-ST Hub (NSSH) was established to foster an ecosystem that supports SC/ST entrepreneurs in fulfilling the mandates of the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) Order, 2012. This policy stipulates that Central Ministries, Departments, and Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) must procure a minimum of 25% of their total annual requirements from MSEs, with a specific sub-target of 4% earmarked for SC/ST-owned enterprises.
Mangroves are one of the keystone species that cover 0.15% of the total geographical area of India as per the Indian State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023). They play a vital role in maintaining the biodiversity of the coastal ecosystem. They also act as natural barriers against storm surges, protect the coastline from erosion and help fight climate change by serving as carbon sinks thereby storing blue carbon.
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Here is a wish list of policy reforms that India desperately needs, and will give coherence to what has already been implemented. Some have been promised by the government but have not been delivered. Some merely need to leverage existing policy infrastructure and institutions.
What do you call someone who comes down like a tonne of bricks on ambitious youngsters with career aspirations but crumbles like a cookie in the face of a market-leading company flexing its dominance? The rest of the world terms them bullies. In India, we call them regulators.
Public policy scholar Thomas Dye defined public policy as what governments choose to do and choose not to do. Annual budgets make this definition tangible. They are not merely fiscal documents. They are political and economic statements that reveal priorities, constraints, and institutional intent. Equally important, they reveal what remains deferred. In health financing, omissions often matter as much as allocations.