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Energy Conservation and Sustainable Building Code (ECSBC) 2024: Making India’s Buildings More Energy Efficient and Economically Sustainable.  

India’s building sector is moving into a phase of rapid expansion. Rising urbanisation, higher household incomes and growth in commercial activity are increasing the demand for residential and commercial floor space. India’s building sector is moving into a phase of rapid expansion. Rising urbanisation, higher household incomes and growth in commercial activity are increasing the demand for residential and commercial floor space. NITI Aayog estimates that India’s total building floor space will rise from 17.8 billion square metres in 2020 to 42.5 billion square metres by 2070, indicating that the country’s total building floor space could be around 2.4 times its 2020 level (NITI Aayog, 2026). This projected expansion highlights the importance of improving building efficiency at the design and construction stage, particularly because a substantial share of India’s future building stock is yet to be constructed.

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PRAHAAR and the Platform Governance Gap: India’s Missing Position on Algorithmic Amplification

In February 2026, India released two significant documents within two weeks—the first outlined requirements for social media companies to remove specific content. The second introduced PRAHAAR, the nation’s inaugural public counter-terrorism doctrine. Notably, neither document references the other, even though both respond to the same digital threat environment. While PRAHAAR addresses issues such as online radicalisation, encrypted chat applications, and the dark web, its approach is uniform: monitor, identify, and remove. It does not address a critical question: how does extremist content reach individuals who were not actively seeking it?

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Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Card Scheme, 2005: Beyond Citizenship Benefits

The Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Card Scheme was introduced, in August 2005, by amending the Citizenship Act, 1955, in response to persistent demands for “dual citizenship” from the Indian diaspora, particularly in North America and other developed countries. It was launched during the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in 2006 at Hyderabad and became operational from 2 December 2005 (Ministry of External Affairs, 2022; Ministry of Home Affairs, 2021).

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CHIRAYU (Comprehensive Health Insurance of Antyodaya Units) Haryana (2022): Expanding Access to Affordable Healthcare 

The Comprehensive Health Insurance of Antyodaya Units (CHIRAYU) Scheme of Haryana was launched on November 21, 2022 as an extension of state-specific Ayushman Bharat Yojana by the Department of Health, Haryana Government (Ayushman Bharat, Haryana, n.d.). The rationale behind launching CHIRAYU Haryana was to extend state-level implementation to Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana to ensure healthcare development.

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Green India Mission (2014): Building a Greener Future for India

Forests provide important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, soil and water conservation, climate regulation, and the provision of fuel, fodder, timber and non-timber forest products. They are also an important source of livelihood for communities living in and around forest areas. Recognising their ecological importance, the National Forest Policy, 1988 set the objective of maintaining forest and tree cover over at least one-third of the country's geographical area, while emphasising the need to protect ecological stability and prevent soil erosion and land degradation.

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Consumer Protection (Direct Selling) Rules, 2021: Regulating India’s Multi-Level Marketing Industry

India's direct selling sector, encompassing multi-level marketing (MLM) companies selling wellness, cosmetics, and household products through networks of independent sellers rather than fixed retail outlets, operated for decades without a binding statutory framework. The only regulatory reference point before 2021 was the Model Framework for Guidelines on Direct Selling, issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs on October 26, 2016, following consultations with the Ministry of Finance, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, and select states including Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala.

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