Category Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

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Kerala’s Higher Education Diplomacy: Analysing the “Study in Kerala” Initiative, 2025

Kerala has long been recognised for its high literacy rate, strong social development, and relatively inclusive educational environment. Yet, the state faces a paradox in higher education. While Kerala produces a highly educated population, many of its students leave the state and the country in search of better academic opportunities. A Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) study found that Kerala, despite having less than 3 percent of India’s population, accounted for around 4 percent of the 1.32 million Indian students who went abroad for higher studies in 2022.

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Global Initiative of Academic Networks GIAN 2.0, 2025: Assessing Global Faculty Engagement, Funding & State-wise Implementation

The Global Initiative of Academic Networks - GIAN was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in 2015. The primary objective of the initiative was to enhance the quality of higher education in India by facilitating engagement of distinguished international faculty in Indian academic institutions. In its initial phase, GIAN primarily supported short-term teaching assignments of 1 to 2 weeks, predominantly in centrally funded institutions such as IITs, NITs, and IISERs. With the launch of GIAN 2.0 in 2025, the program has been restructured to adopt a more comprehensive and outcome-oriented approach. The revised framework places emphasis on sustained academic collaboration, research partnerships, transparent financial management, and inclusive state-wise implementation. Over the past decade, GIAN has contributed to exposing Indian students and faculty to global pedagogical methods, research practices, and academic networks. 

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Building a Healthier Rajasthan: The Economics of Health Assurance

Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar India cannot claim first-world economic productivity while its citizens remain exposed to third-world, catastrophic medical bills. Healthcare shocks routinely force households to sell assets, take on debt and cut essential spending, trapping families in a cycle of…

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Beyond the Health Card: Strengthening Health Assurance in Goa

Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar Goa’s Health Assurance Question India’s health protection landscape has gradually moved from fragmented, state-specific insurance arrangements towards broader public assurance systems. Within this shift, Goa offers a distinctive model. The Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY) is…

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Digital Tourism Platform (2024) and Data-Driven Destination Governance in India 

India’s tourism system has always been characterized - in the language of none less than the Ministry of Tourism’s own task force - as extremely fragmented, where the country’s Central departments, its state tourism bodies, and many private players have operated separate, incompatible data and service-management infrastructure. This diagnosis took official form for the first time in the National Digital Tourism Mission (NDTM) report,

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Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (2016): Assessing a Decade of Safer Motherhood

On 9 June 2016, the Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA), a scheme built on a deceptively simple premise: that if every pregnant woman in the country were examined by a qualified physician and appropriately investigated at least once during her second or third trimester, a measurable share of preventable maternal and neonatal deaths could be averted.

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