The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana : National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is a flagship poverty alleviation program implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Launched in June 2011, it emerged as a restructured version of the erstwhile Swarnajayanti Grameen Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) (PIB, 2024; MyScheme, 2023).
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin was launched on 20th November, 2016 and is a program by the Ministry of Rural Development, implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. PMAY-G aims to provide a “pucca” house with the basic amenities, such as a kitchen and a washroom, to those deprived of proper shelter and living in “kutcha” houses” in rural areas by the target year of 2024. The Scheme has been further expanded in 2025. The PMAY-G addresses the rural housing shortage and bridges the housing deficit in rural areas of India, contributing significantly to the mission of Housing for All. An important feature of the PMAY-G is the selection of beneficiaries. To ensure that help is given to those who are genuinely deprived and to ensure that the selection is completely unbiased and objective, the scheme selects beneficiaries using housing deprivation parameters underlined in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census, 2011.
The Digital India Programme is a flagship programme launched on 1st July 2015 by the Government of India, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). With its vision of “Transforming e-Governance for Transforming Governance”, it aims to transform the nation into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The programme is designed to ensure that the government services are readily available to everyone, especially to the poor and downtrodden people, through electronic means. The Digital India Programme has been laid out in a structure that creates digital infrastructure, digital delivery of government services, and increases digital literacy across the country.
The National Medical Commission (NMC) is the primary body responsible for regulating medical education and practice, having replaced the Medical Council of India (MCI) in 2020. Medical schools have been structured in both the public and private sectors. There are 779 colleges across India offering a five-and-a-half-year medical education leading to a university qualification: a Medical Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in allopathic medicine, covering 117,950 seats. Post-independence, India has witnessed rapid growth over the decades, and now India is handling the world's largest medical education system, and private-featured medical education has been evolving over the decades.
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).
In a bid to create a comfortable and friendly environment for doing business, Jan Vishwas Bill 2.0 has been introduced in the Union Budget 2025-26 speech. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing a post-Budget webinar via video conferencing on “Regulatory, Investment and EODB (Ease of doing business) reforms”, stated that the government is committed to the simplification of regulatory processes and introduced the Jan Vishwas Bill 2.0 to decriminalise over 100 legal provisions which are outdated to achieve greater ease of doing business in the country.