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Aadhaar Card Issues
Will Aadhar enable better targeting of subsidies or will it create an Orwellian surveillance apparatus?
Foreign Policy Watch: India-Africa
India and the African countries are in news lately, however the ties between the two regions date back to the ancient civilizations. Along with geographical proximity, there are factors such as the cultural connect, colonial past and development hurdles that are more or less common to both and thus bring each other much closer.… Continue reading Foreign Policy Watch: India-Africa
Start-up Ecosystem In India
What is Start up India programme and its mandates? Let's cover the parts in brief.
Roads, Highways, Cargo, Air-Cargo and Logistics infrastructure – Bharatmala, LEEP, SetuBharatam, etc.
All that you need to know about the latest developments in 2015/16 and beyond.
Electoral Reforms In India
PM Modi recently advocated for simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. This has set off the debate over the long pending electoral reforms in the country.
NITI Aayog’s Assessment
The Aayog seeks to evolve a shared vision of national development priorities sectors and strategies with the active involvement of States in the light of national objectives
Financial Inclusion in India and Its Challenges
Financial inclusion entails delivery of banking services to large sections of society, at an affordable cost.
Swachh Bharat Mission
The mission seeks to eliminate open defecation, eradicate manual Scavenging, modern and scientific municipal solid waste management. It also seeks to effect behavioral change regarding healthy sanitation practices, to generate awareness about sanitation and its linkage with public health.
Transition From MDG to SDG: Issues & Concern
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a proposed set of targets relating to future international development. They will replace the Millennium Development Goals, as they expire at the end of 2015.
Higher Education – RUSA, NIRF, HEFA, etc.
In India, education is in the concurrent list, where federal states and the central government share responsibilities. Until recently, legislations in higher education prohibited profit making in the sector. Higher education was defined as a not-for-profit sector.
The UGC under the Department of Higher Education in the MHRD acts as the coordinator as well as prescriber of standards for education in the country.
Skilling India – Skill India Mission,PMKVY, NSDC, etc.
In July this year, Prime Minister launched the Rs. 1,500-crore Skill India campaign, which aims to train 40 crore people by 2022.
Climate Change Negotiations – UNFCCC, COP, Other Conventions and Protocols
The conference seeks to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
Forging an agreement in Paris will take bold leadership. The people of the world look to the leaders of great powers to protect our planet before it’s too late for us.
NAPCC: India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change
Launched in 2008, NAPCC pulled together existing national plans on water, renewable energy, energy efficiency, agriculture etc  into a set of 8 missions. Let's review the performance and recent developments in each of them.Â
