India faces twin challenges of ecological degradation and soaring fertilizer subsidies. By leveraging the PM-PRANAM scheme, updating Nutrient-Based Subsidy rates, deploying nano-fertilizers, and integrating Edge AI precision farming, the government aims to ensure food security alongside sustainable agricultural practices.
Click to View MoreIndia’s fertilizer sector faces severe fiscal and geopolitical vulnerabilities due to massive LNG and urea import dependence. Reforming distorted urea pricing through Direct Benefit Transfers and scaling sustainable initiatives like PM-PRANAM is critical to ensuring long-term food and economic security.
Click to View MorePradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) provides deposit-free clean LPG cooking fuel to adult women from poor households. Launched in 2016, it aims to reduce indoor air pollution, empower women, and ensure energy justice with targeted subsidies.
Click to View MoreIndian farm subsidies are fiscally unsustainable, ecologically harmful, and distortionary, favoring water-intensive crops and larger farmers. The solution lies in rationalisation, not removal: shift to DBT and redirect savings toward R&D, infrastructure, and climate-smart agriculture to build a resilient, competitive, and inclusive farm sector.
Click to View MoreHonest welfare is vital for true social justice in India. Corruption, leakages, and poor targeting weaken welfare schemes and harm the poor. India must ensure transparency through technology, social audits, and ethical governance so every welfare rupee upholds dignity and delivers genuine, equitable transformation.
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