The Ministry of Tourism has introduced a homestay sub-scheme under Swadesh Darshan and PM-JUGA, offering up to ₹5 lakh to strengthen tribal livelihoods through tourism. It promotes women’s empowerment and cultural preservation while addressing ecological and connectivity challenges via ONDC integration, community ownership models like Khonoma, and Mission LiFE principles.
Click to View MoreThe Economic Survey 2025–26 cautions that unchecked rural–urban migration strains cities and weakens villages through a care drain. Existing schemes fall short. It calls for holistic rural revival by boosting non-farm jobs, local governance, and rural–urban integration to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth.
Click to View MoreNITI Aayog’s Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 is a mission-mode push to achieve 100% saturation in 11 indicators across Aspirational Districts and Blocks. Rooted in Antyodaya, it shifts from incremental gains to last-mile delivery, strengthening equity, governance, and inclusive development.
Click to View MoreThe Cabinet’s extension of Atal Pension Yojana highlights its role in securing unorganised workforce, with strong enrolment and women’s participation. However, inflation risks, low awareness, and irregular contributions persist. Reforms like inflation-indexing, financial literacy, and auto-enrolment are vital to make APY a durable pillar of social justice.
Click to View MoreEarly childhood care and development, especially during the first 3,000 days of life, is crucial for building strong human capital. While India has improved child survival through health and nutrition programmes, holistic development covering cognitive, emotional and social aspects remains underemphasised. Global evidence shows that early investment yields the highest economic and social returns. A universal, integrated and citizen-led ECCD approach is essential for achieving inclusive growth and the vision of Viksit Bharat.
Click to View MoreIndia’s GDP growth, driven by public capex and services, masks weak private consumption, rising inequality, and agrarian stagnation. Overreliance on state spending is unsustainable. Inclusive growth needs revived household demand, private investment, labor-intensive sectors, and stronger human capital.
Click to View MorePoverty in India has evolved from a narrow income-based concept to a multidimensional understanding that includes deprivations in health, education, and living standards. While recent data indicate a sharp decline in extreme poverty due to economic growth and welfare interventions, structural inequalities and vulnerability continue to sustain pockets of deprivation. A combination of inclusive growth, human capital development, and effective governance remains essential for sustainable poverty reduction.
Click to View MoreIndia’s post-Independence economic journey moved from slow, state-led growth to market-driven expansion. The phrase “Hindu rate of growth,” coined by economist Raj Krishna, described India’s stagnant average growth of roughly three to three-and-a-half percent between the nineteen fifties and seventies. However, growth began accelerating from the early nineteen eighties, well before the nineteen ninety-one reforms, as selective liberalisation and industrial capacity building improved productivity. The reform wave of nineteen ninety-one deepened this shift, while the two thousand three to two thousand eleven phase delivered high growth of eight to nine percent. Since then, India has faced moderation linked to global headwinds, financial stress and the pandemic, yet it remains the fastest growing major economy. Thus, India has long surpassed the so-called Hindu rate of growth, evolving from a low-growth economy to one increasingly driven by reform, capability building and structural transformation.
Click to View MoreWomaniya, launched on GeM in 2019, supports women entrepreneurs and SHGs by allowing them to sell goods and services directly to government buyers. It promotes market access, fair pricing, and economic independence by integrating women-led enterprises into the formal public procurement system.
Click to View MoreThe deletion of 2.7 million MGNREGS workers, linked to mandatory Aadhaar-based payments, has raised concerns of wrongful exclusion and erosion of the Act’s demand-driven rights. Critics argue technical errors removed genuine workers and call for optional technology, stronger audits and an inclusive, worker-centric approach.
Click to View MoreA G20 report by the World Inequality Lab warns that India’s wealth is heavily concentrated, with the top 1% holding 40.1% of national wealth while the bottom half owns only 6.4%. It urges G20 nations to impose a 2% global minimum tax on billionaires to curb inequality.
Click to View MoreThe Model Youth Gram Sabha (MYGS) revitalizes grassroots democracy by simulating Gram Sabha proceedings in schools. It offers experiential learning aligned with NEP 2020, combats youth apathy, nurtures leadership, and builds awareness of civic responsibilities, promoting inclusive, transparent, and participatory rural governance for future citizens.
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