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Event
AI for Good global summit
Identifying innovative AI applications to solve global challenges08-11 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
For details please visit: https://cuts-international.org/ai-for-good-global-summit/
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CUTS reporting on 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection
07-11 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
For complete report, please visit: 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection | CUTS International – Consumer Unity & Trust Society
Hindustan Times, June 25, 2025
The rural development ministry called it a “significant step towards realising the vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047 and fast-tracking the Lakhpati Didi mission, Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission .”
The Economic Times, June 20, 2025
The ministry of skills development and entrepreneurship proposes to tweak the definition of skilling to align with international standards while suggesting financial and non-financial incentives for all stakeholders to undertake large-scale, outcome-oriented skilling with emphasis on enhanced quality and employability.
The Indian Express, June 17, 2025
Marking a major shift in power within NITI Aayog, key security, infrastructure, and energy ministries have been moved under former Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, who was appointed full-time Member on March 25, documents accessed by The Indian Express show.
COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM/NITI AAYOG
- NITI Aayog pushes for robust data ecosystem, cites need for reliable metrics in governance, development
Livemint, June 24, 2025 - Right to education is non-negotiable. It shouldn’t depend on Centre-state relations
The Indian Express, June 19, 2025 - Roots of a devolution showdown
The New Indian Express, June 16, 2025 - NITI Aayog works out road map to meet India’s rising energy demand
Business Standard, June 15, 2025 - Niti Aayog and a deepening federalism
The Indian Express, June 04, 2025
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS
- The need for gender equity in urban bureaucracy
The Hindu, June 25, 2025 - Bureaucratic reform
The Statesman, June 24, 2025 - The subordinate judiciary is an economic pillar India must fix
Livemint, June 17, 2025
RURAL ECONOMY
- MGNREGA verdict in, but tug of war between Centre, state lingers in Bengal
Business Standard, June 23, 2025 - Good tidings for Bharat
The Financial Express, June 17, 2025 - How commodity financing is becoming the backbone of India’s rural credit boom?
The Hindu Businessline, June 15, 2025
JOBS & SKILLS
- Centre launches initiative to equip rural girls with vocational training in non-traditional, emerging jobs
The New Indian Express, June 25, 2025 - Why the Skill India Initiative Has Lost Its Way
The Wire, June 20, 2025 - How formal staffing can drive India’s job quality and economic growth
The Indian Express, June 17, 2025
EDUCATION REFORMS
- Time to reorient STEM education for Viksit Bharat
Sunday Guardian, June 29, 2025 - Don’t let fads disrupt the fundamentals of learning
Livemint, June 25, 2025 - Education ministry forms panel to cut coaching centre dependence
Business Standard, June 21, 2025 - Why India’s education system must shift focus from marks to skills
IANsLive, June 19, 2025 - Reimagining education with AI
Hindustan Times, June 18, 2025
ECONOMIC REFORMS
- Why tier-two cities can drive forward India’s economic development
Moneycontrol, June 26, 2025 - For its economy, India must get closer to the world
The Indian Express, June 18, 2025 - Viksit Bharat 2047, $30 trillion goal, key reforms and welfare milestones
The Economic Times, June 17, 2025