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From Banarasi sarees and Channapatna toys to Darjeeling Tea, Muzaffarnagar Jaggery and Assam’s Joha Rice, GI recognition provides buyers with an assurance of geographical origin and traditional authenticity. At the same time, it offers artisans, farmers, weavers and producer organisations a legal and commercial tool to protect their products from imitation.
The measures combine existing criminal laws, stricter obligations for online platforms, faster content-removal timelines, indigenous deepfake-detection technologies and nationwide cybersecurity awareness programmes. The government has also approved 13 Responsible AI projects under the IndiaAI Mission, including projects focused on detecting manipulated audio and visual content.
To strengthen cybercrime investigations, the government has set up a National Cyber Forensic Laboratory at the CFSL in Hyderabad. Additionally, six more National Cyber Forensic Laboratories have been approved under the umbrella scheme “Safety of Women.”
Madanapalle in Andhra Pradesh is developing a municipal waste-management model in which household refuse is
MyGov had 6,32,16,167 registered citizens by July 10, 2026. Of these, more than 4.48 crore people joined the platform during the five-year period from July 11, 2021, to July 10, 2026.
The digital identification system is designed to provide farmers with a unified identity that can be connected with government schemes, agricultural records and support services. States are using Farmer IDs to simplify registrations and benefit delivery under programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Minimum Support Price-based procurement.
For a country facing cross-border terrorism, separatist networks, unresolved territorial disputes, information warfare, radicalisation, narcotics trafficking and sustained attempts to exploit internal fault lines, the answer must be unequivocal: India requires a strong, transparent and enforceable Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
The government has taken serious note of reports alleging that advertisements linked to child sexual abuse material were being disseminated through social media platforms. A detailed report has been sought from the intermediary concerned, while the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has also issued notices to the relevant social media platforms.
The government’s approach is built around the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. These provisions require social-media platforms and other intermediaries to exercise due diligence and inform users against publishing or transmitting content that harms children or violates Indian law.
The PESA Act was enacted under Article 243M(4)(b) of the Constitution to extend the provisions relating to Panchayati Raj institutions to Fifth Schedule Areas with specific modifications. As Panchayats function as institutions of local government under State laws, the implementation of PESA and the adoption of digital governance platforms in Scheduled Areas remain the responsibility of the respective State governments.
