Among these projects, the Ken-Betwa Link Project, which will benefit parts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, has progressed the furthest and has now entered the implementation stage. The project is estimated to cost around ₹44,605 crore and is designed to provide irrigation benefits to approximately 11.88 lakh hectares.
Alongside the overall housing milestone, the programme has also emerged as a major instrument of women’s asset ownership. Of the approximately 1.25 crore houses sanctioned under PMAY-U and PMAY-U 2.0, around 1 crore houses have been allotted either in the name of the female head of the household or under joint ownership involving women.
A government does not necessarily need to occupy another country to alter its choices. Access to financial markets can be restricted. Banks can be threatened with exclusion from the dollar system. Defence purchases can trigger sanctions. Development assistance can be conditioned. Technology can be withheld. Foreign civil-society organisations, media institutions and advocacy networks can be financially supported.
The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs said that 33 of India’s 37 State and Union Territory legislatures had signed memoranda of understanding for implementing the platform by July 2026. The two Houses of Parliament are outside the scope of the NeVA programme, which is focused on State and Union Territory legislatures.
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.
