Governance
AI for Inclusive Societal Development
For Prelims: NITI Aayog, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Ledger Technology, Augmented Reality
For Mains: Role of AI and frontier technologies in inclusive economic development, Employment
Why in News?
NITI Aayog released a study titled “AI for Inclusive Societal Development”, a first-of-its-kind effort to systematically explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and frontier technologies can be harnessed to transform the lives and livelihoods of India’s informal workers.
- The report proposes a National Mission “Digital ShramSetu”, envisioned as a technology-driven bridge to formalize and uplift the informal workforce.
What is the Mission Digital ShramSetu?
- About: Mission Digital ShramSetu is a transformative initiative proposed by NITI Aayog to digitize and empower India's informal workforce by leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, blockchain, robotics, and immersive learning.
- Objectives:
- Empowerment Through Technology: Utilize technology to create verifiable digital identities for workers, enabling access to timely payments, skill certifications, and social security benefits.
- Inclusive Skilling: Develop adaptive, multilingual, and offline-compatible training modules to upskill workers.
- Federated Credentialing System: Establish a decentralized trust model allowing training providers, employers, and government bodies to issue and verify worker credentials in real-time.
- Smart Contracts for Fair Compensation: Implement blockchain-based smart contracts to ensure transparent and timely payments to informal workers, reducing disputes and delays.
- Grassroots Innovation and Outreach: Encourage state-level programs and partnerships with local institutions to promote digital literacy and facilitate the adoption of technology.
- Governance and Structure:
- Apex Governing Body: Chaired by the Prime Minister, with key ministries involved in policy and budget decisions.
- Sectoral Task Forces: Focused on sectors like agriculture, healthcare, retail, and construction, tasked with solution design and implementation.
- State Coordination Units: To ensure local adaptation and effective on-ground execution.
- Targets:
What is the Current State of Informal Workers in India?
- Informal Workforce Size: Around 490 million people, representing about 85% of India’s total labour force.
- Economic Contribution: The informal sector contributes roughly 45% of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- Productivity Levels: Average productivity of informal workers is around USD 5 per hour, less than half the national average of USD11 per hour.
- Per Capita Income: The average informal worker earns about USD 1,800 per year (2025).
- Female Workforce Participation: Women’s participation in the informal trade sector remains very low at 15% (excluding agriculture), compared with 37% national average and 47% global average.
- Social Protection Coverage: Only 48% of informal workers currently have access to social security benefits.
Informal Workers
- According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), informal employment refers to jobs not protected by labour laws, taxation, or social security, lacking benefits like paid leave or severance pay.
- Informal workers include self-employed, casual, temporary, or family workers without formal contracts or social protection, even if they work in the formal sector.
- India’s Formalisation Targets: By 2047, India aims to formalise 73.2% of currently informal enterprises and reduce the informal sector’s share to 40%.
- India's Schemes for Informal Labourers:
What are the Challenges Faced by the Informal Workforce?
- Financial Fragility and Volatility: The lack of formal contracts and trusted identities causes delayed or inconsistent wages, leading to financial instability.
- Additionally, the absence of verifiable income and complex loan procedures prevent workers from accessing timely finance, while reliance on exploitative informal lending sources with high-interest rates further exacerbates their financial challenges.
- Market Access and Demand Linkages: Informal workers operate on the fringes of the market, with no consistent demand, or digital presence, resulting in chronic income instability and underemployment.
- Migrant workers face difficulties finding work across regions because they don't have portable digital identities or job-matching systems, leading to exploitation by intermediaries.
- Skilling and Adoption: Many informal workers rely on traditional, outdated methods and lack access to formal training, which limits their growth and productivity.
- Formal and adaptive training programs are scarce, and low digital literacy and inaccessible tools make it difficult for workers to adopt new technologies, further hindering their professional development.
- Social Protection and Occupational Safety: Workers struggle to benefit from social schemes due to a lack of awareness, digital barriers and non-portable records.
- Productivity Gaps: The lack of workflow optimization and access to digital tools results in wasted effort, low productivity, and no performance visibility, which directly impacts income potential.
How AI Technology can Transform Informal Livelihoods?
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Affordable Smartphones with AI Features |
Enables multimodal, multilingual interactions (voice, text, image) for informal workers to access digital platforms and services in their native language. |
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Provides high-speed internet access to over 740 million Indians by 2030, enabling scalable digital services in urban and rural areas. |
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Ensures secure, transparent transactions and verified identities across platforms, enabling trust and transparency in the informal economy. |
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AI and Robotics for Task Automation |
Automates tasks like fault detection, inspections, and repairs, enhancing productivity and safety, especially in hazardous work environments. |
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Provides immersive, hands-on training for informal workers like artisans, helping them improve skills through virtual workshops and real-time feedback. |
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Generative AI Knowledge Systems |
Provides on-demand, task-specific knowledge to informal workers, offering real-time guidance tailored to their job needs (e.g., loom blueprints, dye recipes). |
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Smart Contracts for Payment Automation |
Automates milestone-based payments through self-executing contracts, ensuring timely and transparent wage disbursements and reducing disputes. |
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AI-Powered Wearable Safety Gear |
Monitors worker health and safety in real-time, detecting hazards and providing alerts to prevent accidents and ensure compliance with safety standards. |
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IoT and AI for Precision Farming |
Uses Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and AI systems to monitor soil, climate, and irrigation, enabling more efficient, sustainable farming practices for informal agricultural workers. |
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Digital Wallets and Verifiable Credentials |
Allows informal workers to store and share secure, tamper-proof digital credentials (e.g., work history, skills, certificates) for job and loan access. |
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Exoskeletons (Wearable Powered Devices) |
Provides wearable exoskeletons that reduce physical strain and fatigue for workers by supporting their natural movements, enabling longer working hours and safer work in physically demanding jobs. |
Conclusion
NITI Aayog underscores that Viksit Bharat 2047 cannot be realized without empowering its informal workforce. AI must not replace human labour - it must enhance it. Timely action through Digital ShramSetu can ensure that India’s growth story becomes not only one of technological progress but of inclusive prosperity, where every worker, formal or informal, stands as a catalyst of development.
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Drishti Mains Question: Discuss how artificial intelligence can empower India’s informal workforce. |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What is the size of India’s informal workforce?
Around 490 million people, accounting for 85% of India’s total labour force.
2. What is the objective of the Digital ShramSetu mission?
To digitally formalize informal workers, provide verifiable identities, ensure timely payments, and enable social security benefits.
3. What are the main challenges faced by informal workers?
Financial instability, lack of formal contracts, low productivity (USD 5/hour), limited market access, weak social security coverage (48%), and low female participation (15%).
4. How will technology improve informal workers’ livelihoods?
AI-enabled training, smart contracts for fair wages, wearable safety gear, precision farming, and digital credentialing will enhance income, safety, and access to opportunities.
UPSC Civil Services Examination, Previous Year Question (PYQ)
Mains
Q. How globalization has led to the reduction of employment in the formal sector of the Indian economy? Is increased informalization detrimental to the development of the country? (2016)
Facts for UPSC Mains
Emerging Warfare Technologies and Self-Reliance in Defence Innovation
Why in News?
The Defence Minister of India highlighted that future wars will be shaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, drones, quantum computing, and directed-energy weapons as seen in Operation Sindoor and called on entrepreneurs and startups to set new benchmarks and create India’s first defence unicorn.
How are Emerging Technologies Transforming the Nature of Warfare?
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): AI analyzes battlefield data in real-time, helping commanders make faster strategic and tactical decisions.
- AI-powered algorithms detect, respond to, and predict cyber threats in real-time, protecting military networks.
- AI/ML, combined with information technology, can be used for military or political purposes, such as cyberattacks, espionage, and information warfare.
- These methods target government, civilian, and military systems through tactics like viruses, denial-of-service attacks, and phishing.
- A notable example is the Stuxnet worm, which specifically targeted Iranian nuclear facilities.
- Autonomous Weapons and Loitering Munitions: These include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like Israel's Harop and India's Nagastra-1 that make target decisions without human intervention.
- These loitering munitions autonomously seek and engage targets, combining missile and drone capabilities for precise strikes at a lower operational cost.
- Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs); The DEWs like India’s Directionally Unrestricted Ray-Gun Array (DURGA) II are high-energy lasers and microwave weapons, can incapacitate or destroy targets like missiles, drones, or vehicles without using traditional explosives.
- Quantum Technologies: It has the potential to break encryption systems, posing significant threats to secure communications in warfare.
- They can also be used for military applications like logistics optimization and simulation modeling.
- Space-Based Warfare: The militarization of space has made satellites critical for global positioning, communications, and real-time intelligence.
- Military satellites provide navigation, weather data, surveillance, and communication for forces on the ground, air, or sea.
- The ability to destroy or disable enemy satellites in space has become a strategic priority. Countries like China and India have tested Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) capabilities (e.g., India's Mission Shakti).
- Hypersonic Missiles: Missiles like BrahMos-II travel at speeds greater than Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound), allowing them to evade current missile defense systems.
- These weapons can carry conventional or nuclear warheads and are difficult to intercept due to their velocity and maneuverability.
- 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing: It allows for the rapid prototyping and production of spare parts, weapons, and even drones directly on the battlefield.
- This reduces supply chain dependency and the need for large inventories.
- Biotechnology: It has the potential to enhance soldiers’ physical and cognitive abilities, such as creating advanced prosthetics or developing genetic modifications to improve endurance or resistance to fatigue.
- Swarming Technology: It involves multiple small drones operating autonomously in coordinated patterns.
- Powered by AI, they can overwhelm defenses, enable reconnaissance, disrupt communications, and execute precision strikes, offering flexible and surprising capabilities in air and naval operations.
- Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR): AR and VR are enhancing training methods by providing realistic simulations for soldiers without the need for actual combat.
- These technologies help train personnel in complex battle scenarios, improving decision-making and tactical responses.
- Exoskeletons: Powered exoskeletons are designed to augment human strength and endurance, allowing soldiers to carry heavier loads and reduce fatigue during long operations.
Why is Self-Reliance in Defence Innovation Strategically Important for India?
- National Security & Self-Reliance: Indigenous technology reduces reliance on foreign arms, addressing challenges like CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) and ensuring strategic autonomy.
- The vulnerability of foreign-controlled infrastructure, like Global Positioning System satellites (controlled by the US), could be a potential weakness during conflicts.
- NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), India's regional satellite navigation system, ensures reliable, independent navigation capabilities, crucial for military operations and critical infrastructure without relying on foreign satellite systems.
- Atmanirbhar Bharat aims to achieve Rs 50,000 crore in defence exports by 2029, promoting the domestic production of key defense technologies.
- Strategic Deterrence: Indigenous missiles like Agni-V and BrahMos provide India with a robust deterrence capability, critical for regional stability.
- India’s defense strategy includes strengthening nuclear deterrence through self-reliant missile systems and maintaining a credible second-strike capability.
- Operational Flexibility: Technologies like Nirbhay missile and Dhanush artillery are built to suit India’s terrain and strategic needs, ensuring optimal performance.
- Indigenous systems can be quickly modified and integrated based on real-time feedback, strengthening national defense readiness.
- Economic Growth & Industry Development: The defense sector under Make in India creates high-tech jobs and strengthens the domestic manufacturing ecosystem.
- Increasing exports like the Akash missile to countries like Sri Lanka and Myanmar supports economic growth and geopolitical influence.
- Global Geopolitical Influence: Growing defense exports contribute to India's strategic partnerships, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region positioning India as a key global arms supplier.
What are the Key India's Initiatives Related Defence Startups?
- Make in India (Defence): Launched in 2014 to promote domestic manufacturing of defence equipment. Focuses on reducing import dependency and encouraging indigenous production.
- Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020: Introduced categories like Buy Indian (IDDM) and Buy Global–Manufacture in India. Prioritises domestic procurement with mandatory indigenous content thresholds.
- Defence capital acquisitions have increased from Rs. 74,000 crore in FY21-22 to Rs. 1.2 lakh crore in FY24-25
- Defence Procurement Manual (DPM-2025): Provides assured orders for 5+5 years, offering stability and predictability for innovators.
- Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP) 2020: Aims to develop a robust defence industrial ecosystem, including exports.
- Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX): Encourages start-ups and MSMEs to innovate for defence needs. Offers grants and procurement support; over 600 startups engaged as of 2025.
- Technology Development Fund (TDF): Run by DRDO to support MSMEs and startups for developing defence technologies. Funding limit raised to Rs 50 crore per project in FY25.
- SRIJAN Portal: Online platform listing imported items for indigenisation by Indian industry. Over 14,000 items indigenised till February 2025.
- Positive Indigenisation Lists (PILs): Five lists issued banning import of over 5,500 items beyond set deadlines. Enforced to ensure procurement only from domestic sources.
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Drishti Mains Question: Assess India’s preparedness for future warfare considering emerging technologies and domestic innovation ecosystems. |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
1. What are the key emerging technologies shaping modern warfare?
AI, autonomous systems, drones, cyber warfare, quantum computing, directed-energy weapons, hypersonic missiles, swarming drones, AR/VR, exoskeletons, and space-based capabilities.
2. Why is indigenous defence technology important for India?
Ensures strategic autonomy, reduces foreign dependence, strengthens operational readiness, promotes economic growth, and enhances global defence influence.
3. What is iDEX and its role in defence innovation?
iDEX connects startups/MSMEs with armed forces, providing funding, procurement, and scaling support for indigenous defence technologies.
4. What government policies support defence startups and MSMEs?
Make in India (Defence), Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020, SRIJAN Portal, and Positive Indigenisation Lists provide funding, procurement, and regulatory support.
UPSC Civil Services Examination, Previous Year Questions (PYQs)
Prelims
Q. What is “Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)”, sometimes seen in the news? (2018)
(a) An Israeli radar system
(b) India’s indigenous anti-missile programme
(c) An American anti-missile system
(d) A defence collaboration between Japan and South Korea.
Ans: (c)
Q. In the context of the Indian defence, what is ‘Dhruv’? (2008)
(a) Aircraft-carrying warship
(b) Missile-carrying submarine
(c) Advanced light helicopter
(d) Intercontinental ballistic missile
Ans: (c)
Mains
Q. What are the different elements of cyber security ? Keeping in view the challenges in cyber security, examine the extent to which India has successfully developed a comprehensive National Cyber Security Strategy. (2022)
Important Facts For Prelims
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
Why in News?
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.
Who is László Krasznahorkai?
- About: László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter, he is known for difficult, demanding novels often described as postmodern, dystopian, and melancholic.
- Famous Works: Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Seiobo There Below, The Last Wolf, and The World Goes On.
- Major Achievements and Awards: He is the winner of Man Booker International Prize 2015 and shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize 2018 (The World Goes On).
- Literary Recognition: László Krasznahorkai is praised for his labyrinthine prose, single-sentence paragraphs, and philosophical depth.
- His works explore apocalyptic visions, human delusion, moral collapse, and the interplay of despair and beauty.
- The Melancholy of Resistance described by 2015 Man Booker judges as a “satirical and prophetic vision of Western Civilisation.”
Note: India’s celebrated novelist Amitav Ghosh was among the contenders for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Amitav Ghosh, born in Kolkata in 1956, is the winner of the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honour, and one of the country’s leading contemporary writers.
Did you Know?
- Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, which he expressed in his own English words and made a part of the literature of the West.
- Notable literary contributions by Rabindranath Tagore are Manasi, Gitanjali, Sâdhanâ: The Realisation of Life, and Chitra: a Play in One Act.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
1. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025?
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his visionary works exploring apocalyptic themes and the power of art.
2. What are some notable works of László Krasznahorkai?
His famous works include Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Seiobo There Below, The Last Wolf, and The World Goes On.
3. Who is the Indian Nobel Laureate in Literature?
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for works like Gitanjali, Manasi, Sâdhanâ, and Chitra, reflecting profound sensitivity and literary innovation.
Important Facts For Prelims
Expansion of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
Why in News?
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has expanded the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) by including 9 additional commodities, increasing the total tradable agricultural products on the platform to 247 from 238.
What is the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)?
- About: e-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading portal launched in April 2016, fully funded by the Central Government and implemented by Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC).
- Its beneficiaries are farmers, mandis, traders, buyers, processors and exporters
- Key Objectives:
- Create a Unified Market: Integrate state-level markets for pan-India agricultural trade.
- Ensure Transparency: Enable better price discovery via transparent auctions and wider buyer access.
- Improve Efficiency: Streamline and standardize marketing procedures across markets.
- Assure Quality: Implement quality assaying so prices reflect produce quality.
- Benefit Consumers: Support stable prices and availability of quality produce.
- Features: Pan-India Network, Quality assurance & assaying, Streamlined licensing & market fees, Direct online payments, Improved market access & information, and Logistics & Integration.
- Monitoring: It follows a coordinated approach with SFAC at the national level and respective state departments with supporting agencies at the state level.
- Pre-requisites for e-NAM: States must implement three reforms in their APMC Act to integrate mandis with e-NAM:
- Permit e-auction/electronic trading.
- Issue a single trading license valid across the State/UT.
- Apply a single-point levy of market fee.
- Tradable Parameters for Goods: The Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) is tasked with setting tradable parameters for commodities on e-NAM, which establish standardized grades or ranges, link prices to quality, and help farmers secure better value for their produce.
- eNAM Achievements: A total of 1,389 Mandis from 23 States and 4 UTs have been integrated into the e-NAM platform, with over 1.77 crore farmers and 2.53 lakh traders registered as of February 2024.
- Significance: Enhanced price realization for farmers, Reduction in post-harvest losses, Formalization of agricultural trade, Stable prices and supply for consumers.
Other Digital Marketing Initiatives in Agriculture
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What is the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)?
e-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading platform launched in 2016 to integrate mandis, enable transparent auctions, and improve price discovery for farmers.
2. How many commodities are tradable on e-NAM after the latest expansion?
247 agricultural commodities are now tradable on e-NAM after the inclusion of 9 new commodities.
3. Which other digital initiatives complement e-NAM in India?
Initiatives include Krishi UDAN 2.0, FPO formation and promotion, ITC e-Choupal, Agri-Stack, and Agri Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF).
UPSC Civil Services Examination, Previous Year Question (PYQ)
Prelims
Q. In India, which of the following can be considered as public investment in agriculture? (2020)
- Fixing Minimum Support Price for agricultural produce of all crops
- Computerization of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
- Social Capital development
- Free electricity supply to farmers
- Waiver of agricultural loans by the banking system
- Setting up of cold storage facilities by the governments
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 5 only
(b) 1, 3, 4 and 5 only
(c) 2, 3 and 6 only
(d) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Ans: (c)
Q. In the context of India’s preparation for Climate -Smart Agriculture, consider the following statements: (2021)
- The ‘Climate-Smart Village’ approach in India is a part of a project led by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), an international research programme.
- The project of CCAFS is carried out under Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) headquartered in France.
- The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India is one of the CGIAR’s research centres.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans: (d)
Rapid Fire
Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025
The Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 is being organised by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with Atal Innovation Mission (NITI Aayog).
- About: It is a nationwide innovation initiative designed to foster a culture of creativity and problem-solving among students of classes 6 to 12, aligning with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
- Objective: To encourage students to create ideas and prototypes, preparing them to contribute to a prosperous and self-reliant India (Atmanirbhar Bharat).
- Themes: It is centered around four pivotal national themes: Atmanirbhar Bharat, Swadeshi, Vocal for Local, and Samriddh Bharat.
- Inclusive Participation: It has a special focus on including students from Aspirational Districts, Tribal Regions, and Remote Areas to ensure wide-reaching impact.
- Awards and Support: It offers an awards pool of Rs. 1 Crore to National Level winners, State level winners and District level winners.
| Read More: Atal Innovation Mission 2.0 |
Rapid Fire
NPCI Tech Solutions Limited
During the Global Fintech Fest 2025 in Mumbai, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) revealed the establishment of its new subsidiary, NPCI Tech Solutions Limited (NTSL)
- NTSL becomes the fourth subsidiary under the NPCI umbrella and is tasked with driving experimentation and pioneering innovations in the fintech sector.
- Previously, NPCI had incorporated NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL), NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), and NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited (NBBL).
Global Fintech Fest
- About: Global Fintech Fest serves as a global platform for innovation, collaboration, and transformation in fintech, and since 2020, has become a benchmark for dialogue and action in the sector.
- Organisers: It is jointly organized by the Payments Council of India (PCI), the NPCI, and the Fintech Convergence Council (FCC).
Fintech
- Fintech (short for Financial Technology) refers to the use of technology to deliver financial services and solutions more efficiently, securely, and innovatively.
- Common Examples:
- Digital Payments: UPI apps (PhonePe, Google Pay), mobile wallets (Paytm), contactless cards.
- P2P Lending: Platforms connecting borrowers directly with lenders, bypassing banks.
- Digital Banking: Online-only banks (Neo-banks) with no branches.
- Investment Apps: Platforms like Groww, Zerodha for buying stocks and mutual funds.
- InsurTech: Tech-enabled insurance purchase and claims (Acko, Policybazaar).
- Read More: Fintechs Leading India’s Start-up Ecosystem
Rapid Fire
Breathable Art
Delhi inaugurates ‘Breathable Art’ to raise awareness on air quality and sustainable living.
- The initiative is part of the ‘Breath of Change – Clean Air, Blue Skies’ campaign held under the Environmental Information, Awareness, Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme (EIACP) of the Environment Education, Awareness, Research and Skill Development (EEARSD) Scheme.
- Breathable Art: It is an innovative, living structure created using air-purifying plants like Areca palm, snake plant, and peace lily and sustainable materials to raise awareness on air pollution and promote sustainable urban living.
- Serving as an educational hub for students, eco-clubs, and residents, it uses QR-code content to explain plants’ air-cleaning roles, how they enhance urban green spaces, and provide a nature-based solution for improving air quality.
- EEARSD Scheme: It is a central Sector Scheme by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change to promote non-formal environmental education, fostering scientific temper, critical thinking, creativity, and empathy through Eco-clubs, Youth Clubs, and similar groups for hands-on sustainable learning.
| Read more: Greening the Education Sector |
