MGNREGA Completes 20 Years: A Data-Driven Assessment of Rural Employment
Two decades of India's flagship rural employment guarantee scheme — what the data reveals about wage trends, participation, and economic impact across states.
Government policies, schemes, and public administration.
Government policies, schemes, and public administration.
Investigation into delayed and unpaid crop insurance claims across six states.
From the landmark right to privacy judgment to the 2026 amendments, India's journey toward comprehensive data protection legislation has been long and contentious.
India's education budget has grown 40% in five years, but learning outcomes continue to decline — raising fundamental questions about expenditure efficiency.
An investigation into all 104 candidates selected under the 10% EWS quota in Civil Services 2025 finds IIT graduates, private school alumni, and business family children — raising fundamental questions about targeting and due diligence.
Diljit Dosanjh's biopic of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra survived 127 CBFC cuts, three title changes, and a pulled TIFF premiere — only to be taken down by ZEE5 within 48 hours of release. An investigation into India's censorship machinery and the story it tried to bury.
In October 2023, a threat actor put 815 million Indian citizen records — names, Aadhaar numbers, passport details — up for sale at $80,000. The breach, believed to originate from ICMR's COVID-19 testing database, became India's largest data leak, testing the country's new data protection regime.
After the shock defeat of the delimitation-cum-women's reservation bill on April 17, 2026, the BJP launched a high-stakes strategy to secure 360+ Lok Sabha seats — enough for a two-thirds majority — by engineering defections, targeting regional parties, and leveraging its historic Bengal win. The outcome will determine whether the government can reshape India's electoral map through constitutional reform.
Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) has become the world's largest publicly funded health insurance scheme, covering 12.5 crore families and facilitating 6.2 crore hospitalizations in eight years — but questions persist about coverage gaps, hospital quality, and whether ₹30,000 crore can sustain universal health coverage for a nation of 1.4 billion.
Electoral Bonds were meant to clean up political funding. Instead, they created the most opaque campaign finance system in Indian history — ₹12,769 crore in anonymous donations, 47.5% flowing to the BJP, with shell companies and contractors under investigation pouring ₹4,200+ crore into ruling party coffers. The Supreme Court struck down the scheme in February 2024.
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Nodal ministry of Government of India responsible for rural development policies, programmes, and schemes including MGNREGA, PMAY-G, and DAY-NRLM.

Nodal ministry of Government of India responsible for agriculture policy, crop insurance, farmer welfare, and food security.

Supreme audit institution of India, responsible for auditing the accounts of the Union and State governments.

Independent constitutional body responsible for administering election processes at national and state levels. The ECI published electoral bond donor data following the Supreme Court's February 2024 judgment striking down the anonymous donation scheme.
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