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Policy Circle is a digital platform that offers in-depth coverage of public policy issues in governance, environment, and society. It was launched in 2020 by a group of policy experts who share a vision of promoting evidence-based policymaking and constructive policy dialogue.
It also organises summits, roundtables, and online discussions to bring together policymakers, researchers, corporate executives, professionals, and other stakeholders to deliberate on policy issues. It looks to bridge the gap between research and policy outcomes by facilitating dialogue among policy actors. It seeks to improve the quality of public policy discourse and decision making. Source
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| Country | India |
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Search ArticlesEnergy transition can reshape India’s industrial investment
Falling solar and storage costs are weakening the case for new coal and changing the economics of India’s energy transition. Energy transition: India has committed to net zero by 2070, but the calculations behind that target have changed faster than the policy debate. It was assumed that a developing country would first build its industrial base on cheap fossil fuels and deal with emissions later. That sequence made sense when cleaner energy was expensive.
India needs a lawfare strategy for a harder world
The Indus Waters Treaty dispute shows why India needs a coordinated lawfare strategy to defend its interests and shape international rules. Lawfare strategy: The dispute over the Indus Waters Treaty has moved well beyond water. After the Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 22, 2025, India announced that the 1960 treaty would be held in abeyance until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably” ended its support for cross-border terrorism. The legal contest has continued.
India’s clean energy transition needs a stronger grid
India’s clean energy transition has entered a harder phase as storage, transmission and distribution determine renewable power use. India’s clean energy transition: India has crossed 300 GW of non-fossil power capacity, and the 500 GW target for 2030 is no longer the stretch it once appeared to be. That is the reassuring part of the story. The less comfortable one is visible in the gap between capacity and generation.
High-seas fishing push needs more than permits
India’s new high-seas fishing permits could unlock tuna exports, but vessels, finance, cold chains and stock limits will decide viability. High-seas fishing push: India has spent years talking about the blue economy while most of its fishing fleet has stayed relatively close to shore. That constraint is now being tested.
IRDAI EoM limits crackdown tests insurers’ cost discipline
IRDAI is tightening enforcement of EoM limits as the industry wrestles with high distribution and customer-acquisition costs. IRDAI EoM limits crackdown: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has barred four insurers from opening new places of business for six months after they exceeded prescribed expenses of management limits in FY25.
Rural healthcare needs stronger links across the system
India’s rural healthcare reforms will work only if medicines, diagnostics, ambulances, referrals and insurance function as one system. India has spent two decades expanding the visible architecture of rural healthcare. The harder task now is to make its parts work together. On July 31, in a written Lok Sabha reply, the Union health ministry detailed National Health Mission support for free medicines, diagnostics and rural staffing.
South Asia plastic waste problem needs a PPP solution
For South Asia, plastic waste is an implementation problem which will require better PPPs that can connect regulation, finance, recycling and accountability. South Asia plastic waste problem: The world is still without a treaty to curb plastic pollution. Negotiations in Geneva broke down in August 2025, and a resumed session in February 2026 was confined to procedural business. Informal consultations are now meant to prepare the ground for another formal round in March 2027.
Airport privatisation must pass a competition test
India’s airport privatisation plan needs competition safeguards based on traffic share, not simply the number of airports. India’s aviation market has become highly concentrated in the air. IndiGo and the Air India group together accounted for about 91% of domestic passengers in July. A similar, though less extreme, concentration is taking shape on the ground. That makes the government’s next round of airport privatisation a test of competition policy as much as infrastructure policy.
Nature finance in India needs bankable projects first
A project preparation facility could turn India’s restoration potential into credible projects capable of attracting nature finance. Nature finance in India: India’s biodiversity ambitions require substantial investment. UNDP estimates that meeting the country’s national biodiversity targets will require about ₹816 billion a year. The government has also begun putting financial instruments in place through the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme and the Green Credit Programme.
Census 2027 can rebuild India’s statistical foundation
Census 2027 can update India’s demographic base, improve public spending and reshape debates over caste, welfare and delimitation. India’s long-delayed census is finally in the field. Houselisting and housing operations began state by state on April 1 and will continue through September 2026, ahead of population enumeration in February 2027.