Advance Pricing Agreements provide transfer pricing certainty across prior and future years, reducing disputes and promoting cooperative compliance.
The APA program expanded through additional bilateral and unilateral agreements, enabling advance determination of transfer pricing methods and arm's length price for specified international transactions for up to five future years, with a rollback option for preceding years that together provide multi year transfer pricing certainty. The mechanism is presented as reducing disputes, fostering a non adversarial tax regime, and improving ease of doing business, with recent growth maintained despite pandemic disruptions.

Project monitoring mechanisms used milestone tracking and intergovernmental reviews to resolve implementation constraints for infrastructure projects.
The administrative monitoring framework for large-scale infrastructure combines periodic intergovernmental review meetings with milestone-based monitoring on a centralized portal to identify, assign and resolve implementation constraints, anticipate delays, mitigate time and cost overruns, and drive projects toward commissioning through coordinated actions by project proponents, state governments and central ministries.

Patent and Trademark examination reform accelerates processing, expands e filing incentives and fee concessions, and modernizes classification.
Reforms focus on accelerating examination and reducing compliance burdens by modernising IP offices, implementing WIPO-IPCCAT for patent classification, aligning trademark classification with international treaties, providing VPN and video-conferencing for remote examination, incentivising e-filing through fee concessions, expanding fee reductions to educational institutions and other entities, offering expedited examination pathways for specified applicants, consolidating trademark forms and simplifying registration procedures, amending formalities for priority and compliance filings, and providing regular examiner training to reduce pendency times.

Startup recognition and support expands mentorship, awards, and global engagement to strengthen the national innovation ecosystem.
The summary highlights the Startup India initiative's expansion in recognized startups, geographic spread into Tier II and III cities, job creation, and the State Startup Rankings that promote best practices and mentorship. It also notes the National Startup Awards as a mechanism for identifying innovation and providing handholding support including mentorship and global engagement, and it records sectoral diversification and contributions of startups to flagship government urban and infrastructure programs.

Dearness Allowance increase approved; additional instalment effective for central employees and pensioners under seventh CPC formula.
An additional instalment of Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief has been approved effective 01.01.2022, representing a three percentage point increase over the existing rate, implemented in accordance with the accepted formula based on the Seventh Central Pay Commission, resulting in an annual fiscal impact and covering serving Central Government employees and pensioners.

Comprehensive economic partnership encourages UAE investment in India via open FDI, incentive schemes and strengthened bilateral trust.
Invitation to UAE businesses highlights that most sectors permit full foreign direct investment and promotes the Production Linked Incentive scheme and Make in India as mechanisms to attract investment and improve ease of doing business; it frames India as a cost- and trust-advantaged destination and identifies the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement and institutional initiatives, including plans for an IIT in the UAE and a permanent India Pavilion, as drivers of deeper bilateral economic integration.

Export target urging the gems and jewellery sector to dramatically expand exports through a new India-UAE trade hub.
The Minister urged a substantial expansion of gems and jewellery exports and inaugurated the Indian Jewellery Exposition Centre in Dubai, describing it as a strategic trade facilitation point to improve market access, support international distribution from the UAE, and strengthen India-UAE business engagement while promoting domestic manufacturing and design origin.

Direct Benefits Transfer transparency expanded as 313 central schemes onboarded on DBT Bharat Portal to improve beneficiary targeting.
The Direct Benefits Transfer programme aims to enhance transparency by transferring subsidies directly to beneficiaries' bank accounts and improving beneficiary targeting; 313 Central sector and Centrally sponsored schemes from 53 Ministries have been onboarded on the DBT Bharat Portal to support direct transfer mechanisms, with reported beneficiary counts for cash and in-kind transfers, and a clarification that no scheme named Pradhan Mantri Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme (PMDBT) is onboarded.

CEPA operationalization expands market access and services liberalisation, triggering increased trade and investment flows between India and UAE.
The India-UAE CEPA will be operationalized in 2022 and covers Merchandise Trade and Services, having been concluded in 88 days. It aims to expand market access with the UAE serving as a gateway to other regional markets, strengthen services trade, and incorporate UAE commitments to invest in Indian infrastructure, manufacturing and logistics to deepen bilateral trade and investment linkages.

Startup ecosystem ambition: government to secure level playing field and boost India UAE economic partnership for innovation.
India aims to become the world's leading startup ecosystem by facilitating an enabling business environment, investor-entrepreneur collaboration and outreach to underserved regions, promoting startups via innovation hubs and national pavilions to catalyse financing and market access. The recently finalised Comprehensive Economic Partnership with the UAE is presented as a key mechanism to deepen bilateral trade, B2B engagement and cross border investment, and to foster cooperation across sustainability, aerospace, connectivity, AI, data analytics and related technologies.

Gender-focused incubation expands incubator capacity to design and implement women-centric support for entrepreneurial participation.
The collaboration between AIM and the Her&Now project will deliver the WINcubate Training Programme to AIM incubators to enable a gender-focused approach to incubation. The programme provides knowledge, tools and methods-live lectures, offline modules, exercises and film screenings-to design and implement women-centric incubation programming that addresses gender-specific barriers to enterprise creation and growth.

Make in India initiative drives manufacturing investment and coordinated sectoral action, complemented by startup funding schemes.
Make in India advances manufacturing investment and sectoral coordination across central ministries, states and missions, focusing on 27 sectors and contributing to increased manufacturing GVA and employment. Startup India complements this with two national funding programmes: the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) to address startup funding needs with designated monitoring and operating agencies, and the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) to finance early-stage development and commercialization via support to incubators and entrepreneurs.

Public procurement digitisation boosts inclusion and competitive savings while expanding seller and buyer participation.
Government e-Market expanded as a national e-procurement platform by increasing Gross Merchandise Value and order volumes, driving inclusion of MSMEs and women entrepreneurs, and securing significant participation from states and CPSEs. Operational improvements include NLP search, analytics for anomalous transactions, ERP integrations, a buyback mechanism, BoQ evaluation enhancements, forward-auction functionality, and strengthened infrastructure and security measures, supported by external audits and certification efforts to sustain higher transactional loads and improve procurement efficiency and cost savings.

Ease of Doing Business reforms streamline regulation and commercial dispute resolution through labour codes, digitisation, and mediation.
Ease of Doing Business reforms centre on DPIIT's Business Reforms Action Plan to rank States/UTs and streamline regulatory processes, with objectives including digitisation, auto renewal, risk based inspections, simplified returns, register rationalisation and decriminalisation. Labour law consolidation into four Labour Codes introduces single registration, licence and return for establishments supported by the Shram Suvidha Portal. Commercial dispute measures under the Commercial Courts Act and related rules deploy PIMS, mandatory case management hearings, CIS automated case allocation, e filing, e service and statistical data rules to expedite and monitor commercial case disposal.

Patent Working Disclosure: patentees must file annual Form 27 reporting extent of commercial working, not commercial success.
Every patentee and every licensee must furnish an annual Form 27 disclosing the extent to which the patented invention has been worked on a commercial scale in India; this disclosure concerns the extent of commercial working and does not require information on the commercial success of the invention. Patent grant figures for recent fiscal years were reported alongside this statement in a ministerial parliamentary reply.

Investment Clearance Cell single window access streamlines identification and application of Central and State regulatory approvals for projects.
The Investment Clearance Cell (ICC)/National Single Window System (NSWS) provides a centralized online portal for pre investment advisory, land bank information and facilitation of Central and State regulatory clearances through single login access. Its Know Your Approvals (KYA) module is a dynamic questionnaire that produces an indicative list of required approvals based on investor inputs including sector, investment size, entity type and project location. Multiple Central approvals and several State/UT single window systems are linked to the portal, while integration of additional States, including Rajasthan, is in progress.

One District-One Product programme drives export promotion through cooperatives, FPO empowerment and vocational skill development.
One District-One Product (ODOP) is presented as the principal policy instrument to boost Bihar's exports by leveraging district-specific specialisations and scaling production through strengthened cooperatives and empowered Farmer Producer Organizations. The summary stresses vocational training under the New Education Policy to supply skilled labour for ODOP industries and cites entrepreneur-driven innovation as demonstrative of export potential. It places ODOP within an "Act East" regional integration strategy supported by government-led infrastructure and development initiatives.

Non-disclosure obligations protect bidding confidentiality in BPCL privatisation and employee terms addressed in Share Purchase Agreement.
Multiple Expressions of Interest have been received for BPCL privatisation and the process is in a second stage. The Transaction Advisor is bound by a non-disclosure agreement preventing disclosure of bidder information during the process to preserve competitive non-collusive bidding. Employee concerns are to be addressed through terms in the Share Purchase Agreement of the strategic disinvestment.

Extension of New Investment Policy applicability for revival of multiple urea units enables increased domestic urea production and regional development.
Approval extends the New Investment Policy-2012 to HURL's Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni units to revive closed urea plants by constructing gas-based urea facilities supplied by GAIL, adding substantial indigenous urea production capacity to support self-reliance, improve fertilizer availability, and foster regional economic and infrastructure development. The plants incorporate advanced safety, control, and environmental monitoring systems and operate without offsite wastewater disposal.

Minimum Support Price for raw jute to bolster producer returns and mandate government reimbursement for procurement losses.
Approval sets the Minimum Support Price for raw jute for the 2022-23 season in accordance with recommendations, raising the MSP to secure a substantial margin over the all-India weighted average cost of production and to incentivise quality jute fibre. The Jute Corporation of India is designated as the Central Government nodal agency to undertake price support operations, and any losses incurred in such operations will be fully reimbursed by the Central Government.