Electoral bond rules: bonds purchasable by eligible persons, encashable only via authorised bank accounts and valid fifteen days.
The Electoral Bond Scheme permits purchase by Indian citizens or Indian-incorporated entities, with individuals allowed to buy singly or jointly. Only political parties that are registered under the relevant law and meet the minimum vote-share threshold may receive bonds. Encashment is allowed solely through a party's bank account with an authorised bank. State Bank of India is authorised to issue and encash bonds through specified authorised branches during the stated sales window. Each bond is valid for fifteen calendar days and valid deposits are credited on the same day.

Supervisory Technology procurement launches RFP to select IT service provider for design, implementation and sustained operations.
The authority has invited proposals to select an IT Service Provider to design, develop, implement, operate and maintain a Supervisory Technology (SupTech) system covering administrative, compliance, supervision and enforcement functions, with the detailed scope and procurement notice published on its e-procurement and tender portals.

Performance-based incentives: State Health Index links incremental health performance to National Health Mission incentives, promoting competitive improvement.
State Health Index evaluates states and UTs on incremental and overall health performance using a weighted composite of 24 indicators across outcomes, governance and inputs. Data are collected through an online portal, validated by an independent agency, verified with states and finalised after dispute resolution. The Index is categorised by entity size to allow comparison and is linked by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to incentives under the National Health Mission, thereby aligning fiscal incentives with measured health outcomes.

Health Index ranks state health performance to drive improvements, data validation, and link scores to incentive allocation.
The Health Index is an outcomes-focused composite ranking aggregating 24 indicators across Health Outcomes, Governance and Information, and Key Inputs and Processes to produce overall and incremental state/UT scores; data are collected via a NITI portal, validated by an independently selected agency, verified by states, and finalised for analysis. The Index aims to track progress, promote competitive federalism and cross-learning, support SDG and UHC objectives, and is linked to National Health Mission incentives to shift focus from inputs to outcomes.

Compliance burden reduction: simplify processes and promote self-certification to streamline service delivery.
The policy agenda advances reduction of regulatory compliance burden through simplification, stakeholder-driven rationalisation and technology-enabled integration. It prioritises proportional monitoring, consolidation of digital services into single-window platforms, and a unified single identification number to remove redundancy. The approach endorses decriminalisation of Legal Metrology and expanded use of self-attestation, self-certification and self-regulation, together with crowdsourcing to identify and eliminate cumbersome compliances, while maintaining humane grievance redressal and interdepartmental synergy.

Retail trade policy aims to streamline retail operations and boost modernization, credit access and trader welfare
National Retail Policy proposes a harmonized framework to streamline retail trade by improving ease of doing business through access to affordable credit, facilitation of modernization and digitization, promotion of modern technology and infrastructure across the distribution chain, and support for skill development, employment creation and an effective consultative and grievance redressal mechanism for trader and employee welfare.

Loan eligibility under PMMY: credit for non farm microenterprises enables broad outreach and targeted support for disadvantaged entrepreneurs.
The press release states that Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) makes credit available to eligible individuals with a business plan for non-farm income-generating activities up to the Scheme's ceiling; it provides aggregated four-year figures for accounts and sanctioned amounts uploaded by Member Lending Institutions, summarizes a national survey attributing net additional employment to PMMY with employment shares across Shishu, Kishore and Tarun categories, and notes outreach to social groups and women entrepreneurs while indicating that employment data are not centrally maintained.

Reducing compliance burden through national integration and a single sign-on to streamline citizen services and redressal.
A DPIIT workshop aims to reduce compliance burden by promoting integration between Central and State single-window systems and exploring a single business identifier; establishing a National Single Sign-on with a National Citizen Centric Portal and a National Digital Profile to pre-fill forms and support welfare discovery; and strengthening grievance redressal through advanced technology and accountability mechanisms, with session outcomes to be presented to senior government leadership.

Supply obligations: Telangana urged to honour MoU commitments after failing to deliver contracted rice to central pool.
Procurement and supply obligations are central: Telangana allegedly failed to deliver about 27 lakh tonnes from last Rabi, including parboiled and raw rice, despite an October commitment not to supply parboiled rice; the Centre notes increased procurement and MSP benefits, states it procured additional parboiled rice as a special concession, contends central stocks and logistics are sufficient, and urges the State to honour its delivery commitments under the memorandum.

Merger control approval for minority equity acquisition via preferential issue enables foreign investor to subscribe through an SPV.
The Competition Commission approved a foreign investor's acquisition of a minority equity stake in the Indian infrastructure holding company by subscribing to newly issued shares via a preferential issue on a private placement; the transaction is treated as an acquisition subject to merger control. The acquirer is a Singapore SPV within a GIC-managed group; the target is an Indian public company engaged in EPC construction, road O&M and related infrastructure activities. A detailed regulatory order will follow.

Sampoorna Sukanya Gram campaign expands Sukanya Samriddhi Account outreach to ensure universal account opening for eligible girl children.
The Department of Posts conducts multimedia publicity and periodic campaigns to promote the Sukanya Samriddhi Account and facilitate account openings for eligible girl children. The Sampoorna Sukanya Gram Campaign was launched to ensure last mile coverage by requiring villages to achieve comprehensive SSA enrolment for eligible girls, resulting in a large number of villages being declared Sampoorna Sukanya Gram.

Insurance coverage expansion: demand-driven schemes report higher women enrolment and insurer-paid claims under PMJJBY and PMSBY.
PMJJBY and PMSBY are voluntary demand-driven and consent-based insurance schemes with no Union Government premium assistance, offering specified life and accidental disability coverage; insurer data report higher women enrolment and provide counts and aggregate amounts of claims paid for women beneficiaries up to the stated October 2021 cut-off, with state-wise details recorded in annexures.

Performance-based fiscal transfers link central funds to improved urban service delivery to strengthen ULB governance and revenue.
A policy-based loan supports national policies and guidelines, followed by state- and ULB-level reform actions to expand piped water, sanitation, and affordable housing access; it conditions support on reforms and provides advisory, monitoring, and safeguards assistance. The program promotes performance-based central fiscal transfers to urban local bodies to link fiscal transfers to improved urban service delivery, strengthen local revenue generation, and enhance governance capacity.

Logistics cost reduction prioritised: coordinated multimodal connectivity planning and digitisation to lower transport expenses nationwide.
An Empowered Group of Secretaries chaired by the Cabinet Secretary will monitor PM GatiShakti implementation, oversee a GIS-based National Master Plan with mapped geospatial layers, and coordinate through a Network Planning Group and High Powered Expert Group. EGoS directed compilation of infrastructure gaps for inclusion in annual action plans, prioritised multimodal connectivity studies to economic zones, required identification of processes raising logistics costs with administrative remedies, and mandated integration and digitisation of management information systems to prioritise logistics cost reduction across ministries.

Unified Logistics Interface Platform drives integration and crowdsourced tech solutions to reduce logistics inefficiencies and boost competitiveness.
The ULIP Hackathon 'LogiXtics' is a national crowdsourcing initiative organised by NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission with NICDC support to solicit technology solutions from startups and individuals via ideation and prototype stages. ULIP is conceived as a technology platform to provide real-time information, eliminate information asymmetry, and converge multi-modal transport visibility across departmental silos, supporting PM GatiShakti's objectives of integration, single-window transparency, and enhanced logistics competitiveness.

Cluster development scheme expands infrastructure and common facility support for micro and small enterprises, with state-driven project approvals.
The Micro and Small Enterprises-Cluster Development Programme supplies financial assistance for Common Facility Centers and for establishment or up gradation of Industrial Areas, Estates and Flatted Factory Complexes to boost MSE productivity. The scheme is demand driven, requiring State Government requests for project approval, and covers New Technology Centres, Extension Centres, Mini Tool Rooms and Mini Technology Centres. Reported project approvals include completed Industrial Area/ Estate upgrades and a mix of completed and ongoing Common Facility Center projects.

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana expands central irrigation funding and project targets to boost water access and rejuvenation.
Cabinet approved PMKSY implementation for 2021-26, continuing AIBP, HKKP and Watershed Development with central support and targets: AIBP to create 13.88 lakh hectare irrigation potential and complete 60 ongoing projects (30.23 lakh hectare command area); 90% central funding for two national multipurpose projects in the Yamuna basin; HKKP to provide 4.5 lakh hectare via surface minor irrigation and RRR of water bodies and 1.52 lakh hectare via ground water (provisional); water body rejuvenation central assistance increased from 25% to 60%; Watershed projects to complete 49.5 lakh hectare sanctioned area to add 2.5 lakh hectare protective irrigation.

Small business credit access under PMMY expanded through collateral-free, simplified loans, boosting outreach and employment generation.
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana has extended extensive microcredit support across three categories-Shishu, Kishore, and Tarun-built on no-collateral, simplified documentation and quick processing. Independent studies found these features increased borrower uptake, helped expand business scope and profits, drove growth in bank credit to MSMEs with larger loan sizes in Shishu, and led to measurable net additional employment attributable to the scheme, with Shishu accounting for the largest share of employment gains.

MSME relief measures: credit guarantees, revised definitions and procurement changes to improve liquidity and payment outcomes.
Atmanirbhar Bharat Package provides liquidity, market access, and procurement adjustments for MSMEs through expansion of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme, a Credit Guarantee Scheme for subordinate debt, and a Fund of Funds for equity infusion; it revises the MSME definition and amends procurement rules to limit global tenders under set thresholds, while deploying e governance portals to report dues, enable e marketing, and monitor timely payments by government entities.

Startup ecosystem support: policy should facilitate entrepreneurs while public-private collaboration and seed funding scale innovation.
The document emphasises startup promotion through facilitative government policy, noting DPIIT registration metrics and regional ecosystem competition. It describes the Startup India Seed Fund Program and the Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park, Pune, as key support mechanisms, portrays incubators as essential guides for early ventures, and advocates public-private collaboration and academia-industry-research linkages while urging limited government intervention and greater international cooperation.