Human resource development drives higher education expansion to build specialised skills for international trade and economic competitiveness.
The IIFT Kakinada campus expansion is described as a policy instrument to develop specialised human capital for international trade, supplying expert management and technical skills to strengthen India's global commercial competitiveness. Government budgetary allocations under Atman Nirbhar Bharat are identified as measures that fortify the economic system, while promotion of local products, artisans and regional sectors like agriculture, fisheries and special economic zones is highlighted as complementary to institutional capacity building.

Investor education initiatives expand financial literacy and protection in Jammu & Kashmir through targeted outreach and community programmes.
IEPFA launched targeted investor education and protection measures in Jammu & Kashmir, including a public mascot, a women led Niveshak Didi programme with India Post Payment Bank, a mobile Niveshak Sarathi van for remote outreach, an Investors' Handbook, and dedicated Investor Awareness Programmes across the Union Territory, reinforcing its mandate to promote investor education, awareness and protection and to administer the IEPF.

Infrastructure financing: call to scale up investments in clean energy, resilience, social and digital sectors and mobilize private capital.
The Finance Minister urged AIIB to prioritise scaled investments in clean energy and energy efficiency, disaster-resilient infrastructure, social infrastructure (education and health), and digital infrastructure; to mobilise diverse private sector resources and augment its own resources by considering G20 Expert Panel recommendations on MDB capital adequacy; and to expand technical assistance and establish full-fledged country offices to translate strategies into investment plans.

Climate and development finance must be coordinated by multilateral banks to mobilize concessional financing and private capital.
The World Bank Group should expand its role by promoting energy efficiency and reducing food loss, differentiating distortive subsidies from targeted support, and convening stakeholders to craft investment strategies that observe common but differentiated responsibilities. Operational priorities include behaviour-change programmes, concessional finance and technology transfer for green energy, regional integration via IDA and IBRD, risk mitigation to attract private capital, increasing grant shares, supporting subnational and cross-border climate projects, and aligning MDB capital adequacy reforms to sustain financing.

Increase IMF resources to strengthen support for emerging and low income countries and adjust voting representation.
Call for increase in IMF resources and timely conclusion of the Sixteenth General Review of Quotas to realign voting shares; expand Fund instruments to address balance of payments vulnerabilities and new food shock financing to aid food insecure countries. Emphasises debt distress risks and the need for targeted Fund support. Domestically, highlights subsidised food distribution and digital financial inclusion to protect vulnerable populations and manage inflation. Advocates a multilateral climate finance approach based on equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, calling for transfer of finance and low cost technologies to developing countries.

Learning recovery: India outlines national assessments, digital tools, and support to scale education recovery globally.
India used large-scale assessments to quantify COVID-era learning loss and then deployed evidence-based remedial and capacity-building measures. Key responses include the National Achievement Survey and a National Foundation Learning Study to assess foundational skills; technology-enabled remedial programmes and "Teach at the Right Level" grouping; an Alternative Academic Calendar and NISHTHA teacher training; digital delivery via the DIKSHA platform (with QR-coded textbooks); and volunteer mobilisation through Vidyanjali 2.0. India offered DIKSHA internationally and urged the World Bank to support Learning Loss Recovery Action Plans.

SME listing platform expansion enhances market access and capital-raising pathways for small companies, with steps to boost investor outreach.
BSE SME Platform has attained 400 listed companies after eight new listings, functioning under securities rules to enable SMEs to raise equity, mature into full companies, and migrate to the Main Board; the announcement highlights promotional steps to attract international and domestic investors, operational enhancements like technology services and startup interfaces, and policy priorities-technology engagement, reduced compliance, decriminalisation, innovation promotion, logistics improvement, and free trade agreements-to support SME capital formation and market integration.

International economic cooperation pursued through multilateral meetings and bilateral talks to promote investment and digital public goods.
The Union Finance Minister will attend the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings and the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings, holding bilateral talks and one-on-one meetings with multilateral leaders to advance mutual economic interests. The visit spotlights India's Digital Public Goods narrative and the Technology Finance Governance nexus, with public engagements and roundtables aimed at promoting investment, innovation and measures to facilitate foreign investment in India's digital and economic corridors.

Competition enforcement expansion: new western regional office enhances regulator accessibility and competition advocacy across diverse stakeholders.
Opening a western regional office of the Competition Commission of India establishes CCI presence in the financial hub to enhance competition enforcement and regulatory accessibility, strengthen advocacy outreach, and enable early intervention in competition concerns including those in digital markets. The inauguration coincided with release of a pictorial e publication on CCI's journey and newly translated advocacy booklets in Urdu and Punjabi covering filing procedures, cartels, bid rigging, abuse of dominance, combinations and leniency to broaden stakeholder awareness across languages.