Five year scheme appraisal cycle mandates third party evaluations to recalibrate, merge, or discontinue centrally funded schemes.
A structured five year appraisal and approval exercise has been launched for Centrally Sponsored Schemes and Central Sector Schemes, aligned with the Finance Commission cycle. The process mandates scheme evaluations tied to sunset dates and third party assessments to guide redesign, merger, closure, or continuation. Departments will use evaluation recommendations to remove redundancies, improve targeting, attach conditionalities, and determine resource envelopes, while avoiding fund parking to redeploy savings.

Minimum Support Price increases for kharif crops raise guaranteed farmer margins, aligning MSP with cost plus policy.
The Cabinet approved increased Minimum Support Prices for fourteen Kharif crops for marketing season 2025-26, specifying MSPs, underlying cost of production components and year on year increases. The policy implements an MSP benchmark tied to at least one and a half times the all India weighted average cost of production to secure targeted margins over cost, highlights crops with the largest MSP rises, and summarizes recent procurement volumes and MSP disbursements.

Foreign Direct Investment policy supports increased inflows through liberalisation and automatic route expansion, boosting sectoral and regional investment.
India's investor-oriented Foreign Direct Investment policy-notably broad access to 100% FDI via the automatic route and phased liberalisations since 2014-has coincided with rising inflows, reaching USD 81.04 billion in FY 2024-25, led by services and supported by growth in manufacturing. Regulatory reforms increasing sectoral FDI caps and expanding automatic-route access (including in coal mining, contract manufacturing and insurance intermediaries), together with a 2025 Budget proposal to raise FDI limits for certain companies, constitute the primary mechanisms driving expanded and diversified investment.

National Retail Trade Policy inclusion of grassroots participation urged; digital transformation and vocal for local promoted for traders.
National policy direction emphasises inclusive formulation of a National Retail Trade Policy with mandated grassroots participation, calling for submissions from Board members and enhanced outreach of Government welfare schemes; representations from trade associations have been forwarded to Ministries for action. The Board also promoted the Vocal for Local initiative and digital transformation through onboarding of local retailers onto platforms like the Open Network for Digital Commerce to expand market access, alongside Budget commitments to regulatory simplification, financial assistance, and infrastructure development for traders and MSMEs.

Minimum necessary, maximum feasible principle steers competition regulation, shaping merger guidance and digital market oversight.
The address and statements advocate a calibrated competition regulatory framework guided by the minimum necessary, maximum feasible principle to preserve open, contestable markets while enabling growth. CCI's toolkit combines enforcement, advocacy, market studies (including on AI), and institutional measures such as a Digital Markets Division. Practical compliance instruments released include a Diagnostic Toolkit for public procurement to detect bid rigging and FAQs on combinations reflecting the Competition (Amendment) Act reforms and the newly notified Combination Regulations, clarifying deal value thresholds, substantial business operations in India, and updated merger procedures.

National accounts statistics release updates GDP and sectoral aggregates, informing fiscal and policy analysis framework.
The National Accounts Statistics - 2025 provides updated national income estimates under the SNA framework at current and constant (2011-12) prices, incorporating revised GDP estimates and updated administrative and survey inputs to present detailed measures of GDP, GVA, consumption, savings, capital formation and sectoral breakdowns across households, corporates and government, supported by an annexure enumerating comprehensive statement-level tables for use in policy and structural analysis.