Government Schemes

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved eight Ministry of Railways projects costing ₹20,804 crore on 9 September. Five are multi-tracking works, among them third and fourth lines on the Arakkonam-Renigunta (77 km) and Whitefield-Bangarapet sections.

The Union government told the Supreme Court on 3 September that it had begun implementing a ₹24,000-crore Police Modernisation Mission, to run over five years, strengthening State police forces and the Central Armed Police Forces through greater use of technology. The submission came in a suo motu proceeding begun in 2025.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified ISM 2.0 at the end of August with an outlay of ₹1.28 lakh crore, covering a broad range of incentives for electronics manufacturing. The scheme’s category ‘pillars’ are fungible, so the share of investment each attracts is not fixed in advance.

The Union Rural Development Ministry said every worker registered under MGNREGA has been migrated to the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB-G RAM G, whether or not job-card e-KYC is complete. e-KYC has been done for 15.89 crore workers, including 10.27 crore of 10.84 crore active workers, leaving about 57 lakh active workers pending. Around 2.11 crore workers have so far been offered employment under the new scheme.

The Ministry of Rural Development launched Mission Samriddh Gaon on 26 August at Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, aiming at poverty-free villages where every rural family has a sustainable livelihood. It begins as a pilot in two Madhya Pradesh blocks — Budni in Sehore district and Khategaon in Dewas district. The design rests on family-level household mapping, convergence of departmental schemes, integrated farming systems and the Lakhpati Didi model.