Explained: India’s Startup Ecosystem 2025
- India
- October 24, 2025

India replaced MGNREGA with the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, marking a shift from a demand-driven job guarantee to a budget-managed rural employment system. This explainer examines the reasons, data, constitutional impact, and risks.
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Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (RIIT) marks a decisive shift in how India’s national highways are financed and governed. By opening highway monetisation to retail investors, NHAI is transforming roads from public infrastructure into yield-oriented assets. This explainer examines what RIIT means for toll behaviour, governance, and—most critically—the everyday experience of road users across India.
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India exposes the limits of regime change and democracy export. Using verified data from V-Dem, Polity IV, and World Bank indicators, this explainer shows why democratic continuity, institutional depth, and civilisational legitimacy matter more than externally engineered transitions—contrasting India’s resilience with Pakistan, Bangladesh, and post-intervention states.
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India’s Parliament has acknowledged that economic growth in today’s world will be slower, riskier, and more contested than in the past. This explainer examines how lawmakers see India’s growth prospects amid global trade fragmentation, tariff uncertainty, energy transition pressures, fiscal constraints, and technological disruption—and where the roadmap still falls short of execution.
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India’s Energy Storage Strategy explains how batteries and pumped hydro are being embedded into grid planning to ensure stability in a renewable-heavy power system.
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India’s New Nuclear Energy Act 2025 marks a decisive shift from monopoly control to regulated participation. This explainer shows why repeal was inevitable and how nuclear fits India’s clean-energy future.
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