Keep up-to-date with all that is happening in welfare policy with this curated selection of news, published every fortnight.

Policy News

• The Ministry of Labour and Employment has released draft rules for the Code on Social Security, 2020 for comments from stakeholders. To learn more about the Code on Social Security, download the Policy Brief.
• The government has launched the National Portal for Transgender Persons through which transgender persons can apply for gender identity certificates online.
• ‘Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge’ has been launched to promote mechanised cleaning and to ensure that no person needs to enter a sewer or septic tank, unless absolutely unavoidable.
• The Agriculture Ministry approved subsidised loans worth Rs 3,971.31 crore for the implementation of micro-irrigation projects.
• The government has launched ‘Har Ghar Nal Yojna’ for Sonbhadra and Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. The scheme aims at providing water to over 41 lakh villagers in the two districts.

Others

• A Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Investor Map for India has been launched by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Invest India, laying out 18 Investment Opportunity Areas in six SDG enabling sectors.
• The government has launched ‘India Climate Change Knowledge Portal’, a comprehensive portal that captures sector-wise adaptation and mitigation actions being taken by the various ministries.