Article 245 of the Indian Constitution grants the Parliament the authority to enact laws and, at
the same time, provides the legislative body with the power to revoke or abolish those laws.1 A Repealing and Amending Bill is a type of law that aims to remove outdated laws and make changes to specific parts of existing laws. This bill is designed to modernize the legal system, get rid of old rules, and adjust current regulations to meet the needs of society and changing times.
The contents and terms of each Repealing and Amending Bill can differ based on the area and time period being considered.

The 1992 Rio Summit (or United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), to
which India is a signatory, made it obligatory to ensure legal compliance with the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD) that aims at conservation, sustainable use, and equitable sharing of
biological resources. Subsequently, India enacted the Biological Diversity Act in 2002 to
establish necessary statutory and administrative mechanisms at the national level to realize the
above objectives. The primary objectives of the 2002 Act comprise safeguarding biological
diversity along with traditional knowledge, promoting sustainable use of biodiversity, and
ensuring equal distribution of benefits deriving from biological diversity.

This is the second and final entry in Swaniti’s examination of the current socio-economic and government service delivery context in Uttar Pradesh. The previous paper developed an understanding of the state’s recent economic trajectory, including employment, as well as other key social development indicators and disparities between districts and for marginalized communities.

The budget for 2023-24 is the last full-fledged budget of the current government. Presenting its overall fifth and first Amrit Kal budget, the Hon’ble Finance Minister forecasted 7 percent growth citing India as a bright spot in today’s world amidst all the global challenges thrown on us by the pandemic and the war.

This is the first entry in Swaniti’s two-part series on the socio-economic landscape of Uttar Pradesh, the government schemes being implemented to address key issues across the state, where gaps in service delivery exist and how they may be filled going forward. In this paper, we seek to develop an understanding of the socio-economic situation in the state, providing the foundation for a further examination of government schemes and service delivery gaps.

The Three Farm Bills: Indian Agriculture Watershed Moment?   Illiberal Agriculture Policies: Stagnating Incomes, Declining Growth   For long in India, the laws governing agriculture markets remains anarchic. The State has found reasons to overregulate the agriculture sector- regulating prices, banning exports, restricting private trade, regulating markets etc. Excessive regulations and lack of freedoms hampered […]

Executive Summary   The socio-economic crisis precipitated by the fallout of COVID19 pandemic and the intermittent lockdown undertaken to contain the spread of the virus has adversely impacted millions of households, especially the vulnerable and deprived households. It has pushed multiple such poor income households to further shocks of loss of income and livelihood. This […]

MACRO POLICY IMPEDIMENTS FOR WOMEN CARE IN INDIA   By Devanshi Singh and Roshni Sekhar   Contents About the Report………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Critical Policy Gaps Governing Women Health in India…………………………………………. 5 Accreditation system………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Gender-Insensitive mental health services………………………………………………….. 5 Management of maternal health services……………………………………………………. 5 Convergence between schemes………………………………………………………………… 6 Lack of reliable estimates of […]

Agriculture is the bedrock of the Indian economy primarily because of the source of livelihood for about 58 per cent of India’s population.

On July 15th, 2019 Swaniti had the opportunity to present to 19 Andhra Pradesh Parliamentarians on issues of livelihood.