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Moving the Needle | October 2025
16-10-2025
The latest edition of Moving the Needle shares insights across –
- Nutritional security through the article “Nutrition Security-India's Next Development Frontier”- This article tries to identify the nutritional paradox in the country and how India can progress from food for all to nutritional food for all.
- Strengthening Digital infrastructure and deepening data backed policy making theough “Make in India, Build on Data: Future-Proofing India”. This article explores India’s trillion-rupee infrastructure push must be powered by data to cut delays, lower costs, and build greener, more resilient assets. A digital-first approach—through BIM, IoT, and strong governance can ensure every rupee builds lasting value.
- GST changes and its implication on health seeking behaviour through “Taxing Health or Healing Finances? Rethinking GST on Insurance”: Exempting health and life insurance from GST will play a key role in reducing premium costs, ensuring affordability, accessibility, and coverage for millions of households. This reform strengthens financial security and aligns with India’s vision of universal health coverage.
- This time we have introduced a new section where our team interviewed Mr. Anil Trigunayan (IFS) Retd, a former Indian diplomat with over three decades of experience in the Foreign Service. Through the interview , the effort was to understand the current geo-political situation and how is India poised to navigate and stride through the various geo-political scenarios in the world and in the process also live up to the dream to Viksit Bharat.