UPSC Aspirant 2025-26

Aspirational District Programme #GS-3

"The delta ranking devised by the NITI Aayog to measure and track the progress is also one of the unique features of the Aspirational District Programme. The focus for rankings shifts from absolute growth in numbers to percentage change in improvement, which allows a level playing ground for relatively backward districts to compete. The programme is a unique model that showcases competitive and co-operative federalism in the best spirits, writes Rouhin Deb. https://t.me/iv?url=https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/a-ray-of-hope-for-rural-india-aspirational-district-programme-adp/&rhash=e36df4d42d3427

"The real-world G7 diplomatic failure stands as an intellectual rebuke to Biden’s putative doctrine. This is because, in his over-simplification of the world, the Wilsonian President has assumed that, just because the democratic states have similar values, they are bound to have similar interests. The ineffectual G7 meeting showed this to be a gross over-simplification", writes John C Hulsman. https://t.me/iv?url=https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-failure-of-the-biden-doctrine-exposes-the-true-emerging-contours-of-the-world/&rhash=e36df4d42d3427