Executing regulatory and policy outcomes in India

Inside the System

A meeting is not a decision.

Most organisations ensure they are visible to the system. Very few ensure their matter is advancing within it.

Policy Making at the Highest Government Bodies

The Practice of Government Affairs in India

Live Matters

The structure that cleared counsel's review is not the structure that will clear DPIIT's reading.

The question not asked is an asset. The question asked is a position.

Cross-regulator alignment

GeM category creation for specialised products

Execution Pathways

A GST rate change does not begin at the Council. It begins at the Fitment Committee, and rarely reaches the Council if it cannot survive that room.

Organisations submitting proposals in January are responding to a process that has already concluded.

Customs, Duty & Tax Rationalisation

Incentives & Industrial Policy Execution

Representative Outcomes

An industrial incentive sanctioned and verified sat for eighteen months at the Treasury, where no sanctioning authority could reach.

A procurement platform designed for commodity catalogues cannot read patented-technology architecture; the reform addressed the platform.

Securing GTE relaxation for critical diagnostic technologies

BIS exemption for internal-use electronic devices