G.Y.A.N. par DHYAN — National Seminar

The Premise

A welfare floor, fully built. A productivity ceiling, still open.

India's decade of saturation-mode delivery has, for the first time in the Republic's history, met the basic-survival needs of nearly 1.4 billion citizens. The question this seminar asks is what comes next.

The paradox

Despite welfare saturation, productivity and enterprise-formation across the GYAN universe remain sub-optimal. Scheme delivery is institutionally siloed across more than thirty central ministries; vernacular capacity-building is fragmentary; and there is no unified decision-support architecture to channel welfare-liberated beneficiaries into cooperative-based productive collectives that turn waste into wealth.

The organising idea — DHYAN

Dedication and Holistic Yes-spirit drive Aatmanirbhar Nation-building for every citizen of Bharat. DHYAN — focused, dedicated attention — asks scholarship and policy to concentrate, with the steadiness of meditation, on the four constituencies whose simultaneous economic uplift the Viksit Bharat 2047 target depends upon.

Why the seminar matters now

01

The welfare floor is established. Headline coverage across all four pillars confirms survival-level needs have been addressed at population scale.

02

The digital substrate has matured. Aadhaar, UPI, AgriStack, ABHA, e-Shram, ONDC and the Bhashini language stack make an integrated, multilingual platform technically feasible.

03

The demographic window is finite. With a median age below twenty-nine, the productive transformation of India's youth cohort cannot be deferred.

Four Amrit Stambh

The GYAN pillars

Each pillar carries its own scheme architecture, its own conversion frontier, and ten dedicated sub-themes open for contribution.

PILLAR I

Garib · Poor

80.67 cr

covered by free foodgrain under PMGKAY, extended to Dec 2028

PM Awas Yojana — ~3.85 cr rural houses sanctioned
PM Jan Dhan Yojana — 56.16 cr accounts, 55.7% held by women
PM-SVANidhi — 96 lakh+ loans to street vendors

From welfare to work: pathways off subsidy dependence
Studying the drivers of the 24.82-crore MPI exit
Financial inclusion to financial capability
Street-vendor and informal-sector formalisation
Housing, habitat and local-resource livelihoods
MGNREGA-to-asset convergence
Multi-stakeholder cooperatives for the poor
Last-mile convergence and DISHA accountability
Digital and financial literacy for low-literacy citizens
Measuring dignity and agency beyond income

PILLAR II

Yuva · Youth

1.97 lakh+

DPIIT-recognised startups, generating 21+ lakh direct jobs

PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana — 1.60 crore+ trained
Employment Linked Incentive — targets 3.5 cr+ jobs
PM Mudra Yojana — ₹32.61 lakh cr in collateral-light credit

Closing the skill–job mismatch
Youth-led enterprise beyond metros
Employment-linked incentives in practice
Youth cooperatives and producer companies
Digital and AI skills for the rising workforce
Apprenticeship, internship and industry linkage
Innovation, tinkering and grassroots problem-solving
Access to capital for young entrepreneurs
Migration, local opportunity and reverse-migration
Youth as change-agents in GYAN delivery

PILLAR III

Annadata · Farmers

10,000

FPOs achieved, with 56.32 lakh farmer-members

PM-KISAN — ₹4.27 lakh cr+ to 11 cr+ families
Kisan Credit Card — 7.72 crore operative cards
PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana — 36 schemes, 117 KPIs

Scaling Farmer Producer Organisations
Processing-led waste-into-wealth value addition
Beyond MSP: market linkage and price realisation
PMDDKY convergence in underperforming districts
Agri-credit, insurance and risk management
Technology in agriculture — AgriStack, drones, AI
Natural and sustainable farming
One District One Product and Geographical Indications
Non-timber forest produce and tribal value-chains
Climate resilience and the local-loop farm economy

PILLAR IV

Nari Shakti · Women

3.01 cr

Lakhpati Didis achieved, against a 6-crore target by 2029–30

DAY-NRLM SHGs — 10.05 cr households, ₹12.18 lakh cr credit
Gender Budget — ₹4.49 lakh cr, 8.86% of FY26 outlay
Namo Drone Didi — women as agri-technology providers

The Lakhpati Didi pathway
Women-led producer companies
From cash transfer to productive investment
SHG credit, banking correspondents and Bank Sakhis
Women in agri-technology
Decision-making power and household agency
Digital and financial literacy for women
Maternal welfare to economic participation
Women's leadership in cooperatives and local governance
Safety, mobility and the enabling environment

From welfare to productivity

The five-stage ladder

India has substantially completed the first two stages for much of the GYAN universe. The seminar — and the proposed GYAN Platform — is a transition-engineering technology for the three stages still ahead.

1

Survival

Basic needs met

2

Stability

Assets & accounts

3

Skilling

Capabilities built

4

Synergy

Cooperative scale

5

Sovereignty

Aatmanirbhar self-reliance

The Flagship Idea

One Nation, One GYAN Platform

A single, multilingual, AI-enabled window that brings citizens, cooperatives, officials, banks, industry and academia together — not a parallel system, but an integrating layer built on India's sovereign Digital Public Infrastructure.

L1

Access

Multilingual, voice-first interface across mobile, web and IVR for feature phones — all 22 scheduled languages via Bhashini.

L2

Intelligence

AI advisory & eligibility engine — Indic LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation over verified scheme documents.

L3

Convergence

Cooperative-pathway & district-economy engine matching beneficiaries to SHGs, FPOs and waste-into-wealth opportunities.

L4

Trust

Consent-based data & payments — DPDP-compliant, UPI/DBT-enabled, with a tamper-evident audit trail.

Built on India's Digital Public Infrastructure

AadhaarUPIAgriStackABHAe-ShramONDCBhashini

Already operational at scale

The Government has begun moving toward convergence-based delivery, giving the platform concept a working precedent rather than a blank slate.

PMDDKY converges 36 schemes across 11 departments in 100 districts, tracked on 117 KPIs
ABHA has crossed 90 crore health accounts; e-Shram has registered 30.95 crore+ workers
DISHA committees already coordinate central-scheme implementation at district level
UPI processed over 228 billion transactions in 2025

For Contributors

Forty sub-themes, six objectives

Submissions may engage any of the forty sub-themes above, or the cross-cutting questions on convergence, platform design, trust & privacy, measurement and evidence quality.

Convergence governanceCross-cutting

Multilingual, voice-first platform design for low-literacy usersCross-cutting

Consent-based data architecture under the DPDP regimeCross-cutting

Measuring welfare-to-productivity beyond incomeCross-cutting

Standardising and dating scheme-coverage evidenceCross-cutting

Call for Papers & Book Chapters

Contribute to the edited volume

Original, unpublished research papers and book chapters are invited from academicians, research scholars, policymakers, practitioners, technologists and postgraduate students.

₹0

No registration fee

No fee for authors submitting papers or chapters.

ISBN

National publication

All accepted work published in a peer-reviewed edited volume.

20

National Awards

Ten for best research papers, ten for best book chapters.

Jan 20

2027 deadline

Firm last date for submission of full papers and chapters.

Manuscript guidelines

Language	English or Hindi; bilingual abstracts encouraged
Abstract	500 words, 4–6 keywords, theme & sub-theme indicated
Research paper	3,500–6,000 words including references, tables & figures
Book chapter	5,000–8,000 words including references, tables & figures
Format	MS Word (.docx), A4, Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 spacing, 1″ margins, justified
Referencing	APA 7th edition; all scheme data sourced and dated
Originality	Unpublished; similarity index within UGC limit (≤10%)
Co-authorship	Maximum of three authors per submission

How to submit

Manuscripts are submitted electronically with the subject line "GYAN par DHYAN — [Theme No.] — [Author Surname]." A separate title page should carry author names, affiliations and contact details; the manuscript body itself should be anonymised for double-blind review.

All submissions undergo double-blind peer review. Acceptance is communicated by email, with reviewer feedback where revisions are sought. Awards are adjudged on originality, methodological rigour, empirical or design contribution, and policy relevance.

seminar.gyanpardhyan@institute.edu

Program Schedule

Five milestones, five months

Sep 2026

High-level discussion

Swadeshi Shodh Sansthan, New Delhi

Oct 2026

High-level discussion

ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

Nov 2026

High-level discussion

University of Agder, Norway

Dec 2026

Sensitisation program

IIT Roorkee

Jan 2027

Culminating session

Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak

Seminar Secretariat

Organising Leadership

The seminar is coordinated by the Organising Secretary and three Co-Organising Secretaries representing the partner institutions. Click on any photo to upload or update.