Research Themes
Ten Themes for the Conference
Research papers, concept papers, suggestion papers and book chapters are invited under ten themes — spanning the full architecture of a Fully Employed Bharat.
Section I — Conceptual
📌 Self-employment & informal economy · 56.2% PLFS 2025
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Theme 01 · Conceptual
Defining Employment for Bharat's Demographic Reality
Establishing a definition that reflects India's lived reality — embracing every livelihood from self-employment to artisanship, farming, platform work, and care work. PLFS 2025 confirms 56.2% of workers are self-employed.
1.1 The livelihood economy in focus: MSMEs, SHGs, agri-livelihoods, shopkeepers and the micro-retail employment economy.
1.2 A Self-Employment Security Index (SSI) and Livelihood Index to measure what job-counts miss.
1.3 A structured policy model for 31.38 crore e-Shram-registered informal and gig workers.
1.4 Counting the invisible: women-enterprise, unpaid family labour and care work in GDP.
1.5 Eliminating "unemployment" from educational institutions — from deficit to asset.
🏛️ 58,000+ HEIs · IITs · NITs · ICAR
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Theme 02 · Conceptual
Institutions as Employment Engines: Students, Alumni & Educational Ecosystem
Uniting 58,000+ HEIs, IITs, NITs and ICAR institutions to map final-year students and alumni — channelling them towards gainful employment and enterprise. Education as an employment engine.
2.1 Institutional Self-Reliance Centres across 58,000+ HEIs, universities, IITs, NITs and ICAR institutions.
2.2 A unified student-and-alumni employment registry with tracer studies and vernacular career facilitation.
2.3 Embedding MSME, entrepreneurship and startup ecosystems inside campuses.
2.4 The Mindset Mission: NEP 2020 from policy to practice for Gen-G & Gen-Z.
2.5 District capacity-building centres for green, blue and emerging sectors.
Section II — Logical
📊 80-crore NFSA · multi-income-stream
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Theme 03 · Logical
Lifting Livelihoods Above the Poverty Line
A multi-income-stream model linking low-income households to one unified platform — including Lakhpati Didi, SHE-Mahila Mart, and the 80-crore NFSA base linked to productive micro-enterprise.
3.1 A multi-income-stream model for low-income households on one unified platform.
3.2 Women through cooperative entrepreneurship: Lakhpati Didi and SHE-Mahila Mart.
3.3 Anna Bhi, Udyam Bhi: linking the 80-crore NFSA base to productive micro-enterprise.
3.4 Portable social security, insurance and credit for the sub-₹4-lakh stakeholder.
3.5 A district micro-employment ecosystem: PM Ekta Mall and the swadeshi e-marketplace.
🌾 10,000 FPOs · community networks
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Theme 04 · Logical
Cooperative & Community-Based Employment Models
Building on the 10,000-FPO milestone — community employment networks in every educational institution, SHG-women cooperative employment, and collectivising small and marginal farmers.
4.1 A community employment network in every educational institution.
4.2 SHG-women cooperative employment and a PACS employment roadmap through HEIs.
4.3 Farmer-Producer Organisations: building on the 10,000-FPO milestone with universities.
4.4 Cooperative education: the role of Tribhuvan Sahkari University and hub-and-spoke skilling.
4.5 Collectivising small and marginal farmers for capacity-building and market access.
Section III — Technological
🖧 One Nation, One Employment Platform
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Theme 05 · Technological
National Employment Digital Architecture & Public Digital Infrastructure
One Nation, One Employment Platform — building the multi-layered digital architecture, employment identity systems, inter-operable public digital-data governance, and population-scale employment information systems.
5.1 One Nation, One Employment Platform Multi-Layered Digital Architecture.
5.2 Employment Identity, Registry & Verification Systems.
5.3 Inter-Operable Public Digital-Data Governance Infrastructure.
5.4 Privacy-Authentication & Multi-Layered Cybersecurity Frameworks.
5.5 Population-Scale Employment Information Systems.
🇮🇳 Swadeshi RAG · indigenous stack
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Theme 06 · Technological
Software Architecture & Swadeshi Server
Swadeshi RAG Architecture for the Bharat Employment Platform, National Server Infrastructure, distributed systems, vector databases, cybersecurity, privacy protection, digital sovereignty, and indigenous digital ecosystems.
6.1 Swadeshi RAG Architecture for the Bharat Employment Platform.
6.2 National Server Infrastructure, Data Centres and Digital Public Infrastructure.
6.3 Distributed Systems, Vector Databases and Employment Knowledge Platforms.
6.4 Cybersecurity, Privacy Protection and Digital Sovereignty.
6.5 Open-Source Technologies and Indigenous Digital Ecosystems.
🧠 AI/ML · Blockchain · Edge
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Theme 07 · Technological
Emerging Technologies for Bharat Employment Platform
AI, ML & DL for intelligent employment services — Big Data Analytics, Cloud/Edge Computing, Blockchain-based digital identity, IoT, automation, and future workforce ecosystems.
7.1 AI, ML & DL and Intelligent Employment Services.
7.2 Big Data Analytics and Employment Intelligence Systems.
7.3 Cloud Computing, Edge Computing and Digital Infrastructure.
7.4 Blockchain, Digital Identity and Trusted Employment Records.
7.5 Internet of Things (IoT), Automation and Future Workforce Ecosystems.
Section IV — Executional
🚀 2 lakh+ startups · 21 lakh jobs
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Theme 08 · Executional
MSMEs, Startups & Entrepreneurship as the Core of Employment
Industry-Academia-MSME innovation convergence — PMEGP, MUDRA, Startup India, PMKVY and ANRF. 2 lakh+ startups, 21 lakh jobs, half in Tier-II/III towns. Credit as employment infrastructure.
8.1 Industry-Academia-MSME innovation: PMEGP, MUDRA, Startup India, PMKVY and ANRF convergence.
8.2 Startup India for the heartland: 2 lakhs+ startups, 21 lakh jobs, half in Tier-II/III towns.
8.3 Credit as employment infrastructure: MUDRA (52 Cr. + loans), Stand-Up India and credit guarantees.
8.4 Cluster and district enterprise development: PLI, GeM live sellers and ONDC onboarding.
8.5 From quantity to quality: formalisation, productivity and survival of micro-enterprises.
🏺 18 crafts · 30 lakh artisans · 96L+ loans
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Theme 09 · Executional
Artisans, Vendors, Traders & Traditional Livelihood Economy
PM Vishwakarma — 18 crafts, 30 lakh artisans, toolkits & credit. PM SVANidhi street-vendor empowerment: 96 lakh+ loans. Micro-retailers, National Haat framework, shopkeepers and ONDC integration.
9.1 PM Vishwakarma: 18 crafts, 30 lakh artisans — toolkits, credit and modern-market access.
9.2 PM SVANidhi and street-vendor empowerment: 96 lakhs+ loans and UPI-linked credit.
9.3 Micro-retailers: first-time enumeration and simplified Aadhaar-based registration.
9.4 A National Haat, Weekly-Market and Mela framework integrated with e-NAM.
9.5 Shopkeepers and retail traders: ONDC and GeM onboarding.
📜 National Employment Policy Act 2026
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Theme 10 · Executional
One Nation, One Employment Platform: Implementation, Governance & Service Delivery
National Employment Policy Act 2026, governance framework for employment data, integrated service delivery, multiple-governance monitoring & evaluation, National Employment Cards and citizen service ecosystem.
10.1 National Employment Policy (Act 2026) passed in the Parliament 2026 (Bill).
10.2 Governance Framework for Employment Data, Services and Institutions.
10.3 Integrated Service Delivery for Employment, Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship.
10.4 Multiple-Governance Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Management Framework.
10.5 National Employment Cards, Certificates and Citizen Service Ecosystem.
