By bno Chennai Office India, the world’s most populous nation, has long stood at the crossroads of opportunity and ...

In response to the problems of high coordination costs among the poor, efforts are underway in many countries to organize the poor through "self-help groups" (SHGs)—membership-based organizations that ...

India’s JEEViKA program ( i.e., livelihoods), financed by the World Bank, works exclusively with women from poor rural families and has transformed livelihoods in the state of Bihar. Between 2008 to ...

Shakuntala Devi of Kulabira village in Jharkhand state travels to other distant states to sell her finger millet snacks whenever the Indian government organises fairs to showcase rural products. From ...

Mangaluru: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the rural development activities of Dharmasthala institutions that empower women are fit to be part of govt policy. She was speaking ...

Dr. Prashant Prabhakar Deshpande has post-graduated in Economics with a Gold Medal in 1976 and was awarded a Ph.D in Social Sciences from Nagpur University in 2007. The July 2025 round of the Rural ...

The Muthoot Group supports rural development programme, the Shantigram Project which aims at the qualitative development of the lifestyle of about 20,000 poor and underprivileged inhabitants of 10 ...

The Census 2027 offers a unique opportunity for revisiting the parameters and indicators for demarcation of rural and urban areas in India. In fact, the policies for rural and urban development in the ...

In India, as a result of development, the demand for water is increasing both in urban and rural areas. This may increase tensions and disputes over sharing of water resources. For water demand ...