New Delhi, The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Monday signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Bhaskaracharya ...

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 ...

One Village, One Plan” represents a pragmatic and scalable policy pathway to accelerate nutrition and development outcomes.

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

Suvojit Chattopadhyay works on issues of governance and development in East Africa and South Asia. The potential of local governance in India remains largely untapped. Here’s how capacity building and ...

As India sets its sights on becoming Viksit Bharat by 2047, the transformation of its rural economy is not just a policy imperative—it is the foundation of national progress. Nearly two-thirds of ...

The HDFC Bank is set to increase the income of 5 lakh marginal farmers earning less than ₹60,000 annually by 2025, scaling up further its over ₹5,000 crore investments in the corporate social ...

Since 2001, India has been constructing all-weather roads and upgrading old ones in rural areas across the country The World Bank has invested $2.1 billion in the country’s flagship Pradhan Mantri ...

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 ...

Nearly three-quarters of India’s families depend on rural incomes. The majority of India’s poor (some 770 million people or about 70 percent) are found in rural areas. India’s food security depends on ...