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 ...

A solar panel (165W) with battery and inverter has ensured uninterrupted power supply. This in turn has led to addition of TV-based learning which has made education more engaging and fun. The ...

Challenge In 2006, Bihar, one of India’s poorest and most populous State, had poor development infrastructure and service delivery and a complex political and social fabric. Limited inclusion of women ...

To enhance employability and promote sustainable livelihoods in rural India, a comprehensive state-level review of skill development programmes was held here in Haryana.

Raj M. Desai, Shareen Joshi, Collective Action and Community Development: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India, The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2014), pp. 492-524 ...

The SBI Youth for India Fellowship 2025 has invited applications from SBI employees, OCIs, NRIs, and citizens of Nepal and Bhutan for a 13-month fully funded rural development programme.

This paper analyses the spatial distribution of rural services in selected regions of three states in India (Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu), based on data collected over three decades.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lauds the successful rural development schemes in Dharmasthala, emphasizing their alignment with government policy and the empowerment of women through ...

Introduction The July 2025 round of the Rural Economic Conditions and Sentiments Survey (RECSS), a vital tool to evaluate the real-world impact of various government schemes and rural development ...

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 ...

Migration from rural parts of India has declined in villages that have installed mini-grids, while crop yields have increased by up to 40 per cent.