In new initiative backed by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, is rethinking how rural innovations should be designed, evaluated and scaled, not as a trickle-down of ...

Celebrating 25 years in 2025, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) stands out as one of India’s most impactful rural ...

The Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA hosted a gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, raising $3.5 million to support the development of remote and rural villages in India. The event, themed ...

Looking down a street in Daulatpur, a rural village in Punjab, India with a mishmash of eclectic, colorful architecture, photographer Rajesh Vora felt he had struck lucky. In front of him, was a large ...

The villages of India serve as the cultural and heritage center, where age-old traditions, ideals, and customs stay very much alive. Among all of the villages in the country, however, one shines a ...

Rural India is now leading the nation's fixed deposit expansion. This marks a significant shift from past trends where metropolitan areas drove deposi ...

What happens when electricity stays on after sunset? Across 150 villages, here's how life changed as Gram Oorja helped ...

MNREGA is India’s landmark rural job guarantee scheme that promises up to 100 days of paid work each year. From its origins ...

According to the NSSO data, only 24% of rural Indian households have access to the Internet, compared to a 66% penetration in cities The growing rural teledensity, which currently stands at 59%, ...

With a new Modi government rural job guarantee set to replace NREGA, a look at what the UPA’s social security initiative had ...