Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan highlights unprecedented advancements in rural development, citing schemes like PMGSY and PM Awas Yojana. The Economic Survey reflects significant poverty ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari declared, 'There is no dearth of money in this country. There is no shortage of funds. There is a need for political leaders to work honestly for villages, the poor and ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Providing unskilled public work, the jobs scheme has become a backbone of rural livelihoods in India [Hindustan Times via Getty ...

India’s new rural employment law offers greater fiscal predictability at the cost of higher household exposure to labour-market risk ...

Rural India’s arkestra dancers face poverty, harassment, and societal prejudice, with limited support and exposure, ...

Recent government consumption data presents a worrying reality: rural households are spending more on gutkha than on ...

Rising incomes and improving literacy rates, particularly in rural and lower-income regions, and rising internet penetration to drive TV viewer numbers, says report by IIMA Professors Viswanath ...

India is home to one of the world's most ambitious social programmes - a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, ...