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 ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how ...

Adachiwadi located in Pune district's Purandar taluka around 250 km from Mumbai, has emerged as an example of community-led transformation ...

Three ordinary women from Madhya Pradesh, supported by Transform Rural India, became the most powerful change-makers their villages had ever seen.

Kanadukathan lies around a one and a half hour drive along rural highways from the nearest airport. It has many features travellers would expect from a remote South Indian village: cows grazing freely ...

But supply constraints remain, making it unlikely that India will reach its target of vaccinating all adults by the end of 2021. Volunteers perform a street play during an awareness campaign for COVID ...

International Women's Day often celebrates CEOs, politicians and celebrities. But some of the most powerful transformations in India are happening far from the spotlight -- inside village panchayats, ...

NEW DELHI – In the small village of Alwar, Rajasthan, eighteen-year-old Afseena sat on the mud floor of her home, flipping through the worn pages of her only textbook. She had read the same lessons ...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/how-climate-smart-villages-are-building-rural-resilience-in-india/article70689073.ece Copy Rural India has ...

Two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people live in rural areas. Voices from these communities, and issues important to them, however, often aren’t represented in mainstream news coverage. “The primary ...

Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi on Thursday said villages across the country were facing distress and accused the Union government of putting labourers in a “bad situation” by ending the rural ...

Outside a three-room concrete building coated in faded red paint, Neeral Kullu was waiting anxiously. The 35-year-old farmer had spent the late August morning walking across miles of jungle, dirt ...