The Ministry of Rural Development has partnered with the Ministry of Skill Development to train women in self-help groups, ...

Some statistics stop you in your tracks. They don't just tell you a story - they change the very narrative of a nation. One such number is this: India's extreme poverty rate has fallen from 27.1 per ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to meet these electrification goals by installing record amounts of renewable energy. In 2014, he set a target to increase India's solar power ...

Children at a rural school in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are running a photoblog about daily life in their village, Kalleda. The school gives children from poor families a free ...

PM Modi hails rural resilience at Grameen Bharat Mahotsav; says rural prosperity is essential for national growth Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an inspiring address at the Grameen Bharat ...

She highlighted that nearly 70 to 80 percent of the country’s population lives in rural areas, making the development of these regions essential to the nation’s overall strength and growth.

India, March 5 -- The Indian Army, due to its deployments in far-fetched areas having little development, has actively undertaken rural development, particularly in remote and underserved areas ...

In 2000 India had just 545,000km of surfaced rural roads, usually of dubious quality. By last year, the country had added an additional 773,000km, at an annual average of 33,500km, under one ...