Fifty-year-old Jayanti Bai Dhruv — a resident of Banbagaud village ... rural neighbourhoods mean young children can be trusted in the custody of neighbours or other family members, leaving the ...

MANDA BHOPAWAS, Rajasthan, India, Aug 31 (Reuters) - For Suraj Prajapati, a mother of two who lives in the arid northern Indian ... rural homes, Prajapati and a band of more than 10 other women ...

Similarly, organisations such as the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and the Indian Handloom Brand (IHB) have supported rural women ... in our village makes it hard ...

The Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has said that women living in rural areas lead the development of villages. Speaking at a programme to distribute profit to the members of self-help ...

HYDERABAD: In a significant step towards promoting financial independence among women’s groups in the state and expanding ...

AT a small stream in India's eastern state of Odisha, indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an ...

The term ‘rural women’ has fascinated me since ... bites and other security risks. woman in the village of Tooh Maar Sahjan Bai, an elderly Hindu woman, mother of 10 children, lives in the ...

Tulsi is like any other Indian village. The small outpost ... of income include a number of women who previously had few opportunities for advancement in this rural setting. Under the banyan ...

rural 24.6 per cent). Many factors have contributed to this climb up an Indian U curve, including changes in the convenience and safety of working, in social norms and in preferences. Women’s ...

Her husband, like the majority of men in her village ... to uplift the rural poor. Instead, economic stagnation is pulling men and women in opposite directions. On paper, the Indian economy ...

Kandabari, India – On a sunny morning in Kandabari village in the northern Indian state of ... is one of 31 women at the Sapna Center, which trains rural women from marginalised backgrounds ...

Four women educators have been recognized for innovative methods in delivering quality education to rural communities and ...