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Working at grassroots, a social venture is connecting rural India to world

They also set up a village development committee comprising of people from the village that carries forward the work in the community

Baskets stitched by women in a village in Bareilly under Mrida Group
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Baskets stitched by women in a village in Bareilly under Mrida Group

Sneha Bhattacharjee
Working at the grassroots and empowering the people in rural areas to build their own destiny, a social venture is making a difference in remote parts of the country

A social business venture set up four years ago by four corporates who wanted to bring the corporate vigor to rural development — that’s how Mrida was born. Since then, the four-member team now has 38 people onboard with presence in 38 villages across six different states and impacting over 20,000 people in a month. What started as a rural development project with major focus being on electrifying rural areas with