Page 11 - Rural India

When survival trumped bias

What years of education, social messaging and reservations couldn't accomplish, water scarcity did in one summer

Unemployment top worry, urban India thinks nation on right path: Survey

Poverty and social inequality are the top worries for global citizens followed by unemployment, crime and violence, financial and political corruption and healthcare, the survey pointed out

Rs 7-trn plan to provide internet access to rural areas by 2022 launched

For the mission, Rs 70,000 crore will come from the USOF

'Rural India driven into a hole': Congress attacks Centre's economic policy

Congress spokesperson Rajeev Gowda alleged that there is an agrarian distress but the government will ensure that no data comes out

Rural India open defecation free? Not quite, shows NSO survey report

In 2014, NDA govt had set a target of making rural areas open defecation free by October 2, 2019 by launching the Swachh Bharat Mission to "provide access to toilet facilities to all rural households"

Maharashtra, Haryana saw biggest drop in rural consumer spending: NSO data

Rural parts of Haryana and Maharashtra saw an 18 per cent fall in consumer spending in 2017-18, compared to 2011-12

Rural India can't recover until NBFCs do

An intricate web of links between rural incomes, construction activity and shadow banks are fuelling the economic slowdown

Rural India's e-Governance wing targets FMCG sales of Rs 100 crore

This would be a ten-fold growth over the last financial year, when CSCs had logged total sales worth Rs 10 crore

Brands, corporates should look at rural India's aspirations as opportunity

Brands must not forget the context when devising strategy

Doctor in ashram offers succor to 400 villages with Gandhian lifestyle

Vibha Augustin works in interior UP with belief that you have to be the change you want.

Story in numbers: What matters most in rural India

The charts here refer to the concerns of respondents in rural India