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Retail inflation for farm and rural workers increase in February

Retail inflation for farm workers and rural labourers rose to 2.67 per cent and 2.76 per cent in February against 2.17 per cent and 2.35 per cent respectively in January, 2021

Indian biggest fuel retailers gearing up for rural-led economic rebound

The increasing economic importance of India's hinterlands is influencing business expansion plans and accelerating a trend of more service stations being opened in the countryside

Highest ever spending under MNREGA during FY21: FM Sitharman

Sitharman claimed Modi-led NDA government has removed all ills from the rural-employment guarantee scheme MNREGA

Nabard disburses Rs 16,500 cr under RIDF in first 10 months of FY21

Nabard said it has sanctioned Rs 30,200 crore in the same time

India's $500 billion Budget to spur growth leaves little for the poor

The budget -- among India's most highly anticipated and closely watched events -- didn't have major proposals to address the job losses, hunger, and rising pressures on the farming and rural sectors

School students owning smartphone in rural India up 61% in 2 yrs: Survey

The percentage of school students owning a smartphone in rural India has increased from over 36 per cent to 61 per cent in the last two years, the Economic Survey 2020-21 noted

PM releases Rs 2,691 crore for PMAY-G beneficiaries, slams previous govts

Modi said the poor had to the bear the brunt of 'wrong' policies and intentions

Draft scheme to give jobs to youth in tribal villages: Gadkari to officials

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday asked the Tribal Affairs Ministry to coordinate with the MSME Ministry and come up with a scheme to provide employment to 25 people in every tribal village in India. The minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Road Transport & Highways said five crore jobs should be created by the MSME sector this year. He observed that there are 6.5 crore MSME units in the country and 11 crore jobs have been created through the sector till now. Gadkari said the turnover of village industries at present is Rs 80,000 crore, which needs to be increased to Rs 5 lakh crore. "I request you to draft a scheme in coordination with us to provide jobs to 25 people in every tribal village in the country, which we will finance," Gadkari told the Secretary in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The minister said he has heard that his effigies were burnt in some parts of China to express displeasure after imposition of heavy import duty on bamboo sticks by

Tata Motors only truck maker to reduce discounts, says CV unit chief

Girsh wagh says firm took a bold decision to prune incentives by almost a third during BS VI transition

India's a digital payments hotspot

With social distancing becoming the new norm, there is a behavioural shift across all consumer categories

100% rise in rural children with access to smartphones, says survey

The survey found that around 11 per cent of families bought a new phone after the lockdown, of which 80 per cent were smartphones

From Gangtok to Gir, Flipkart and Amazon festive sales traverse India

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the shift to e-commerce, with an increasing number of consumers shopping online at a higher frequency

Retail inflation eases marginally to 6.25% for farm, rural workers in Sept

Point-to-point rate of inflation based on CPI-AL and CPI-RL decreased to 6.25 per cent and 6.10 per cent in September from 6.32 per cent and 6.28 per cent, respectively in August, a labour ministry st

Decoded: How govt's SVAMITVA scheme aims to help rural property holders

Launched by Prime Minister Modi on Sunday, it is aimed at digitising all rural properties by 2024

SVAMITVA scheme to be milestone in direction of 'gramin swaraj': Amit Shah

The prime minister on Sunday launched the physical distribution of the property cards under the Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA) scheme

PM launches physical distribution of property cards under SWAMITVA scheme

The move will pave the way for villagers to use property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits

Middle, rural India driving 'strategic priorities' of FMCG firms: Nielsen

Nielsen defines middle India as urban but towns with population of 1-10 lakh, excluding rural centres and metros.

Despite challenging economic environment, Bharat to drive Maruti's sales

Rural buying 41% of the total during Apr-Aug

Rural India gets a mini-public works boost

A good kharif sowing season coupled with adequate monsoon rains has raised hopes that the rural economy would prop up consumer spending and incomes

Fintech RapiPay plans to deploy 500,000 micro ATMs in next two years

Capital India Finance's fintech subsidiary RapiPay on Tuesday said it aims to deploy 5 lakh micro ATMs over the next two years in the country. RapiPay, which uses a franchised retail network to provide banking business correspondents (BCs) services, has recently launched micro ATMs (mATMs) across the country. The company said it believes that for ATM cash withdrawals, Micro ATMs are a game-changer for Indian consumers, especially the marginalised population located in tier I, II towns and rural India. "We have been able to install over 25,000 devices within a month of its launch. RapiPay Micro ATMs are revolutionary in comparison to the conventional ATMs and offers utmost ease to the consumers enabling them to withdraw cash and do other similar banking activities at any RapiPay Saathi store without having to travel kilometres in search of an ATM," RapiPay MD & CEO Yogendra Kashyap said. Availability of Micro ATMs, AePS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment System) and other services such as ...