Tag: Rural

Policy UpdateGargi BishtBackgroundUttarakhand’s migration crisis presents one of India’s most acute demographic challenges. Between 2008 and 2018, approximately 118,981 persons migrated permanently from rural...

Policy UpdateAnamika P KBackgroundThe Self Help Entrepreneur- Livelihoods and Enterprise Application for Prosperity and Sustainability (SHE -LEAPS) was launched on 29th June 2026 at...

Policy UpdateAyan BardoiBackgroundThe dairy industry is the mainstay of the Indian rural economy, providing employment to more than 80 million farmers of whom the...

Policy UpdateRitobrata PurkayasthaIndia’s financial inclusion landscape is undergoing a structural paradigm shift, transitioning from expanding basic brick-and-mortar banking access to deploying an intelligent, real-time...

Siddharth SinghClimate change is no longer just an environmental issue, it is rapidly becoming one of India’s greatest public health challenges. While conversations often...

Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe gold loan segment has historically been one of India’s fastest-growing forms of secured retail credit, valued for its speed of disbursal,...

Policy UpdateAkshat JangidBackgroundOn 21 December 2025, the President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu gave assent to the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and...

Policy UpdateTanvi NerurkarIntroduction: From Welfare to Women-Led DevelopmentIndia’s rural development policy has gone through three main phases. The first, called “women’s welfare,” saw women...

Policy UpdateTanvi NerurkarIntroductionIn the last thirty years, rural women’s development in India has gone through several stages. It began with welfare programs focused on...

Mansi TirthaniBackgroundIn India property ownership is one of the most significant pillars of socio-economic empowerment but for an individual Indian woman it is a...