India proposes legislation to expand its rural employment scheme, increasing guaranteed workdays from 100 to 125 per ...

MNREGA is India’s landmark rural job guarantee scheme that promises up to 100 days of paid work each year. From its origins ...

The Bihar government has requested the central government to release over Rs 7,748.49 crore pending under rural development ...

The government is set to repeal the MGNREGA, enacted in 2005, and introduce the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and ...

He said geospatial infrastructure was emerging as a pillar of India's economic resilience and technology sovereignty. Sastri cited the success of Operation Dronagiri, an initiative that deployed ...

The PLFS (periodic Labour Survey) data on employment from 2017–18 to 2022–23 paints an optimistic picture of women’s participation. There has been an increase in WPR for women aged 15 years or more ...

According to the NSSO data, only 24% of rural Indian households have access to the Internet, compared to a 66% penetration in cities The growing rural teledensity, which currently stands at 59%, ...

India’s JEEViKA program ( i.e., livelihoods), financed by the World Bank, works exclusively with women from poor rural families and has transformed livelihoods in the state of Bihar. Between 2008 to ...

To cater to talented graduates from tier 2-and-3 cities programmes in English plus regional languages such as Hindi, Tamil, ...

ADB Country Director for India Mio Oka said women entrepreneurs continue to face structural barriers that limit their ability ...

In 2006, Bihar, one of India’s poorest and most populous states, was contending with poor infrastructure and service delivery, and a complex political and social context. Limited inclusion of women in ...