Telangana’s solar village plan brings decentralised power closer to rural homes and farms. Here’s how local electricity ...

Since 2001, India has been constructing all-weather roads and upgrading old ones in rural areas across the country The World Bank has invested $2.1 billion in the country’s flagship Pradhan Mantri ...

The paper draws on one of the largest datasets on land ownership in India, covering around 650 million people across 270,000 ...

Chanda Bhabhar, a Panchayat Badlav Didi from Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district, mobilised 500 women to improve healthcare, ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how ...

The villages of India serve as the cultural and heritage center, where age-old traditions, ideals, and customs stay very much alive. Among all of the villages in the country, however, one shines a ...

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%, ...

When Asha Gond first started skateboarding, neighbors in her village of Janwar in central India were aghast. They urged the teenager's parents to keep her busy with housework or get her married. When ...