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Making the Village Work: Integrated Development in Practice
For years, rural India has seen significant development through various schemes aimed at improving infrastructure and providing funding. The scale is undeniable—and so are the results. Since 2019, the Jal Jeevan Mission has provided tap water connections to more than 140 million rural households, boosting national rural coverage from about …
Water Governance: Recalibrating Institutions for Water Security
Water is central to India’s development agenda – it supports agriculture, sustains urban areas, drives industry, and underpins public health and wellbeing. While national and state policies are well laid out, the institutional framework often remains complex and fragmented, leading to challenges at the ground level. This editorial explores the …
The Non-Farm Imperative: Rural Women Entrepreneurs and the 2030 Jobs Mission
India is witnessing a gradual yet critical shift in its rural employment landscape. For generations, agriculture has shaped not just livelihoods, but the very identity of rural communities. Today, that identity is expanding. Across villages, people are looking beyond farming, aspiring for enterprises and occupations that can provide stability, dignity, …
Airwaves of Change: Radio Bundelkhand’s Gender-Inclusive Revolution
With its rugged landscape and arid climate, Bundelkhand is a canvas painted by contrasts. This plateau, marked by breathtaking landscapes, has also been scarred by a pattern of harsh climate—frequent droughts, shrinking water tables, and cracked, thirsty fields. For generations, it has been shaped by erratic monsoons and depleting natural …
Rebuilding Bundelkhand
Few places on Earth exemplify better than the region of Bundelkhand in Central India the adage of ‘resource curse’. Despite its enormous endowment of resource wealth – its rich deposits of minerals (including the only operating diamond mine in India) and dense forests, diverse fauna and flora; its unique history …