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ICICI Group today dedicated 100 ‘ICICI Digital Villages’ to the nation at an event in New Delhi marking the bank’s efforts to partner the nation’s progress by empowering rural India. Shri Arun Jaitley, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance, Defence & Corporate Affairs inaugurated the event, ‘ICICI Rural

A record sale of village goods and khadi worth 50,000 crore was seen last year. This is good news showing growth in rural economy. Khadi sales has seen a manifold rise as the government made a push for its growth. Added to this was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to the citizens to buy Khadi

KADWANCHI’S 400-ODD farmers received 412 mm of rain in 2015-16, about 60 per cent of their average annual rainfall, but the cultivators weren’t unduly perturbed. For Kadwanchi village, located in arid Marathwada’s Jalna district, has witnessed a rare triumph. Even as neighbouring villages in drought

Usually when one hears of some news from Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh, it is for all the wrong reasons - primarily of the naxal disturbance. However, in the Dantewada district Katekalyan has quietly been building another identity — as the nursery of organic farming mushrooming across the district

Many have heard of the Gulabi gang of Bundelkhand which was started sometime in 2010 to fight against domestic abuse and violence against women. And the members of Gulabi gang were all women between the age of 18 and 60. Encouraged by this movement a few ex-students of Banaras Hindu University and

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign of "Swachh Bharat" and construction of toilets has been gaining momentum. While the government is making its efforts, voluntary organisations, business associations, individuals, etc. are all being seen to add in to this campaign. Today's news item by Chetna

Union Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Vijay Goel today inaugurated the first edition of the Akhil Bhartiya Kabaddi Championship at the Motilal Nehru School of Sports in Rai, Sonipat (Haryana). The competition aims at popularising the sport among youngsters and to promote it

All the two and a half lakh gram panchayats will be getting internet services by 2018 end. Under the first phase of BharatNet project around one lakh panchayats are to be connected by underground optical fibre cable by March. The internet connectivity will help the government's mission of 'less cash

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan' (PMGDISHA) to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate. The outlay for this project is Rs.2,351.38 crore to usher in digital literacy in rural India by March

Ekal & CII India@75 recently organized “Mera Gaon, Swachh Gao” - a cleanliness drive in various parts of the country. In this drive undertaken in 47 blocks more than 1,93,000 beneficiaries were registered in 1401 villages. The aim of the drive was spreading awareness about the cleanliness habits and

Ekal Vidyalaya movement has been working in remote villages for the last 28 years. Started in Jharkhand (then it was part of Bihar) in 1988-89, today has its presence in some 54,000 villages. Today Ekal with its five-tire education programme to uplift the people residing in remote villages has been

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development will achieve the annual targeted length of 48,812 kilometers of rural roads by 31 st March, 2017, as the construction work picks up from January to May every year. As on 27.01.2017, a total of 32,963kms