Rural Women

Maharashtra polls: Ladki Bahin throws a lifeline but inflation haunts women

How crucial is the Ladki Bahin Yojana for women in the state as rising costs and populist promises shape election decisions?

UP's rural women drive Rs 27,000 crore financial inclusion transactions

Uttar Pradesh leads the nation in the number of BC Sakhis, followed by Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with nearly 19,000 and 10,000 correspondents, respectively

Union Budget 2024: Push for Lakhpati Didi 2.0 to boost women empowerment

Budget 2024: The Union Budget for the financial year 2024-25 is scheduled to be presented in the Lok Sabha on July 23

Insurance helped 46,000 women avoid deadly work during heat waves in India

With climate change raising temperatures during heat waves, millions of Indians face a difficult choice: work in dangerous conditions or go hungry

Agri, self-employment drive women participation in rural workforce: FinMin

The report pointed out that the female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) has been rising for at least six years now, to 37 per cent in 2022-23 from 23.3 per cent in 2017-18

Women accorded top priority under PM Mudra Yojana scheme: FM Sitharaman

Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said women entrepreneurs are accorded first priority under the Centre's flagship Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana scheme which offers financial assistance to beneficiaries. Distributing sanction letters to beneficiaries under the PM SVANidhi Se Samriddhi programme which offers loans to street vendors, here, she said officials of the municipalities should identify the uncovered street vendors and help them avail benefits of this scheme. SVANidhi Se Samriddhi is an additional component of the PMSVANidhi scheme to facilitate access to eight Central government schemes to eligible PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their family members for their holistic development and socio-economic upliftment. Recalling the launch of Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile Trinity, Sitharaman said that through JAM Trinity, an AADHAR card was provided to a beneficiary, after which he or she can open a bank account and, directly, the financial aid from the

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Uttar Pradesh govt to groom 3 million rural women as micro agri-preneurs

UP women SHGs comprising 60,000 members were engaged in growing improved varieties of sugarcane seeds after the first wave of pandemic

CM Gehlot ups honorarium for women in rural livelihood projects by 15%

Rajasthan Assembly elections 2023: Ahead of the elections, CM Ashok Gehlot provides interest-free loans to women engaged in rural livelihood projects

Haryana govt gives nod to engaging SHGs for rural water supply scheme

The Haryana Cabinet Tuesday gave a nod for introducing a new scheme for engaging Women Self-help Groups as service providers in the rural water supply scheme under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). While promoting water conservation, the scheme also aims to give SHG members an opportunity to earn additional income as well as gram panchayats to increase revenue from the residents, said an official release here. The Cabinet, which met here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, approved a proposal regarding engaging SHGs for collection of water charges and other related services in rural areas. Under this scheme, the billing for water charges is proposed to be carried out by village water and sanitation committees which will engage SHG women members for sending online bills. The distribution and collection of water charges shall be carried out by SHG members as per guidelines of the state rural livelihood mission (SRLM) from time to time. The scheme has been prepa

Women, villages and the less affluent drive internet growth in rural India

The message from Nielsen's latest India Internet Report is that media planners need to get out of the reach game and get more creative to leverage the new type of audiences coming online

Reliance Jio, GSMA launch initiative to train rural women in digital skills

Reliance Jio and global mobile network operators' organisation GSMA on Tuesday announced the roll-out of their digital skills programme to train rural women in India.

Fish farming turns lucrative for Chhattisgarh women, supports rural economy

'We wanted to do some work to make ourselves financially strong, but due to lack of guidance, things could not materialise

Rajasthan self-help groups help low-income women with farming, dairy

Women are also being involved in honey production, making solar energy equipment, online marketing, and training to make digital videos

Women at receiving end as Covid-induced mental health crisis looms large

In this pandemic, the fatality rate among women may be lesser, yet, they, as frontline workers and at home, became the victims of 'shadow pandemic'

How innovative, sustainable tech can empower rural women in India

A team of social scientists have penned a paper on how rural women can generate income for their families with the help of innovative and sustainable technologies

Airbnb, SEWA extend partnership for rural women hosts in Ladakh

Airbnb will train SEWA members on home sharing, hospitality, quality standards and responsible hosting practices under the 'Hum Sab Ek' (We are One) initiative

Rural women make up for rising unemployment in urban men in 2019-20: PLFS

Job situation improved in 12 months to June 2020, but deteriorated sharply in the latter half of the reference period due to lockdown

Google partners with Sheroes to support 500 rural women entrepreneurs

Last year, the tech major had started a small pilot for an accelerator programme for 10 women entrepreneurs in rural India across its Internet Saathi network

RBI notification excluding NBFCs from gold loan rule will hurt poor women

Central bank's decision to the raise the loan-to-value ratio is welcome relief for formal banking, but it does not address the issues faced by the most badly affected segments of our economy.