Rural India

News and Trends

COTPA Amendment To Hit Livelihood Of Women Working In Beedi Industry: Study

A Study on Lack of Alternative Employment for Women Beedi Rollers points how the existing anti-tobacco legislations have already impacted the livelihood of people working in the industry

Starting a Business

This Start-Up Is Making Ecommerce Easy For Rural India

Boonbox, India's first assisted e-commerce platform for rural areas takes orders from customers in 16 states and has the ability to deliver products in 300,000 villages, which is 47 per cent of villages in India

Marketing

Unlocking the Market Potential of Rural India

Here's how companies can identify opportunities and mobilize resources quickly to carve out a sustainable position for themselves in their respective industries

Finance

#Budget2019: Government Aims For Rural Industrialization

In the next 5 years, the government is aiming to build one lakh digital villages

Technology

How Adoption of Digital Technologies and Payments Methods are Boosting Delivery of Credit in the Rural Areas

MFIs in the country that are truly leveraging fintech and digitization, the majority of the sector still needs to seriously reconsider its existing business models and make way for technology on a larger scale