Rural sanitation programme in India • 10% of the Rural Sanitation Programme in India is now being spent on IEC projects. • This puts $US 1.9m each year into increasing awareness and understanding of water and sanitation issues at every level from state decision makers to rural villagers. • The action was taken after a survey showed huge gaps in what the sector thought and ordinary people did. • Fundamental changes in the practice by water engineers and planners are being brought about by this
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Brands for Rural India” By Himanshu Shekhawat Lecturer‚ Department of Management Studies‚ Poornima Group of Colleges‚ ISI-2‚ Sitapura Institutional Area‚ Jaipur E mail: Himanshu.shekhawat@gmail.com Abstract India is a very large country with 3‚700 towns and 6‚ 00‚000 villages. A rural market is a village with a population of less than 5000. But since the larger villages and the smaller towns are witnessing an explosion in growth‚ they are collectively known as rural markets
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Objectification of women in India "You can tell the condition of a Nation by looking at the status of its Women." Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Leader of India’s Independence movement‚ and India’s first Prime Minister. According to a global poll conducted by Thomson Reuters‚ India is the "fourth most dangerous country" in the world for women and the worst country for women among the G20 countries. Today’s India offers a lot of opportunities to women‚ with women having a voice in everyday life‚ the business
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Research and Literature Review Assignment 8th Semester Department of Family Medicine Scoring the Third Goal A commentary on Nepal’s efforts to promote gender equality and empower women Posan Samser Limbu R. N. 593 MBBS‚ 2005 BPKIHS The once mystical women have fallen from being worshipped as goddesses and possessors of the mystery of child birth1 to mere child bearers. If females are the oppressed among humans‚ perhaps they can take heart from the fact that failing to escape after mating‚ the
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DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Introduction “When women move forward‚ the family moves‚ the village moves and the nation moves. Those‚ who will understand‚ will lay foundation of a great nation.” Indeed‚ History suggest this as well that western societies which promoted women’s rights‚ freedom‚ self-reliance and fraternity among its citizens have progressed ahead of their time leaving behind the rest of the world drowned in prejudices. In India‚ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was one of the men
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Changing Nature of Gender Relations in India - A Journey from Intra- Household Gender Dynamics to Social Participation through Government Interventions : An Introspective Approach Towards Women Empowerment By Niloy Biswas1 Introduction: Household - The root source for gender relations One of the most important institutions in the lives of people is the household. Poverty interventions directly or indirectly affect and are affected by the household and gender relations‚ and hence there
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they purchases and the services they avail. In a country like India where all the consumer protection laws are in place‚ the consumers are not really aware of them and the mechanism in place to redress their grievances. Those who know the laws know that the process is very slow and cumbersome. There are a number of steps taken to protect the rural consumer but without much impact due to the prevailing socio - economic conditions of the rural consumers. They generally base their purchasing decisions on
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FUTURE OF RURAL INSURANCE IN INDIA India is fast emerging on the world map as a strong economy and a global power. The country is going through a phase of rapid development and growth. All the vital industries and sectors of the country are registering growth and thus‚ luring foreign investors. And insurance sector is one of them. The rural market in India‚ constituting 742 million people‚ is by far the largest potential market in the world. The annual rural household income of Rs 56‚630 (as per
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EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH DAIRY COOPERATIVES (A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO VISAKHA DAIRY) Dr. M. SaradaDevi M. Vijetha Rani ABSTRACT: Women’s empowerment is one of the challenging tasks in the present scenario. Majority of women in India both in rural and urban are employed in order to meet the financial demands for survival. Moreover we find women are reported as marginal workers than men in many areas of work. In this phenomenon the cooperatives are playing a vital role in providing the
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE æ Factors affecting orientation and satisfaction of women entrepreneurs in rural India Jeevan Jyoti‚ Assistant Professor*‚ Jyoti Sharma‚ PhD Research Scholar and Anita Kumari‚ Research Scholar Department of Commerce‚ University of Jammu‚ Jammu‚ Jammu and Kashmir‚ India In the present era‚ the women-owned businesses in the form of women entrepreneurs are one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial populations in the India. The objective of the paper is to study the
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