rural india

In the present day context of a changing economic scenario, increasing population pressure on resources and hence, the livelihood of poor people, has emerged as an important challenge especially in the remote rural areas. For a government…

Last week was quite slow when it came to posting of articles, thanks to my visit to Japan. We did have few good articles published – Here is a quick wrap-up. This decade has witnessed a sea-change in Television programming. There has…

Financial Inclusion is defined as delivering banking facilities/financial services to all the people in a transparent and equitable manner at affordable cost. The ‘Committee on Financial Inclusion in India’ defined it as “the process…

Sarpanches and gram-sewaks are creating havoc on the streets, rioting and striking, to protest against the half-yearly social audits that evaluate work done by villagers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme…

India’s over 600,000 villages and a rural population of over 700 million present a very unique and challenge opportunity for various organizations. The fact that this population has completely different needs, wants and desires compared to…

Tata Teleservices has not become the 4th largest Telecom Operator in India Tata Teleservices has crossed the 75 million subscriber mark to become the fourth largest telecom operator in the country leaving behind state operated BSNL. The…

Telecom sector in India evolved in India after the regulations made competition enter this industry. The National Telecom Policy (NTP) Act 99’ which deregulated the Group of Telecom (GoT) , raising Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit to…

Finally, it is here – A Solar powered Mobile phone – It is surprising that Mobile sector has seen a lot of innovation, but not much has happened when it came to powering / charging mobile through this abundantly available source of Energy.…

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is an industry that people relate with the operation of outsourcing business mostly based in Tier I and II cities of the country. However, this thought has been rendered as a mythical view in the recent…

mobile handset makers are leaving no stones unturned to extract maximum product sales. In order to target a wide base of lower to middle class population, the handset manufacturers are rolling out low-cost products to satisfy the basic need…