Rural India

This November, about 200 musicians from around the country will get together to spread love, music and communal harmony in Bikaner. And the Superintendent of Police will be there to support them. This is how!

Dr. Avinash Pol, a dental surgeon from Maharashtra, guided the residents of more than 70 villages in the state to help revive water bodies and learn about beneficial government schemes. He also helped them with sanitation work.

Weddings can often drive families in rural India to financial ruin. This innovative initiative is reusing old wedding dresses to curb wedding expenses

In May 2015, Seema Saadikha started an NGO named Namma Mitra Foundation, which focusses on community development and rural empowerment in villages in Karnataka.

Disturbed by the conditions in her ancestral village, this accomplished woman gave up on a corporate career to start a school for children.

Syed Ghani Khan has dedicated his life to discovering and growing indigenous varieties of paddy. He has also managed to dissuade many rural youngsters from migrating to the cities and encouraged them to take up agriculture as an honourable profession.

A nonprofit organisation is working with forest departments in 284 villages in Karnataka, helping villagers gain access to government compensations easily after property or crop damage caused by wild animals.

Prolonged dry spells and unseasonal rainfall result in drought-like situations or water-logging in many fields across India. This leads to the destruction of crops. Here’s how an Ahmedabad-based social enterprise is helping farmers with a unique water harvesting technology.

Combining these ecologically safe traditional systems with modern rainwater-saving techniques could be the answer to India's perennial water woes.

SHRI builds free-to-use public toilets in Bihar. These toilets then use the methane gas produced to purify drinking water