The Commission has trained 50 women to give digital training, and each is paid Rs 3,000 per session. Tejaswini, Bhim, Aaple Sarkar, Umang, NaMo, and Digilocker apart from Google Assistant are the six apps that the women are taught.

The Jachcha-Baccha Survey (JABS) shows that less than half of pregnant women in rural India have access to proper nutrition or quality healthcare.

Rural jobs have vanished and  rural female participation rate in the labor force fell from 49.4 percent in 2004-05 to 24.6 percent in 2017-18 according to the data by Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-2018. This report is for the age group 15-59. But when we talk on an overall scale, including both males and […]

The world wide web is now making a beeline for rural India. Google Inc, in association with Tata Trusts, has launched an initiative, ‘Internet Saathi’, in order to teach women and larger communities in the rural parts of Rajasthan, West Bengal, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh to learn and explore various uses and […]