Rural India
Khadi- New Fashion Statement
Sabyasachi Mukherjee is a young, hip, Bengali designer is insisting that khadi can be a great fashion statement. Khadi, which is simple homespun weave championed by Gandhi in the 1930s to boost the rural economy and give India a sense of nationalist pride during the fight for independence, is refined, sophisticated, eco-friendly and comfortable, and has too long been regarded as the poor man’s fabric.
Rural BPO
India’s BPO industry is already worth $12bn but rural BPOs are part of a fresh push by Indian entrepreneurs to keep the industry competitive according to BBC article titled “Business ventures thrive in rural India “.
Educating Rural Indian Youths
Yahoo India news article titled “Giving young India a foothold into the future”. The leading companies in India have joined hands with the central government to improve the career prospects of bright young people from rural India.
Girl’s School Reshapes Rural India
Krishna Chaudhry, 16 year old girl is inspiring her classmates to seek independence through education in rural Uttar Pradesh. She has been an inspiration for her classmates by challenging them to refuel This is reported in Voice of America article titled “Girl’s School in Uttar Pradesh Reshapes Rural India”.
Budget 2009-10 Youth and Rural Friendly
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the government would make it a priority to reach 9% gross domestic product growth in the medium term and would seek to spend 9% of GDP on infrastructure development by 2014. Budget release was heavy on spending for farmers and the poor, a core constituency of the Congress party-led ruling coalition, funded by a surge in borrowing and an increase in the fiscal deficit to 6.8 percent of GDP.
