All major schemes like MGNREGA, rural housing, Jal Jeevan Mission and rural roads are suffering in villages in Belagavi district,” according to Vishveshwarayya Hiremath, coordinator of the Grameena Koolikarara Sangha. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Some activists and political leaders want the new State government to begin the process of conducting rural local body elections … Read more
According to a release by World Bank, the assistance will support Karnataka’s ambition to provide functioning tap water connections to every rural household in the state. | Photo Credit: SRIRAM MA The World Bank has approved a 363 million dollar (USD) loan to Karnataka to provide a clean and safe drinking water to two million … Read more
Priyadarshi, Kavya Kalyanram and Sudhakar Reddy in the Telugu movie ‘Balagam’ In Balagam, debut director Venu Yeldandi’s Telugu movie set in rural Telangana, a lady wails while recalling how the elderly man who has breathed his last had always relished the tea she served and asked for two more spoons of sugar and had also … Read more
A cottage at Maachli in Sindhudurg. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Mattur is a village in Karnataka where residents speak only in Sanskrit. Maachli in Maharashtra is an agrarian homestay surrounded by coconut, betel, and banana plantations. The Bishnoi village in Rajasthan has frequent visits from the endangered Great Indian Bustard. These are destinations … Read more
By Dr Amit Gupta Diabetes does not discriminate. It can occur to anyone, anywhere. Be it a person residing in metropolitan cities or a person living in rural areas. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing incessantly, raising an alarming concern, particularly in remote rural areas. It is because diabetes awareness lags in rural India due … Read more
Women work at a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme project site at Umachagi village in Hubballi taluk, Karnataka. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The proportion of women workers participating in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has touched a ten-year high in the ongoing financial year. According to the … Read more
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO The State government will provide school buses to rural schoolchildren under the public-private partnership mode, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said in Shiggaon in Haveri district on Sunday. “We will soon start the project. That will help rural children reach school on time and return home safely. … Read more
Mumbai: MediSage, digital engagement platform for doctors, has announced that it has been able to engage with over 2.2 lakh rural doctors online. It has leveraged this opportunity to become the go-to digital channel allowing doctors to access credible medical information from across 15 plus specialties in one single app. The portal enables doctors to … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has developed an Information Technology tool to monitor and improve the health of rural Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The IT Tool, developed using open-source software, was deployed to gather detailed household-level annual health-related information. This IT Tool was also utilized … Read more
New Delhi: The neurological department of AIIMS Delhi has launched a smartphone app named “SMART-India” to provide low-cost telestroke services of neurologists and physiotherapists to physicians in district hospitals. This app connects secondary and peripheral healthcare centres with tertiary care facilities and guides them to provide immediate relief. Using this app, a local resident doctor … Read more