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‘Regional rural banks are critical to financial inclusion’

by admin|15 February 202315 February 2023|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 15, 2023 Did you know that regional rural banks, or RRBs, have 28.3 crore depositors and 2.6 crore borrowers? They were created to provide rural areas with basic banking services, and they also disburse pensions and NREGA...

NREGA budget cut couldn’t have come at a worse time

by admin|11 February 202311 February 2023|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 11, 2023 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. This government has never been too keen about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, better known as NREGA, despite the...

Audio podcast: For ‘aatmanirbharta’, a forest under siege

by admin|20 August 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Podcast transcript Hello and welcome. What lies above the ground in a forest are trees, wildlife and an ecology vital to indigenous communities and their age-old culture. While they have seamlessly become part of this ecosystem, what lies below is...

We can’t have an Atmanirbhar Rashtra without self-reliant villages

by admin|18 May 202018 May 2020|All Indians Matter

This concludes the three-part series on the country Mahatma Gandhi dreamt of Tushar Gandhi May 19, 2020 COVID-19 has changed the way we live, the lifestyle we have got used to. The sham of our economic resurgence is evident. But...

The India of Bapu’s dreams: rural enterprise, a Gandhian innovation

by admin|09 March 202010 March 2020|All Indians Matter

This is the second of a three-part series on the country Mahatma Gandhi dreamt of Tushar Gandhi March 9, 2020 What is rural enterprise? Ask this question and nine out of 10 answers will be “agriculture” or “horticulture” or “animal...