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Government and Policy

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi government focuses on rural women’s empowerment through Rural Livelihood Mission, over 1.06 crore women join Self-Help Groups

OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2026

The Yogi government is empowering over 1.06 crore rural women in Uttar Pradesh through the UPSRLM initiative.

Government and Policy

Revised wage rates under VB-G RAM G notified; No notified daily wage below ₹300, national average wage increased by over 10%

OpIndia Staff - 2 July, 2026

The newly enforced VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, elevates India's average rural daily wage by over 10% to ₹327.4 and extends legally guaranteed employment from 100 to 125 days, backed by a ₹95,692 crore central fund allocation.

News Reports

India’s poorest households are consuming gutkha, other tobacco products at an alarming rate, spending more and more on it: Study reveals

Rukma Rathore - 21 January, 2026

The country is expanding its subsidised healthcare system while gutkha is being consumed at an alarming rate.

News Reports

Digital India: Citizens can now download valid land records from their home in 19 States

OpIndia Staff - 4 January, 2026

India's land system is now largely digital: 19 states allow downloading legally valid RoR records online. Banks in 406 districts verify mortgages instantly. 97% rural records digitised, ULPIN issued for 36 crore plots, plus urban NAKSHA mapping for transparent deals.

News Reports

Modi govt extends Ujjwala cooking gas cylinder subsidies for 2024-25, LPG prices reduced by Rs 100 on Women’s Day

OpIndia Staff - 8 March, 2024

As of March 1, 2024, there are more than 10.27 crore PMUY beneficiaries. The total expenditure will be Rs 12,000 crore for the financial year 2024-25.

Opinions

How The Hindu tortured data to claim ‘consumer sentiment weaker in Rural areas’: Here is an analysis of 5 graphs they misrepresented

S. Sudhir Kumar - 29 July, 2022

At first glance of one such “Data Point” published on July 27th, 2022, it looked like there is a gloomy scenario in the country today.

News Reports

Hospitals in rural and tribal areas to be handed over to Red Cross: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2020

Citizens said that handing over hospitals to foreign groups like Red Cross could be suicidal as India is plagued with Naxals & Maoists

News Reports

Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana: How have the villages adopted by Modi, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi fared

OpIndia Staff - 25 April, 2019

While MPs in PM Modi's ministry have gone on to adopt as many as three and four villages, the villages adopted by Sonia and Rahul continue to wait for basic facilities

News Reports