BENGALURU, India — Tending crops by day and then logging on for a night shift of data labeling, 27-year-old Chandmani ...

NEW DELHI – In the small village of Alwar, Rajasthan, eighteen-year-old Afseena sat on the mud floor of her home, flipping through the worn pages of her only textbook. She had read the same lessons ...

Tending crops by day and then logging on for a night shift of data labeling, 27-year-old Chandmani Kerketta is part of a rising rural Indian workforce helping power an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

According to the NSSO data, only 24% of rural Indian households have access to the Internet, compared to a 66% penetration in cities The growing rural teledensity, which currently stands at 59%, ...

Across India’s villages, a quiet transformation is underway. It is not driven by slogans or short-term schemes, but by a steady shift in how we look at agriculture, energy, and rural livelihoods.

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