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Lakhpati Didi: Reimagining Rural Development Through Women-Led Entrepreneurship

India’s rural development policy has gone through three main phases. The first, called “women's welfare,” saw women mostly as recipients of nutrition, health, and poverty relief. The second, “women empowerment,” developed alongside the Self-Help Group (SHG) movement in the 1990s and 2000s, focusing on savings, access to credit, and community involvement. The third and current phase, known as “women-led development,” now sees rural women as economic actors who can drive local development (Ministry of Rural Development [MoRD], 2023).

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SHE-Marts & the Next Frontier Of Women-Led Development In India Building Market Ecosystems for Rural Women Entrepreneurs

In the last thirty years, rural women’s development in India has gone through several stages. It began with welfare programs focused on nutrition, maternal health, and poverty relief. The 1990s saw the rise of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) that promoted empowerment. Later, the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana–National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) institutionalised women-led development. Most recently, the Lakhpati Didi initiative aims to help SHG members earn a steady annual household income of over one lakh rupees.

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Creditor-Led Resolution: How the IBC Amendment Bill (2025) Speeds Up Insolvency

Policy UpdateSruti Halder Background The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 established a time-bound framework for resolving corporate insolvency through the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), and licensed Insolvency Professionals. The Insolvency…

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France’s Feminist Foreign Policy and Its Role in Development Cooperation

France’s Feminist Foreign Policy is an example of how a state can connect diplomacy, development and gender equality. This is a diplomatic approach that puts women’s and girls’ rights at the centre of action. In development cooperation it moves gender from secondary concern to a core objective by advancing women’s rights and wider social development. limited to strategy; it is actively implemented through strong advocacy in international forums such as the UN Commission on the Status of Women and European institutions.

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Chenab River Hydropower Projects in Kishtwar: Development, Energy Security and Local Challenges.

Kishtwar district has emerged as a strategic centre for hydropower development in Jammu and Kashmir because of the hydropower potential of the Chenab River and its major tributary, the Marusudar River. Hydropower development in the district began with the commissioning of the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Project in 2007.For several decades, further expansion remained subject to the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), 1960. The treaty allocated the waters of the Chenab River to Pakistan. However, it permitted India to undertake "non-consumptive" uses, primarily through run-of-the-river hydropower generation.

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India – Nepal Border Relations 2026: Cooperation, Connectivity and Strategic Challenges

The India-Nepal border has been regarded as one of the most distinctive international boundaries in the world. The boundary is approximately 1,751 kilometers, extending across Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim and Bihar and is governed by the provisions from the 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, allowing citizens of both the countries to cross boundaries without the need of passports and visas.

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