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JICA Signs First Co-Financing Deal with India Exim Bank to Boost Rural MSMEs

The agency remains committed to supporting inclusive and sustainable development in India through targeted investments and innovative financing solutions.

By Entrepreneur Staff

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Rural Digital Payments and E-Commerce Landscape Undergoing Profound Transformation: Jinesh Shah

By Prince Kariappa

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82% of Rural Women Entrepreneurs Still Rely on Traditional Offline Sales: Report

By Entrepreneur Staff

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FMCG: Why Rural Pockets Are Experiencing Sluggish Growth

By Shrabona Ghosh

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Union Budget 2023: Rural Jobs Scheme Witness Cut In Allocations

The allocation for the rural job scheme for the next financial year is reportedly 17.80% lesser than the budgetary estimates of INR 73,000 crore for 2022-23

By Teena Jose

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Jai Kisan Raises $50 Million In Series B Funding

The fund raised will be used to expand the product suite, enhance the customer journey, accelerate the phenomenal growth of existing products, strengthen talent and boost data science and engineering capabilities

By Teena Jose

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Hesa Raises $2.3 Million In Pre-Series A Funding

The fund raised will be used for the expansion to newer geographies, strengthening the technology and to increase the offerings

By Teena Jose

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Dabur: Building Bharat First Brands

Dabur's Mohit Malhotra says the company has been ahead of the curve to keep urban as well as rural demand intact

By Shrabona Ghosh

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Creating Sustainable Livelihoods for Rural Artisans

The idea behind Lal10 is to use the vast untapped potential across rural communities and organize it with technology and innovative business models while also empowering rural artisans to become micro-entrepreneurs

By Shipra Singh

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Consumer Giants Are Cutting Down Workforce & Commodity Prices, Is Economic Slowdown the Reason?

After Parle's unemployment scare, HUL slashes prices of select product portfolios

By Aastha Singal

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4 Changes That MSME’s ‘Khadi’ Vision Can Bring

MSME minister Nitin Gadkari encouraged small entrepreneurs to uplift Khadi manufacturing in India

By Vinayak Sharma

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Successful Implementation of E-Pharmacy in Rural India

E-Pharmacy improves purchaser's comfort and access, this will above all advantage endless old-age patients living in family units, and patients who are not in a condition to go out to discover a drug store

By Amit Sharma

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Rediscovering Better Educated India by Uplifting Rural Education

When we set to think about the growth of the nation, we take various factors into consideration, education is one of them.

By Ritesh Rawal

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Moving from Metros to Villages: Why Small E-Commerce Players are Doing Better in the Rural Sector

The giants of E-Commerce are yet to capitalize on this market, thus clearing the grounds for small to mid-level companies

By Harsh Chauhan

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Rural E-Commerce – The Emerging Giant

The rural population contributes $359 billion amounting to about 57per cent of the entirety of the retail market

By Jitender Singh

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Challenges Fintech Companies Face While Expanding to Rural India

Even today, the effect of digitization is more seen in urban India. However, the true essence of change from technology comes when it makes a difference even in the remote parts of the country

By Sanchita Dash

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#4 Apps That are Changing the Face of Indian Agriculture

There is a need to enhance the level of farm mechanization in the country.

By Nidhi Singh

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This Startup is Taking Digital Services to Every Corner of Rural India

The company is trying to create a network of Digital Runners across villages, who are available on demand to deliver digital services

By Nidhi Singh

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Tribute to A Tech Innovator who Revolutionized Communication in Rural Areas

Vanu Bose passionately followed the development of wireless technology to achieve his aim of connecting the far off rural parts of the world

By Nidhi Singh

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#5 Facts that Represent President-elect Ram Nath Kovind’s Leadership Qualities

As a serving member of the Parliament, Kovind worked on various projects to transform rural areas

By Sanchita Dash

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Innovation and Collaboration – The New Reality For Healthcare Industry

"Innovation, technology and collaboration are symbiotic and cannot exist without each other's support."

By Baishali Mukherjee

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Better Prices For Farmers

On a vacation when Aditya was home, his father Sanjay Agarwalla narrated this story and its compounding disadvantage to farmers in India.

By Sugandh Singh

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This Agri-tech Entrepreneur Says Indian Farmer is Not Averse to Technology

'Start-ups should remember that their customers are traditional users of technology and not old users'

By Nidhi Singh

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We’ll Target Women, MSME Sector After Starting Banking Operations: Microfin Company

The journey of the Fincare began with an equity investment by IVFA in 2010 with an acquisition of a stake in two NBFC-MFIs

By Pooja Domadia

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Is Indian Government Doing Enough to Support MSMEs?

By supporting MSMEs, one can ensure access to better opportunities and standards of livings for the rural population.

By Mohit Sahney

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How Lending Mechanisms in Rural & Semi Urban Markets Function

Customers keep shifting in this ecosystem from money lender to BANKS via NBFC's & new set of customers reach out to local money lenders, thereby adding to the market size.

By Mohit Sahney

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“Financial Literacy in Rural India Needs to Be Continuous and Adaptive”

Bangalore-based not-for-profit organization Rang De is working to fight poverty and help provide micro-loans to the underserved communities

By Sneha Banerjee

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Budget 2017: A Good Continuity in Skilling India

It is heartening to note that the government has rightfully recognized the need to "energize youth through education, skills and jobs".

By Gayathri Vasudevan

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Why it Pays to Be a Social Entrepreneur

Mobilising the rural population by providing the adequate means to help them earn and sustain a livelihood, and even flourish, is the surest way of swatting the peaking poverty graph down

By Ami Shroff

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When The Movie Swades Came To Life In The Form Of A Startup

Leaving behind his high paid job, Abhishek Chakraborty founded a venture to educate rural masses of India.

By Samiksha Jain