rural economy

Rethinking rural cooperatives
October 4, 2026
However, we now need to look at the structure of rural cooperatives afresh, given the changed ecosystem and the players. The idea of a decentralised village-level financial institution as envisaged...
35 years of liberalisation: How the reforms bus bypassed India’s farms
September 30, 2026
It was feared that small and marginal farmers, who constituted 75 per cent of the farming community at that time,would be hurt  Yet, as the then Finance Minister Manmohan...