Rural

In the period between May 14 and July 17, seven villagers were killed in tiger attacks along the periphery of the reserve. Officials say they are likely to witness more such cases.

Rural demand picks up as consumer optimism holds steady, RBI’s bulletin says

High-frequency indicators of aggregate demand for May suggested a pick-up in rural demand, especially given the strong performance of the agricultural sector, RBI bulletin says

Rising Bharat Summit 2025: Bharat has more paying capacity than urban consumers, say founders of consumer brands

This comes at a time when new-age sectors like quick commerce and food delivery are struggling to scale past urban markets due to reduced demand and a lower total addressable market (TAM) beyond the top eight markets.

Rural growth surges in FMCG sector in Q3, outpaces urban market for fourth consecutive quarter

Rural areas have surpassed the large urban markets in growth for the fourth consecutive quarter, according to the latest NielsenIQ FMCG Quarterly Snapshot.

MGNREGS outlay left unchanged at Rs 86,000 crore

This is the second time, the Centre has left the allocation for the rural job plan unchanged. For the current fiscal, too, the outlay for the scheme was the same as in 2023-24 at Rs 86,000 crore

Economic Survey 2025: Rural areas get 21.9 hours of power supply daily on an average

However, the economic survey stated that the addition of transmission lines was affected by the heavy monsoon conditions that hampered work.

Indo Farm Equipment IPO: A quality issue at a steep valuation

Strong backward integration helps the company sustain high EBITDA margin

Rural literacy rate up over 10% points in past decade: Govt tells Lok Sabha

It was also told that the literacy rate among women rose 14.50 percentage points during this period.

Karnataka: Six startups to partner with rural development department to tackle water scarcity, sanitation issues

Six startups, winners at the Karnataka Rural Water and Sanitation Sustainability Summit, received Rs 25 lakh each in funding

Karnataka to launch e-commerce portal to promote products made by rural women

Karnataka Minister for Skill Development, Livelihood, and Medical Education Sharan Prakash Patil said that the state government’s Swavalambane programme is empowering rural women and transforming them into entrepreneurs.

Quarterly rural jobs data from September, monthly unemployment data likely from January

From quarterly release of unemployment, labour force participation and worker population ratio, India is set to switch to monthly data releases from January onwards.

Fiscal deficit at 5% of GDP for FY25, nominal growth at 11%: MC Economists Poll

Budget will provide a push for rural economy; economists cite jobless growth and muted consumption as primary concerns

Inflation hurt poorer states more than rich ones post pandemic

At 5.9%, average inflation in the five poorest states in the country, between January 2022 and June 2024, was higher than 5.78% logged by the five richest states in per capita terms

MC Analysis: Budget FY25 - Industry bodies push for an over Rs 1 lakh crore boost to economy

A large proportion, nearly 60%, is expected to go towards capex

India's consumption spending inequality fell in 2022-23 vs 2011-12: Survey

The Gini coefficient for total consumption expenditure, the most commonly used measure of inequality, declined for both rural and urban India. While it decreased to 0.266 in 2022-23 from 0.283 in 2011-12 for the rural sector, for urban households it fell to 0.314 from 0.363 for the same period.

Rural India spent lowest 6.2% on education among non-food in 2022-23: MoSPI Survey

On conveyance, the rural and urban sectors spent 14.1 percent each of their non-food expenditure in 2022-23, the survey showed.

Meet BJP's Dr CN Manjunath, who is taking on Congress' DK brothers in Bengaluru Rural

The Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha constituency is considered a stronghold of Vokkaligas and the JDS. Both Suresh and Manjunath are from the Vokkaliga community.

Household Consumption Survey: Sikkim tops rural, urban spending, Goa is second; Chhattisgarh ranks lowest

Among the total of 36 states and Union Territories in the country, 27 registered higher rural expenditure compared to the all-India average MPCE figure of Rs 3,773 in 2022-23. UP, Bengal, Odisha, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, and Assam ranked lower than the national average.

Crompton Consumer Q3: A balanced risk-reward profile

The management reiterates its focus on scaling up distribution and spurring growth in the e-commerce and rural markets

Indian consumer goods sector slows; rural shows recovery signs: NielsenIQ

Consumer goods makers, over the last few quarters, grappled with subdued sales in the hinterlands as people cut back spending on both essentials and discretionary items amid price pressures.

Dabur shares surge 5% as Q3 net rises 8% on brisk business in rural markets, eye on budget

Since the FMCG player has positioned itself to maximise on the rural sector, the counter will be closely watched to see if any announcements during the interim budget 2024.

Retail inflation for farm, rural workers rises in July

Retail inflation for farm and rural workers inched up to 7.43 percent and 7.26 percent in July compared to 6.31 percent and 6.16 percent, respectively, in June this year, mainly due to higher prices of certain food items.

World Population Day: Middle class vs super rich in India | How rich do you have to be?

Middle class form the backbone of the Indian economy, but growing even faster are the ‘super rich’ category, more importantly households from India’s villages which are growing at a faster pace than households in metro cities. But as the saying goes, while the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting rich too, with the number of destitute going to reduce by half by the time we turn 100. World Population Day 2023.

HUL chief Sanjiv Mehta sees end to volatility in 4-5% volume growth for FMCG

For FY23, HUL's rural volumes declined 7 percent while in Q4 FY23, the fall was about 3 percent

Bihar govt serves notices to 2.21 lakh people for not completing houses under PMAY

The Rural Development department of the state government has also initiated departmental action against 347 government employees (309 Aawaas Sahayak and 38 Awaas Paryavekshak) for not ensuring complete construction of houses even after disbursal of the entire amount to the account of beneficiaries in their respective rural blocks.