A woman carries cow dung to prepare dung cakes in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Village women carry vessels filled drinking water from a village to their homes due to water crisis in this area at Malda district.

A village woman collects water from an almost dried up well at a village in Surgana Taluka, around 95 kms from Nasik, Maharashtra.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in group photograph with the youth who have been working in rural areas under Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) scheme, in New Delhi.

Grim statistic Fifty-five per cent of all rural families depend on daily wages

Ratan Tata, chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons limited with N Chandrababu Naidu at a function of adoption of 264 villages under govt of AP and TATA TRUST.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar gives OBC certificate to a woman during the inauguration of first village Secretariat at Haibatpur Village in Jind.

Haryana Rural women at Parliament on Budget Session, in New Delhi.

Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh speaks to the media after attending the budget session at Parliament House in New Delhi.

Village Man talking on phone in Manpura Machedi village, Jaipur District of Rajasthan

Members of Rural Health Practitioners Association of Assam staging a protest, demanding the regularization of their jobs at Lakhidhar Bora Khetra in Guwahati, Assam.

Cricket legend and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar performs rituals as he officially adopts the Puttamraju Kandrika village in Nellore district under the Prime Minister's Sansaad A...

Rural trouble Survivors of the tubectomy camp in Bilaspur being treated

The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Rural Development, Drinking Water & Sanitation and Panchayati Raj, Nitin Gadkari taking an aerial inspection of the Seth...

Rural touch A woman living on the outskirts of Jaipur reaches out to a dear one

Nameproud The village Ravana in Vidisha district

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram and G S Sandhu, Secretary, Department of Financial Services during a seminar on Rural Finance, in New Delh...

Reaching Out An SVYM doctor at work in a village

Minister of Transport and Rural Development Nitin Gadkari arrives at Parliament, New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several members of his cabinet, Congress President Sonia G...

Poor villagers in Gangda panchayat, who live in the shadow of a mine, collect drinking water