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Hans India
06-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
On First World Rural Development Day, discover how villages are driving India's growth story
In a symbolic development, the UN General Assembly has declared that from this year onwards, July 6 will be observed as World Rural Development Day, reaffirming its commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. In India, the past one and a half decades have witnessed a notable push in this direction, supported by policymakers, rural development enterprises, including NPOs, and change leaders working in partnership with local bodies. These joint efforts are now reflected in the country's economic indicators, as highlighted in the Economic Survey 2024–25, that the urban-rural divide is narrowing at a steady pace, with rural consumption gaining momentum - the gap in Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) has reduced to 70 per cent in 2023–24, down from 84 per cent in 2011–12. Observing World Rural Development Day also offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role of development organisations in India that are already aligned with the UN's objectives. Anirban Ghose, Managing Director, Transform Rural India (TRI) says, 'At Transform Rural India, we see this day as a celebration of the spirit that drives our villages forward. Rural communities are not passive recipients of change, they are its architects. Strengthening their agency and creating enabling systems of change around them is key to building a more equitable, balanced, and future-ready India.' Collective efforts to strengthen resilience, inclusivity, and balance in urban-rural dynamics are essential to a country's economic and social development. Anju Devi, a farmer and community member from Boda village of Ranchi, Jharkhand says, 'When we finally came together as a community and took charge of our own future, the growth we experienced was genuine and lasting. Real change only started to happen when we opened up to each other, shared our struggles, and joined hands to find solutions together. It was in those moments of unity that we truly began to move forward, side by side.' Transform Rural India will host the fifth edition of its flagship event, the India Rural Colloquy, from August 1-8 – a gathering across five states of the thought leaders and changemakers building India's rural renaissance, along with the launch of three major reports on youth, health and CSR impact.
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Time of India
OTPs help Noida man find wife, daughter believed to have died five years ago
Noida: A mother-daughter duo, who went missing in 2020, was traced and found by police in Rajasthan's Jodhpur. The woman allegedly took her daughter with her after being harassed by her Sharma, a facility engineer living in Sector 49 and Anju Devi got married in 2008 and had a son and a July 3, 2020, Devi allegedly told her mother-in-law that she was taking her daughter to the market and would return in some time, but never did lodged a missing report of his daughter and wife five years ago and tried hard to find them.A case was registered under section 365 (abduction or kidnapping) of the IPC. Sharma alleged that the police did not take any action even after four months of filing the a lot of efforts, they could not be found, following which he approached the high the course of action, police twice confirmed the recovery of the bodies of an unknown woman and a also filed a final report (FR) in Nov 2022 and Nov 2023 when a woman and her daughter died after being hit by a train in Shahdara, body seemed similar to that of the missing woman, and the same was confirmed by her family, hence, police issued a final report in the when Sharma was shown the bodies, he refused to identify them and continued his search.A twist in the tale came in Feb 2025 when the man received two Aadhaar-related OTP's on his he checked, he found that it was linked to his daughter's name. He informed the police about the on the Aadhaar details, a police team reached Jodhpur in Rajasthan and found the woman and her daughter living duo has been brought and stationed at the One Stop Centre in Sector 62. Officials said they will soon record their statements inthe into account the negligence in the police investigation, a departmental inquiry has been ordered against the then investigating officer (IO), the station in-charge, and the ACP."We have found serious negligence in the investigation of this case, on which action is now being taken at the departmental level," an officer told TOI.
