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This NGO in the Heart of Kamathipura Has Reached Out to 3,000 Women & 1,150...
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Manju Vyas remembers asking a 6-year-old. The young girl did not bat a lash saying, “I want to be a Madame. A brothel owner.” That one memory is clear as the...
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Period Leave & Hiring Transgender Candidates – a School Collective in Kerala...
The women staff teaching at self-financing schools across Kerala will now be able to avail one-day paid period leave every month. The announcement was made by the All Kerala Self-Financing Schools...
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How a Visually Impaired Man Helped Employ Over 7,000 Persons With Disabilities
In 2004, Dr. Jitender Aggarwal, a dentist, was robbed of his vision due to macular degeneration. After losing his sight, he came to realise the hardships differently abled people struggle with,...
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This Driving Institute in Gujarat Has Trained & Empowered Over 11,574 Tribal...
This article is a part of the #DriveSafeIndia series powered by Maruti Suzuki. “You are the son of a labourer. And that’s who you’ll always be,” a young Kiran Singh was told, when he struggled through...
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At Last, Indians Working in Qatar as Domestic Help Get Basic Legal Protection
If you live in Qatar and have hired a domestic help, it’s now unlawful to make them work for more than 10 hours. This is the first such protection law for housemaids, cooks, and nannies that have been...
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Kochi Metro All Set to Deploy 60 Transgender Employees in the Next 2 Years!
Kerala made headlines when it appointed 23 transgenders to work for the Kochi Metro. But it is a no secret that the employees started quitting when most turned a blind eye to the possible miseries the...
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Here’s How a Mumbai Engineer Is Transforming Underprivileged Lives Free of Cost!
For 40 years, Ashok Rane took classes at night and worked tirelessly during the day so he could become an engineer that made a difference to this country. Growing up in rural Maharashtra, Ashok was...
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For Rohingya Refugees in Telangana, This Night School Is a New Lease of Life
The crisis in which the Rohingya community has found itself deeply muddled in, is undoubtedly one of the worst cases of human rights infringement in present times. With hundreds being killed by the...
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After Struggling to Find Jobs, Acid Attack Survivors and Transgender Hired by...
In a first-of-its-kind decision, the Delhi High Court hired five acid attack survivors and a transgender person on Wednesday. All of them had faced discrimination and were struggling with finding jobs....
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This Kozhikode Startup Is Getting Fresh Graduates Ready for Engineering Jobs!
In Bengaluru, Mohammad Harris and Anoop KC spent their 20s working for big companies but always wanted to start one of their own. Their wish came true when both of them quit their jobs and came to...
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These 5 Award-Winning Innovations Will Rekindle Your Belief in ‘Tech for Good’
This article is powered by NASSCOM Foundation. It is common to observe that the crème de la crème of society enjoy the abundant fruits of technology. But thankfully there are still many innovators in...
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How a Homeless Graduate Became Andhra Govt’s First Transgender Employee
26-year-old Janaki, who was born as Penugonda Siva, was aware of her gender identity since childhood but was always forced to suppress her instincts and act like a boy. Coming from a humble background,...
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More Expenses? Here’s What an Expert Predicts About the Budget 2018
As the entire country gears up for Budget 2018, The Better India spoke to the Executive Director of a prominent, publicly listed company, and asked him for his views. Here are our predictions: The...
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These 11 IIM Grads Gave up High-Paying Jobs to Transform Countless Lives
This article is sponsored by Axis Bank In the Jatara block of Bundelkhand in Madhya Pradesh, villagers may not have ‘pukka’ houses, but every household seems to have an unlicensed gun or sword. Facing...
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This Pune Initiative Is Offering Discounted Flight Tickets to Defence...
Every day, across airlines in India, almost 40,000 seats go vacant. Despite this happening, more than 5000 jawans from our armed forces travel in the general compartment every day due to unavailability...
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Railways to Set up Coach Factory in Maharashtra, Will Invest 600 Crores!
The Indian Railways has decided to manufacture Metro coaches and is setting up a factory in Latur, for the same. However, there’s something different about this Rs 600 crore project—if things go as...
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Should You Pursue Arts In India? The Data Reveals The Surprising Answer
Recently, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computer Inc was on the radar of most Indians for calling out the lack of creativity in our society. He did receive a ton of backlash, but also praise...
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Starting Young: This 77-Year-Old Delhite Runs a Job Portal for Retired Senior...
Vipul Prakash had never thought about what a casual meeting with his uncle would help him do. Ramesh Vij–Vipul’s uncle was soon getting retired from his job, and this was a cause of anxiety for him....
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10 Ways to Address Lack of Caste Diversity in Your Organisation
In response to my recent article on the lack of Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi (DBA) representation in India’s development sector—the very communities the sector seeks to serve—friends and colleagues from the...
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India’s Maternity Law is Progressive But Can Hurt Women: Here’s What Govt Can Do
When the Parliament passed the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016, into law on March 9, 2016, many women across social media platforms praised the move, especially one provision—increasing paid...
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What’s The Value of A Homemaker’s Day of Work? Govt Plans to Find Out Soon!
My mother is a homemaker. Like almost all homemakers, it is an unpaid form of daily work. So what is the monetary value of work like that? Without getting into the gender politics of it, I can frankly...
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Can Jobs in Retail Stores Empower the Differently Abled? Pankh Shows it Can!
This article is sponsored by Accenture. If you happen to visit a McDonald’s outlet in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, you may be greeted with a warm smile by Viral Khamar. He may not be able to hear you or speak...
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Meet The Woman Whose Orchard Will Give Ladakh’s Stunning Handicrafts a New Home
Despite being born in the land of high passes, Rigzin Wangmo Lachic Goji, the daughter of a serving Indian Air Force officer from Ladakh, had barely lived there. Education and vocation had taken her...
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Employment to Agriculture: Meet the Startup Helping States Revolutionise...
What is the work of a District Collector? What does a Block Development Office do? What is the life of a farmer like? What are the motivations of a government school teacher? These were some of the...
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Nagaland Woman Quits Dream Job to Build a Better Future for 1 Lakh Youngsters!
In 2001, more than six thousand people from the North East (NE) migrated to Bengaluru, and almost 67,000 more migrated to Delhi, according to the Census data. Since then, the numbers have been...
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Meet the IIT-Grad-Turned-IFS-Officer Who Helped Save Sikkim’s Forests & Dying...
As a child, Sandeep Tambe would spend his holidays with his parents and two sisters in their ancestral village of Nakawal in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla district. Nakawal is a picturesque village along the...
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30-YO Ex-World Bank Consultant Invents Education App, Helps 4000+ Kids in Odisha
While India is working to increase the number of seats in IITs and IIMs to make these coveted institutions of higher learning more accessible to students and digital learning is taking over schools in...
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This Couple’s Unique School in Assam Accepts Plastic Waste as School Fees!
This article is part of #IndiansAgainstPlastic series. The Better India and Karnival.com are recognizing 5 heroes who are ensuring the fight against plastic is a battle to the finish, leading to a...
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In a First, Gujarat Passes Landmark Bill to Let Shops & Malls Remain Open 24×7
Finding shops and stores that function 24×7 in India is near impossible. But if you visit any place in Gujarat, you’ll be up for a surprise! In a landmark move, on Wednesday, May 1, the state...
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1000+ Tribal Youth From 51 Villages Now Have Jobs, Thanks To This MP Forest...
Beyond the mandate of nature conservation, forest officers often have the delicate task of balancing these elements with the interests of tribal communities who live in India’s forests. “During the...
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Unaware of Key Govt Schemes, 100 Tribal Families Find Guardian Angels in Maha...
Draupadi Waghmare, a resident of Khalapur in Raigad begins each day at 5 am to make sure she gets the freshest vegetables for her regular customers. After preparing lunch for her children, the...
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Indian Man’s Tea Stall in London Is Empowering Refugees, One Chai At a Time!
Amani Wadood (name changed) does not hesitate anymore while conversing in English. From offering directions to people who are lost, ordering his favourite food items and discussing news, the 26-year...
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Man Quit His Marketing Job to Sell Snacks by Rural Women, Has Sold over 2...
In December 2017, when Vinay Kothari ventured out on a trek to the Malnad region of the Western Ghats, little did he know that a business idea would strike him there. Check out these yummy snacks by...
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This Chennai Startup Trained Over 250+ Transpersons, Placed 90+ in Jobs For...
Hayathi and Raghav PR belong to different states i.e. Andhra Pradesh and Kerala respectively, have different lives, backgrounds and circle of friends. However, one thing binds them together. Strength,...
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This Man’s Vision Made 2.5 Lakh Households Healthier with Low-Cost Water...
We may not realise it, but water as a resource is slowly and steadily becoming elusive. Several states have faced back-to-back droughts, resulting in villages being declared ‘severely...
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Here’s How This Father-Son Duo Helped Plant 50 Lakh Trees in Just 9 Years!
This article has been powered by Grow-Trees. Almost 30 years ago, in Israel, Mr Pradip Shah received a unique gift—a garden with 100 trees, planted in his name as a token of appreciation for the...
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Hyderabad Woman Helps 1800 People with Disabilities Get Jobs, Despite the...
Hyderabad-based Lulu Behmanshah was barely a year old when she was abandoned on the railway tracks. A social worker brought her to an orphanage, with a bad injury that would eventually lead to...
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The Forgotten Maharashtra Village That Gave Birth to India’s Favourite Candies
As a child, my family used to stay in Mumbai’s Kandivali area. One of my fondest memories from that time came thanks to a wheelchair-bound and speech-impaired uncle in his fifties. He would come out of...
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Woman Entrepreneur Launches a Multi-Crore Food Empire at 69, Teaches Us To Dream
If you, like thousands of others, have enjoyed a hot meal onboard Indigo, then you have Radha Daga to thank. How many of us would have noticed the name of the company – Triguni Foods – that...
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You Don’t Need to Pay For These Online Classes Until You Get a Job With Rs 6...
Little over a year ago, Rohit Kushwaha, the son of an auto driver from a remote village in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, was struggling to find quality employment after completing his B.Tech from...
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With 3 Lakh Trees, Jharkhand IFS Officer Transforms 5000-Hectare Forest In 4...
when the 2016-batch Indian Forest Officer (IFS), Vikas Ujjawal, was posted as Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) he saw a plethora of problems that were responsible for the stunted growth of Jharkhand’s...
View ArticleWatch: 14-Year-Old Starts LED Company To Provide Jobs To Villagers During...
In early 2020, as the coronavirus ravaged the country, lockdowns were announced and millions of Indians lost their jobs, the people in Amar Prajapati’s village in Gorakhpur were no exception. As Amar...
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, These Lawyers Will Fight Your Legal Cases For Free
Ravi (name changed) a resident of Mumbai, had spent over 12 years in a private organisation. At the time when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the company he was working for decided to terminate his...
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IAS Officer’s Simple Idea Shelters Hundreds of Homeless During the Pandemic
The scenes of helpless migrant workers and the destitute putting themselves and their families at risk of the coronavirus, by walking back to their native lands in the aftermath of the nation-wide...
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App Helps Over 250 Tailors in Bengaluru & Delhi Find Work During The Pandemic
Kurshid Alam’s tailoring business was heavily hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. His small factory in Bengaluru, which he had set up with some success in 2019, had to shut down temporarily due to the...
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‘Why Join IT When You Can Become a Driver & Earn More?’: Engineer Shares...
In an age where ingenuity and skill can get you to climb up the financial ladder faster, it is often tough to choose between mainstream career alternatives and jobs that require minimal cognitive...
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What Inspired Me to Open a Cafe That Employs People with Speech & Hearing...
This article has been sponsored by Uber We all dream with our eyes closed but only a few dare to dream with their eyes open. This is a rare breed of dreamers who have a promise to keep — to honour...
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60-YO Helps 1000 Kashmiri Women Earn From Embroidery During Pandemic
The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has recorded the second-highest unemployment rate in the country at 46 per cent. The successive lockdowns and clampdowns in the last three years have given a...
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I Was Widowed With No Income & 3 Kids at 24; Today I Employ Women Like Me &...
Life moved swiftly for Lalita Debi Singh, a resident of the Rayagada district in Odisha. Growing up in a poor home, financial constraints forced her to drop out of Class 8. Like most girls in her...
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Forced to Leave Home for Job, 50-YO Creates Employment for 100s in India’s...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of freshers migrate to new cities in different states and countries in search of jobs, leaving the comfort of their homes. While Indians top the list of educated...
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