Electrification and Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women in India

Socio-Economic Status of Women in India: A Review

Any assessment of the status of women has to start from the social framework, social structures, cultural norms and value systems that influence social expectations regarding the behaviour of both men and women and determine women‟s roles and their position in society. A society is composed of many institutions and most important of them are the system of decent, family and kinship, marriage an...

Economic Empowerment of Women

Women Empowerment and Economic Development

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...

Rural Electrification in India: Economic and Institutional aspects of Renewables

The paper assesses the demand for rural electricity services and contrasts it with the technology options available for rural electrification. Decentralised Distributed Generation can be economically viable as reflected by case studies reported in literature and analysed in our field study. Project success is driven by economically viable technology choice; however it is largely contingent on o...

ICT Mediated Learning for Socio-Economic Empowerment

ICT can advance the learning process by making it faster, cheaper, and wider reaching that was not possible before. This form of learning can be treated as an interactive one among many and supporting the improvement of this process is expected to produce better result. However, innovative processes have to be incorporated both in terms of pedagogy and technology. Pedagogy should be universal a...