Month: June 2026

Ten crore rural women in India now belong to a Self Help Group. The Ministry of Rural Development told the Lok Sabha in October 2024 that DAY-NRLM has mobilised 10.05 crore women into roughly 90.87 lakh SHGs, a scale of community institution-building with no real parallel anywhere else in the…

Three years ago, an NPO leader said something during a strategy session that captures where the sector was: “We are a development organisation, not a stock market entity.” That same organisation recently reached out asking how to prepare for SSE listing. The accountability infrastructure of India’s social sector is changing.…