India's 73rd Constitutional Amendment (1992) reserved one-third of seats in rural Panchayati Raj institutions for women. Over 1.4 million women now hold …
New Delhi, India
Good practice★ 96
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Bengaluru-based Thinkerbell Labs built Annie, an audio-guided, self-correcting braille teaching device that lets blind and low-vision students learn independently. Deployed in over …
Bengaluru, India
Good practice★ 96
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Since 2008, Digital Green has trained community mediators to produce and screen localised farming videos, reaching 2.3 million+ farmers across 10 countries …
Bengaluru, India
Good practice★ 92
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Government-backed Indian digital library giving people with print disabilities free access to accessible-format books. Launched 2016 with 200,000+ titles; by its third …
New Delhi, India
Good practice★ 89
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Since 2008, Delhi's Azad Foundation has trained 6,000+ marginalised women as taxi, delivery and two-wheeler drivers, placing 4,500+ in paid transport jobs …
New Delhi, India
Good practice★ 89
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Since 2008, Barefoot College in Tilonia, India has trained over 1,700 rural, often illiterate, women from 96 countries as solar engineers, electrifying …
India's national rural digital literacy scheme trained 63.9 million people across 81,930 centres in 22 Indian languages, equipping one member per rural …
New Delhi, India
Good practice★ 87
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
India's 2005 Hindu Succession Amendment gave daughters equal birthright to ancestral property. Studies show gains in inheritance, schooling and marriage age, but …
New Delhi, India
Good practice★ 85
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
India's MeitY-run BHASHINI mission gives citizens AI speech/text translation across 22 languages, embedded in e-Shram, Defence Production and Parliament portals and the …
New Delhi, India
Good practice★ 74
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Tata Trusts and Google India's Internet Saathi programme trained close to 60,000 rural women as digital-literacy trainers ('saathis'), reaching over 20 million …