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
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 10%96/100
A missed-call IVR platform lets illiterate, Gondi-speaking villagers in Chhattisgarh record and hear local news without internet or literacy; peer-reviewed research logged …
Raipur, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 10%96/100
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
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 10%96/100
Since 2008, Digital Green has trained community mediators to produce and screen localised farming videos, reaching 2.3 million+ farmers across 10 countries …
AirJaldi Networks builds solar-powered wireless broadband across rural India, registering roughly 200,000 users over 40 networks in nine states since piloting in …
Dharamshala, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
India's Unique Disability ID (UDID) replaces fragmented paper certificates with one national digital card spanning 21 disability categories, linked to e-KYC and …
Founded in 2004 by Shilpi Kapoor, Mumbai's BarrierBreak employs testers and consultants with disabilities to audit and co-design digital products for clients …
Mumbai, India
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 24%92/100
India's SugamyaWeb lets government departments self-test websites against GIGW accessibility standards; 200+ departments used it to fix 100,000+ issues, even as reporting …
India's PM SVANidhi micro-credit scheme pairs working-capital loans to street vendors with mandatory UPI/QR digital-payment onboarding and cashback. By mid-2026 over 5.5 …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
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
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%89/100
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
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 17%89/100
Since 2008, Barefoot College in Tilonia, India has trained over 1,700 rural, often illiterate, women from 96 countries as solar engineers, electrifying …
Tilonia, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 30%88/100
India's 1.3-billion-enrolment Aadhaar ID leans on fingerprint checks that degrade for manual labourers and the elderly. UIDAI's iris-scan fallback catches many failures, …
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
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 1%87/100
Launched in 1995, Ahmedabad's Parivartan programme used a four-way cost-share between the city, NGOs, private donors and residents to connect 41 slum …
Ahmedabad, India
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 26%85/100
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
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 26%85/100
Launched in 2021, India's e-Shram portal has registered over 310 million informal workers into a national database, but independent reviews find only …