Working at grassroots, a social venture is connecting rural India to world

They also set up a village development committee comprising of people from the village that carries forward the work in the community

Sneha Bhattacharjee 

Working at the grassroots and empowering the people in rural areas to build their own destiny, a social venture is making a difference in remote parts of the country A social business venture set up four years ago by four corporates who wanted to bring the corporate vigor to rural development — that’s how Mrida was born.

Since then, the four-member team now has 38 people onboard with presence in 38 villages across six different states and impacting over 20,000 people in a month. What started as a rural development project with major focus being on electrifying rural ...

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First Published: Sat, August 04 2018. 20:11 IST