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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