Today's Topic: Changing the Rural Economy in India Part 1 with Dr. Vibha Gupta
Dr. Gupta talks about women in the work force in rural India. She has been working in the field of rural technology, women technology, for the last 30 years. She is an economist from Delhi University and has a masters in social work and a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology.
They discuss three major sectors, artisans of India, the farmers and the women. Women technology center, it is important to make women economically empowered. Dr. Gupta is working with 10-12,000 women in rural India on 132 products and there are 35 enterprises/zones that she makes. This allows women to have technical skills, productions and services skills to be a free entity. 32 of these thousands of women became leaders in their own villages, and can make decisions in their own village, they have helped their empowerment financially as well as health etc.
