Rural Development Institute Update

Promoting Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM)RDI works with adolescent girls and women, promotes and facilitates reproductive healthcare awareness, education and services mainly in the rural and mountainous region of Uttarakhand. One of its important components is...

Engaging and Empowering Adolescents

Adolescence is a special phase of life. After working with adolescents for past 25 years, RDI strongly believes that adolescents are an enormous untapped resource and potential who can perform significant role in the societal development, therefore they should be...

International Women’s Day

On March 8th, 2019, RDI joined in worldwide celebration of International Women’s Day. This day is celebrated globally with varied emotions. Marked as a day to spread messages for social reform earlier, the trends now are towards celebrating the spirit of womanhood. A...

The Rendering of the Ramayana: RDI Scholars Recite Ramayana

Swami Rama Tirtha said of the hero of Ramayana, Rama, that when he started to regain Sita, which represents Divine Knowledge, all nature offered services to Him. Monkeys, geese, squirrels and even stones, air and water vied with one another to enlist on his side....

Inclusive Steps toward Rehabilitation

SAKSHAM was initiated in 2011 in Chakrata, Doiwala, Bahadrabad and Nazibabad. The objective of the program was to offer people with disability a platform to avail social, health, education and income generation welfare so they can be part of mainstream development....

The Gandhian Way for the Villages

As India begins the commemoration of the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth celebrations, it is worth going down memory lane to recall the time Swami Rama spent with Gandhiji. Bhole (as Swami Rama was known in his youth) asked his master the reason why Gandhiji was...