Mba Sarpanch

He earned a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Derbyshire and was flooded with job offers. But Gurmeet Singh Bajwa had other dreams. He has just been elected a sarpanch of a small village close to the Pakistan border.The 28-year-old says this is what he is committed to: Serve village folks still steeped in poverty and corruption."At one po...

There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontli...

On International Women's Day, an inspiring story from the backwaters of Rajasthan, a state with among the worst records on women's rights but a young woman, a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College Delhi and an MBA, gave up a cushy corporate job to become the sarpanch of her village.

He earned a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Derbyshire and was flooded with job offers. But Gurmeet Singh Bajwa had other dreams. He has just been elected a sarpanch of a small village close to the Pakistan border.The 28-year-old says this is what he is committed to: Serve village folks still steeped in poverty and corruption."At one po...

There was a sense of disbelief among ministers and ambassadors from diverse nations when the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations introduced the jeans-clad Chhavi Rajawat as head of a village in India.For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontli...

On International Women's Day, an inspiring story from the backwaters of Rajasthan, a state with among the worst records on women's rights but a young woman, a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College Delhi and an MBA, gave up a cushy corporate job to become the sarpanch of her village.