Care infrastructure, encompassing healthcare facilities, elderly care, childcare, and community support services, is fundamental to maintaining and improving societal well-being. Despite its critical role, a comprehensive bibliometric mapping of this interdisciplinary field remains a notable gap in the literature. This study addresses this by conducting a robust bibliometric analysis of global research trends in care infrastructure over the last 20 years (2003–2023). Data were systematically collected from the Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed databases and analysed using VOSviewer to assess research volume, geographical distribution, and thematic structure. The analysis reveals significant, accelerating growth in publications, particularly since 2015, signalling intensified global interest driven by population aging and public health challenges. Thematic analysis of keywords indicates that elderly care, healthcare access, and mental health facilities remain core areas of focus. Crucially, emerging trends such as digital health and sustainable infrastructure underscore the imperative to integrate technology and environmental sustainability into modern care systems.

The urgent need to bolster agricultural productivity against accelerating climate change necessitates rigorous financial and technological interventions. A critical empirical void persists in the global literature: the lack of robust evidence linking the rapid adoption of Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) to verifiable socio-economic resilience, especially among vulnerable farming populations. This study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of Scopus-indexed research, mapping the intellectual architecture of the DFI–Agricultural Productivity–Climate Resilience nexus. The findings reveal a persistent global impact measurement gap and a systemic failure to adequately develop context-specific and culturally relevant strategies for technology adoption. We identify underexplored areas such as advanced climate risk tools and rigorous outcome metrics. Crucially, this analysis mandates a strategic empirical shift toward the rural Jammu region, where policy intervention has recently fuelled an extraordinary surge: over 134 per cent growth in the value of Aadhar-enabled payment transactions (AePS). This unique context, defined by high-volume digital adoption among rural consumers and acute climate vulnerability affecting high-value crops (walnuts, saffron), provides the unparalleled setting required to test the causal link between digital transactions and climate-proofed agricultural outcomes. This paper synthesises the global deficits and provides a clear blueprint for future research, establishing rural Jammu as the essential frontier for translating digital access into measurable, equitable resilience for its farming communities.

The present paper aims to analyze how the decision on cuts in capital expenditure in the Indian Budget 2025-26 affects gender-oriented social investment programs like the BBBP program. However, there are significant shortages in spending that have improved over time. The total financing of gender equality initiatives has started to soar, with a 37 per cent rise in overall spending in absolute terms, 3.27 lakh crores to 4.49 lakh crores, a massive difference. Nevertheless, some schemes conditioned upon female criteria, including the National Creche Scheme and the Working Women Hostel Program, realized reductions, which undermined their ability to give empowerment to women, especially in rural regions. This paper examines the budget reduction versus gender equality funding trade-off and the associated consequences of how this Budget will affect gender empowerment, Education and the welfare of women. The paper also explains the barriers created by sociocultural norms and the need to conduct a gender-responsive Budget and better monitoring system to make these programs effective in terms of success and gender equity.

This paper investigates the severe psychological and socioeconomic toll exacted by structural caste discrimination on the Dom community, the indispensable funeral workers at Varanasi’s Manikarnika and Harishchandra Ghats. Despite their ritual essentiality for attaining moksha, the Dom community is relegated to the status of untouchables, enduring intense social stigma, geographic isolation, and low wages (averaging ₹250–300 per cremation), which collectively constitute chronic structural violence. The analysis demonstrates a critical public health crisis rooted in cumulative occupational trauma. Continuous exposure to death, fire, and smoke, combined with pervasive marginalization, results in high rates of chronic physical ailments and severe psychological distress, often manifesting as Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). Although there is little direct clinical evidence, the CPTSD symptoms are demonstrated by emotional numbing, hypervigilance, and dissociation, which is manifested in the community through the use of maladaptive coping styles, namely substance abuse. This unmanaged trauma drives institutionalised substance abuse (Nasha) among adult workers, serving as a necessary, maladaptive coping mechanism to perform their inhumane labor. This crisis has a profound intergenerational impact: parental incapacitation from trauma and addiction, coupled with extreme economic precarity, directly necessitates forced child labor—the Children of the Pyre. Consequently, trauma is inherited, ensuring the continuity of the stigmatized occupation. A critical evaluation demonstrates that current state welfare and single-focus rehabilitation efforts fail because they address individual symptoms rather than the underlying structural causes. Achieving genuine liberation requires a paradigm shift toward integrated, dual-generation policy, coupling trauma-informed mental healthcare with proactive SC benefit access and guaranteed alternative livelihood security for parents.

Universities especially the women Universities are transformative forces in the rural societies that do not only help in the education but also in the socio-economic development. Banasthali Vidyapith, one of the leading women colleges in the state of Rajasthan, has led by example, with its community-driven development activities targeting the empowerment of women and economic development of the rural communities. This case study is a qualitative case study that studies the process of empowerment at Banasthali Vidyapith through avenues of education, skill development, and employment. The research uses a multi-method study design that will involve surveys, interviews, and observational visits to determine how these programs affect the women in the local rural communities. Among the main results are the intergenerational employment, dignity in work, development of skills, and the impact of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in empowering women farmworkers. The results of the survey conducted among 28 participants indicated that 92 percent of the families living in the area have at least one of the members working at the university, and 85 percent of women who have attended training programs organized by the university claim to have a greater socio-economic stability. This paper highlights the importance of universities in rural development, which is in line with the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs): SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).

This study investigates the current landscape of library automation, ICT awareness, and stakeholder engagement within senior secondary school libraries in Greater Faridabad, Haryana, an educational hub experiencing rapid digital transformation. Anchored within the broader objectives of India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which advocates for digital inclusion and 21st-century skill development, this research evaluates the preparedness and performance of school libraries in integrating automated systems. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, comprising structured surveys administered to over 600 stakeholders, including librarians, teachers, and students across 30 private senior secondary schools. Findings indicate that only 58% of the surveyed libraries have adopted some level of automation primarily for cataloguing and circulation—while full integration with ICT tools remains limited. Notably, ICT awareness among staff and students is uneven, with 42% of teachers expressing limited familiarity with digital catalogues and e-resources, particularly in semi-urban or under-resourced zones of Greater Faridabad.

This paper presents a bibliometric research trend analysis of the evolving relationship between Banarasi Brocade and Kota Doria, two iconic yet structurally distinct Indian handloom traditions. Based on a corpus of 150 academic and industry sources published between 1989 and 2025, the study quantitatively maps the field’s growth, key thematic clusters, and emerging focus on textile fusion and cultural exchange. The analysis demonstrates a significant shift from isolated studies of each tradition toward research exploring motif transfer, hybrid textile development, and contemporary design intervention. By statistically validating the rise of a dedicated fusion-oriented discourse, the paper provides valuable insights for designers, scholars, policymakers, and conservationists seeking to preserve traditional craft while promoting modern innovation in Indian textiles.

This paper examines the evolving legal landscape of surrogacy in India with special reference to the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, and the wider questions of reproductive rights, human dignity, and family formation. It explores how surrogacy, once shaped by commercialization and the economic vulnerability of women, has now entered a new legal phase focused on altruistic models and ethical oversight. The study analyses key judicial developments, including Baby Manji Yamada, Jan Balaz, K.S. Puttaswamy, Jasmine Kaur, and Shahina, to understand how Indian courts have interpreted privacy, reproductive autonomy, foreign surrogacy, and access to surrogacy services. The paper also reflects on the limitations of the present regime, especially the non-recognition of de novo surrogacy, and argues for a more comprehensive framework that balances the rights of surrogate mothers, intended parents, and children born through surrogacy.