# Rural women sacrifice sleep for government training 2026-08-09T06:00:04+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A woman told The Hindu she woke up earlier and slept later to attend a government skill training programme, without any help at home. Her experience reflects a common pattern across rural India where women's unpaid care work leaves no free time for such opportunities. Programmes like Namo Drone Didi and livelihood missions assume women have spare time, but they often borrow it from sleep. Economists call this unpaid care work, but planning documents do not account for it. Women walk in late to sessions because morning chores do not wait. Trainings clash with cooking, childcare, and animal feeding. While the programmes are well-intentioned, they fail to consider that time must be freed first through support like childcare or adjusted schedules, says The Hindu. ## Coverage - thehindu.com Tags: government training, Namo Drone Didi, rural India, time poverty, unpaid care work, women Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rural-women-sacrifice-sleep-for-government-training/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rural-women-sacrifice-sleep-for-government-training/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.