World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA

A look at how the world's largest public wage programme has helped fight water shortage and revive India's agrarian economy

The chase and the change: Let’s look back at 15 years of MGNREGA this World Water Day

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has shown what it can achieve by putting water conservation at its core
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Secure from drought: How MGNREGA changed lives in Bandlapalli

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The village from where the scheme was launched in India, has remained untouched by drought in a water-scarce region
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Reverse migration: How MGNREGA has raised Barmani’s water table

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
People in Sidhi district now farm 10 months a year; even those who had quit farming are returning to it
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River revived: MGNREGA bring Palakkad women to water conservation forefront

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
India’s largest group of women well diggers and a unique river conservation movement
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Parched no more: MGNREGA enables multi-cropping in Bundelkhand’s Himmatpura

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
A check dam has allowed a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jalaun district to grow crops in two cycles
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Security ring: How MGNREGA rejuvenated tanks of a Tikamgarh village

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
A network of 55 tanks that get filled up one after the other when it rains, has cured this village of droughts
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Jobs round the year: How MGNREGA made Balangir job-secure

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The success of MGNREGA projects has made Odisha offer 300 days of guaranteed work a year to curb distress migration in this district
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Saline solution: How MGNREGA helped Nagapattinam recover from the 2004 tsunami

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
Two villages in the Tamil Nadu district fought soil salinity through MGNREGA
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Flour surplus: Ponds transformed farming in villages of Jharkhand's Pakur

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act helped flood-hit Jhenagaria build back stronger
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How a water project put women in charge and turned the fortunes of a dry Bengal village

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
With men quitting agriculture to work as unskilled labourers, women lead measures to curb soil erosion
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How MGNREGA water conservation project turned a Rajasthan district into an Oasis

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The greenery in Dungarpur district is a stark contrast to the desert state
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A quick fix: How ponds built under MGNREGA turned lives around

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The realisation that ponds can rapidly recharge groundwater has increased demand for MGNREGA
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How 3-pond systems helped villagers double yield, save lakhs

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
A system of three ponds to recycle grey water from the village has helped farmers and panchayats save lakhs of rupees
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How historical methods helped landless farmers earn a living

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
Farmers revive traditional retention ponds that drain water during floods and retain moisture in droughts
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Recharge plan: Tupewadi’s tryst with MGNREGA a boost to water table

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
Having depleted groundwater, Jalna farmers replenish the resource through bunds
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Levelled out: MGNREGA helps bring in more land under cultivation in Ranga Reddy

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
Having levelled the terrain, farmers for the first time take up agriculture
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Orchard in nowhere: How MGNREGA has helped in greening up Sabarkantha villages

World Water Day: How Indian villages used 15 years of MGNREGA
The district in arid northern Gujarat has taken up orchard cultivations
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