Union Budget 2024-25: No respite for rural employment as MGNREGS allocation unchanged from 2023-24
Of the Rs 86,000 crore allotted under the interim budget, only Rs 54,000 crore will be available for utilisation for financial year 2024-25
Yes, India needs agrarian reform, but that which is pro-people, not pro-corporate
Here are the steps that central and state governments can take to adopt a pro-people and nature-friendly economic development model for Indian …
How a water project put women in charge and turned the fortunes of a dry Bengal village
With men quitting agriculture to work as unskilled labourers, women lead measures to curb soil erosion
River revived: MGNREGA bring Palakkad women to water conservation forefront
India’s largest group of women well diggers and a unique river conservation movement
Migration in India: A shift in agenda
Migration is an adaptation strategy for communities vulnerable to climate change impacts. Governments should plan for such demographic shifts
Centre to send babus to 255 water-stressed districts. Here’s what they should keep in mind
MGNREGS has implemented a slew of projects, but to hardly any effect. We need to look at the problem afresh
Consult us on linking agriculture with MGNREGA: Farmers write to PM
Rashtriya Kisan Mahashangha demands farmers's involvement in deliberations over use of MGNREGA in farm sector
Rural unemployment in central India: Why Adivasi communities are worst-hit
The focus of MGNREGA has to be re-shifted to employment generation from asset building
75 years of people’s power: How Yerlapady in Karnataka sourced funds to manage grey water
The village made efficient use of MGNREGS funds to construct soak pits
Global unemployment projected to stand at 207 million in 2022: ILO
The COVID-19 pandemic prevented a full and balanced recovery of labour markets in 2021
Union Budget 2020-21: An expert’s guide to rural distress
Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis
Look back at the decade: 2010-2019
Developments that shaped the world in the second decade of the new millenium
World Environment Day 2023: This project in south India is all about bridging art, conservation and empowerment
Adivasis make life-sized elephants from lantana; this provides them with employment besides decreasing lantana in the forest and raises awareness …
Rural distress: Demand for MGNREGA work sees spike again
This points to rural distress despite absence of COVID-19 restrictions on economic activities for past few months
COVID-19 unemployment: Make agri-food systems equitable for youth, says UN report
The report emphasised on the role of youth as agents of change in food systems
The chase and the change: Let’s look back at 15 years of MGNREGA this World Water Day
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has shown what it can achieve by putting water conservation at its core
Can MGNREGA data serve as real-time index for rural distress?
Four researchers correlated IMD's drought data with the demand for and supply of MGNREGA jobs and created an online interactive map to show areas …
India heads to an unprecedented rural economic crisis
Fifth consecutive drought for 1/3 districts, dipping rural wages, El Nino threatening monsoon have squeezed livelihood options for over 500 …
87% of MGNREGA's annual fund already spent
More than a third of India is facing drought-like situation and a fund crunch in MGNREGA for the remaining financial year can perpetuate the …
Does poverty trigger extremism?
Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism
COVID-19 rural crisis: Why MGNREGA needs a harder push
MGNREGA workers across the country on June 29 staged peaceful demonstration, raised demands for higher benefits and wages
How MGNREGA helps revive village infra, increase employment in Haryana
Villagers gain employment through the job guarantee scheme, used as a means to revive rural infrastructure like reservoirs, cattle sheds
A monumental waste: Crores spent on water-related works haven’t readied Jharkhand for droughts; here’s why
Poor planning of water conservation and water harvesting structures is a major reason
Budget 2023-24: Whither rural development? Allocation for livelihood and other schemes sees 14% cuts
Funds for central sector schemes and projects have been reduced to 113 crore from Rs 126 crore
Culture of random, centralised monitoring is killing the spirit of MGNREGA
We do not need systems that alienate people from work and give further control to bureaucracy and frontline functionaries who are responsible for …