How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore
The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …
The poorest shun MGNREGA
Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years
Australia divided over carbon trading
24 deaths in 2 months
Jobs Jobs Jobs
The government is obsessed with economic growth. Employment is bound to follow, it claims. That's a delusion. The swelling numbers of unemployed …
How historical methods helped landless farmers earn a living
Farmers revive traditional retention ponds that drain water during floods and retain moisture in droughts
Water-stressed in India: Curious case of 2 neighbouring Telangana districts
The contrast in the districts’ JSA rankings was due to proper implementation of schemes
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मोदी सरकार के सामने चुनौती होगी कि वह किसानों को फसल का उचित दाम दिलाए और ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में रोजगार के पर्याप्त इंतजाम करने ...
Irrigation sector gets boost in Union Budget
Apart from generous budgetary allocation, the government will utilise MGNREGS to increase the water harvesting potential of drought-affected …
Political economy of welfare
The BJP-led government's change of heart for big-ticket rural programmes says a lot about its dwindling political fortune
Rivulet resurrected in 45 days
Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh
Giant snail invasion
People in Kerala village spend nights battling large snails that devour plants and nibble at walls
Deforestation rampant in Malawi as residents chop forests to produce charcoal for fuel
Charcoal trade has emerged as a viable means of livelihood for the power-starved villagers
MGNREGS workers in Kerala to get pension
State and Centre to contribute Rs 1,000 each per head
Elusive hunt for skills and jobs
Budget outlays will not do much for job creation or readying youth for skilled work
Jairam Ramesh releases NREGS funds to Uttar Pradesh with conditions attached
Move coincides with Rahul Gandhi's public relations campaign in poll-bound state
Afforestation wages in cash
Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order
Give small players in food retail a new deal
Movement for worse
The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives
The poor? They are the government's problem
Agents of change
Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving
The swing
More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas
Twice Unlucky
In 1962, it was the Indo-Chinese war. Now it is the creation of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Once again, the Bhotiyas, who inhabit the …
Barring the muck
The Tihar jail exemplifies how efficient waste management not only makes our surroundings clean, but also endows us with economic benefits. What …
Tragopan country