How MGNREGA is promoting climate-smart villages

The works include constructing percolation tanks, households living in the catchment area for construction of check dams, afforestation, contour&…

Parched no more: MGNREGA enables multi-cropping in Bundelkhand’s Himmatpura

A check dam has allowed a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jalaun district to grow crops in two cycles

Secure from drought: How MGNREGA changed lives in Bandlapalli

The village from where the scheme was launched in India, has remained untouched by drought in a water-scarce region

Tasar rearing may bail out 600 mining-affected families in Keonjhar

The Rs 23.75-crore project in the state’s Keonjhar district will be implemented using DMF and MGNREGS funds

Developing issues

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At which road head?

Not the path of economic growth, but the trail leading back to the village is the answer

Critiquing globalisation

In Churning the Earth, The Making of Global India, environmentalist Ashish Kothari and economist Aseem Shrivastava put India's much-hyped growth …

As told to Parliament (February 10, 2021): Some 37,439 villages in India without 3G/4G coverage

All that was discussed in the House through the day

As told to Parliament (September 18, 2020): 10,281 Indian farmers died by suicide in 2019

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Drought but why

It is time we understood that since drought is human-made it can be reversed

Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget

The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity

Australia divided over carbon trading

24 deaths in 2 months

A quick fix: How ponds built under MGNREGA turned lives around

The realisation that ponds can rapidly recharge groundwater has increased demand for MGNREGA

COVID-19: UP stares at mammoth challenge as migrants return home

More than 1.2 million migrants returned to Uttar Pradesh since the nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25, according to state official

Drought forever

Severe drought strikes India every eight to nine years and is a major reason for perpetuating poverty

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

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 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. …

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

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

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

The swing

More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas