Search on for a new model

Search on for a new model

Economy created by NREGA threatens a way of life

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

The fundamental shift

Return to the basics: create jobs in the hinterland

Losing shine

Falling profits discourage silk farmers

Identity crisis

Whether bamboo is a grass or a tree is a question of survival for many

Living off leaves

Sal leaf trade has enormous potential but suffers abject neglect

At which road head?

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

NREGA needs a paradigm shift

Movement for worse

The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives

A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Village Punukula's different

Managing yields without pesticides

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local-based prosperity

The verdict

Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast

The accused

Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats

Holistic approach

Civil society and all government agencies are responsible for sustainable development