Mandatory digital attendance for MGNREGS will destroy it, activists warn
Lack of access to technology will discourage workers, drive them to work for cheaper wages outside of scheme
Budget 2020-21: Will MGNREGA become an overarching rural development scheme
The upcoming budget will see many schemes being brought under the rural employment prtogramme; a direct cash transfer may be declared to top this up
Implement ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ by July 31: Supreme Court
It also asked states to bring in an appropriate scheme for distribution of dry ration to migrant labourers till COVID-19 pandemic lasts &…
Flour surplus: Ponds transformed farming in villages of Jharkhand's Pakur
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act helped flood-hit Jhenagaria build back stronger
45% of migrants will stay back in Uttarakhand, says CM Rawat
Down To Earth speaks to Uttarkhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat about his government’s efforts to keep residents from migrating
Civil society rejects recommendation of Nagesh Singh committee on MGNREGS
Activists say that the committee was set up to invalidate the recommendation of previous committee on wages under the employment gaurantee scheme
In Parliament on December 16, 2016
A round up of environment- and development-related discussions in the parliament today
Going backward
As the Maratha community in Maharashtra finally gets 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education, Down To Earth profiles other …
MGNREGS: ‘Monument of failure’ or ‘saviour’?
On the 10th anniversary of the rural job guarantee scheme, Down To Earth evaluates its successes and drawbacks
Making sense of `Make in India'
Manufacturing needs to get a boost. But what to manufacture and how are two critical questions
A tale of two villages beguiled by JRY
The panchayats of Sonrai in Uttar Pradesh and Palana in Rajasthan share a Jawahar Rozgar Yojana experience. Both ignored the water needs of the …
Rapped for inaction
SC takes governments to task over tardiness in executing food-based employment schemes following starvation deaths in Rajasthan
Increased funding for bamboo project
China's stupendous success in exploiting bamboo for economic gains appears to have prompted India to follow suit. The heightened interest in this …
Low-paid, young women: The grim truth about who this recession is hitting hardest
While total monthly hours worked by men fell by 7.7% between March and May, total monthly hours worked by women fell 12%
Scheme against jobs
Government is bent upon shrinking jobs for the poor by fundamentally changing the rural employment guarantee scheme against the advice of its …
Threadbare clothes, school drop outs due to lack of uniforms: West Bengal MGNREGA workers’ lives in tatters
Central government’s freeze on funds for rural employment scheme has completely degraded villagers’ living conditions
Fourth industrial revolution: ‘4IR critical for India’
India has a well thought out ecosystem of data and a young population that can be skilled for the new technologies
Unpaid for months, MGNREGA workers protest in national capital
3-day demonstation by workers from across the country; Demand for more funds allocation to employment programme
COVID-19 response: Inclusion of women must for more resilient post-pandemic India
Policy responses should also aim to build women’s ability to cope with future shocks
Drought, but why: Several districts in peril every year
Despite 40 years of efforts and huge resource allocation, drought continues to hit the same districts over and again
Resetting the Africa-Europe Relationship
Africa faces a broad range of development challenges and overcoming them will require huge sums of foreign aid and investment. But as Africa …
Manual scavenging prohibition Bill: how effective?
Activists say provisions for rehabilitation in the Bill are vague, and will only work to perpetuate existing problems
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