MGNREGS: Difficulty in finding work, delayed wages add to women workers’ woes
The employment scheme worked as a lifeline for rural Indian households during the COVID-19 pandemic
May Day: Strengthen NREGA to compensate for rural losses due to COVID-19
India is already paying a heavy price due to the government’s unpreparedness to deal with the health crisis. The Centre should pull up its …
Nuapada loved MGNREGA amid COVID-19 lockdown; what happened next?
Villagers who benefitted earlier shy away from jobs progamme as unpaid dues pile up since October 2020
How 3-pond systems helped villagers double yield, save lakhs
A system of three ponds to recycle grey water from the village has helped farmers and panchayats save lakhs of rupees
COVID-19: What about India’s migrant workers?
Rajasthan-based non-profit presented a charter of demands to union government demanding safety net for migrant workers
Small businesses provide most jobs in under developed, developing nations: ILO
Policy makers need to focus on informal sector and small economic units to address fundamental challenges of employment creation and improvement …
Political parties choose farm loan waiver for electoral gains, but at what cost?
Farmers have outstanding loan of Rs12.60 lakh crore, which translates to Rs 100,000 per cultivator
Poverty eradication - Why do we always fail?
The government plans to bring one crore households out of poverty by 2019. Such targets are announced each year, but why don’t they work?
A Mea Culpa budget
The budget is expected to have all the elements that will empower the government to say, ‘We are pro-poor’
Spare me my noodles
As the India-China standoff becomes more tense and anti-Chinese sentiment builds up in India, will ‘Chinese food’ be banned
How to fight water scarcity this monsoon
Though the monsoon is behaving erratically, drought-prone districts are still water rich
Amrit kaal for adivasis? Union Budget 2023-24 weakens safety nets for tribals
Schemes for food security, child welfare, employment guarantee for tribals saw shrinking of funds
Great farm pond chase
According to Union Budget 2017-18, Centre expects to see one million farm ponds being built by March 2017. If the government continues to chase …
Jharkhand’s success story of fruit plantation under MGNREGA
The state’s experience in horticulture orchards can serve as a model for the country
COVID-19: Centre’s relief package an eyewash for NREGA workers
The Rs 1.7 lakh crore package by the Centre has nothing for the 13 million NREGA workers
Standing Committee urges Centre to revise MGNREGS wages, budget
In most of the concerns raised, the committee found replies from the Centre unsatisfactory
COVID-19 lockdown meant no MGNREGA work for 39% job card holders
Over 2,000 households surveyed across four states; Massive expansion of work scheme needed to meet demand, finds study
MGNREGA could also help India sequester carbon: Study
MGNREGA may have helped capture a total carbon of 102 million tonnes equivalent in 2017-18 through plantations and soil quality improvement works,…
Accountability is oxygen to civic life : How India could have managed COVID-19 better
Lessons from Right to Information and other welfare laws could have led to more transparent and smooth relief plans
Will MGNREGA help again? Rs 1,387 crore pending in wages
Migrant workers are returning to their home states again as COVID-19 pandemic lashes out brutally at several urban centres
Water-stressed in India: In Thanjavur, an outlier in need of conservation measures
The district ranked third in terms of water-conservation works under Jal Shakti Abhiyan
It is not a drought
As they say, drought is a disaster one can see coming. Deficit monsoon creates situations for a drought. But it is not deficit monsoon, rather …
Budget 2017 Analysis with Sunita Narain
Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth analysed the 2017 Budget by Arun Jaitley. The major takeaway is that there is very little …
Prosperity and Beyond
A quarter of a century ago, a jeep driver decided it was time to make a change. Ralegan Siddhi, made into a model village by Anna Hazare, faces …
On shaky ground
450,000 people in and around Jharia town of Jharkhand are threatened by the fire raging underground, but there is no political will to implement …