Farmers have decreased, farm labourers increased: census report

Only 54.6 per cent of total workers in India are now part of the agriculture sector

Our smaller future

Is the rural economy driving India’s recovery?

Government spending has led to demand growth in rural areas; but what if it comes down?

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

Gujarat v UPA: models of non-governance?

Bihar in reverse gear

State plans to bring down its minimum wage rate to that under MGNREGA

Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates

Economy created by NREGA threatens a way of life

Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Hot Frames

Life in Jharia, Jharkhand where a 90-year-old underground coal fire threatens a whole town

UPA's development report card

A look at the progress of the Congress-led alliance's flagship programmes

Environmentally unsound

Union budget 2002-03: all the right noises, all the wrong measures

An extremely do-able job

Centre cuts foodgrain supply for Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana

Workers in unorganised sector lack social security

Mining accounts for more labour deaths

NREGS expansion

The pursuit of green-collar jobs

Reading between poverty lines

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

Lost and found

Karnataka villages are reviving underground springs that were once their lifeline in summers

MGNREGA funds scam in Bihar could have been prevented

Initiative to make wage payment to workers transparent was stalled by officialdom

Saline solution: How MGNREGA helped Nagapattinam recover from the 2004 tsunami

Two villages in the Tamil Nadu district fought soil salinity through MGNREGA

More than half of world’s poor out of safety net coverage, says World Bank

Poverty is urbanising at a rapid pace, it says

Will the budget create a bang?

The 2015-16 Union budget will declare Modi government's development agenda