Panchayat elections are set to become all the more important

These village-level governments have all the ingredients to make or break a political party’s fortune

Ground report: 50% reservation in Panchayat a starting point for Haryana women

Proxy candidature, minimum educational qualifications still holding back candidates at grassroots level

Mewat Makeover: Will Haryana’s election laws be a catalyst for female education

For the first time in Haryana, 50 per cent reservation has been given to women in Panchayat elections

No school can be without a playground: Supreme Court

SC gives a year’s time to encroachers to vacate Gram Panchayat land meant for school

Simply Put: Steel farmers in Dhinkia

Resource wise: This panchayat head in Tamil Nadu uses tech to curtail water and power wastage

K Kanchana Kannaperumal installed sensors in eight villages of her panchayat; the move has benefitted 750-odd households

75 years of people’s power: How this Haryana Gram Panchayat managed its grey water through ponds

The pond-based system treats wastewater by combining three different biological processes — anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic — and using …

CSE-trained professionals prepare India’s first rural water and sanitation safety plan

The Brahamandiha water and sanitation safety plan was launched on March 15, 2021 for the Brahmandiha Gram Panchayat of Bankura …

Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Local governance ignored as Gram Panchayats await restructuring

Panchayat-level activities, planning and development are at a standstill for months 

Panchayati Raj Day: Pandemic and the panchayats

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says: ‘We need to learn more from how villages manage COVID-19 pandemic than from cities’  

MGNREGA is failing: 10 reasons why

The government is relying heavily on the MGNREGA MIS to show that all is well, while it should actually review its MIS system itself …

Gandhian Sanitation: Ariyanendal’s streets flooded regularly with grey water; here is how they got cleaned

The Tamil Nadu village used MGNREGA and Panchayat funds to build individual and community soak pits

How Nagri, a modern nagar panchayat in Chhattisgarh, fought for its traditional forest boundary

With a diverse and educated population than its neighbours, Nagri had to put up the toughest fight

How one Gram Panchayat in Himachal built a waste-free, water-surplus village

Pappla village constructed water-harvesting structures, soak pits and a plastic waste processing plant to transform itself

Evaluating collaborative governance in Panchayat plantation programme in Odisha

Even after more than a year, the survival rate of seedlings in GPs is merely less than 1%

Dhinkia on the boil: Opposition, rights workers stopped by cops

The police had baton-charged farmers in Dhinkia January 14, who were protesting the forced acquisition of their betel vineyards

8 years and Rs 228 crore later, Maharashtra fails to make even one village sustainable

The state’s scheme, aimed at creating environmentally sustainable villages, saw only up to 6% funds being used for green projects

Community forest rights at work: Chhattisgarh’s Chargaon reaps benefits in first year itself

Gram Sabhas, Community Forest Management Committee, non-profits join hands to streamline processes in Chargaon Naya Basti

A tale of 2 villages: How Dhinkia & Nuagaon have fared different between 2 steel projects

As the Odisha government speeds up acquiring land near Paradip for Jindal Steel, DTE visits two villages that had chosen different paths 20 …

Fighting malnutrition, 4 meals a day: Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon shows the way

Anganwadi workers cook meals and personally deliver them to homes across 3 blocks of Rajnandgaon district 

Chronic kidney disease cases rise in Cuttack district

A GASS survey highlights the plight of those suffering from chronic kidney disease in Narasingpur block of Odisha’s Cuttack and how …

Mewat Makeover: Female education now a prerequisite for marriage in Nuh

While parents are teaching their daughters to contest panchayat elections in Mewat, they are also looking for educated daughters-in-law

Odisha Panchayat polls: Caught in a web of debt, exploitative labour only option for migrant villagers

Panchayat elections have little significance for migrant villagvers who won't be casting their votes

Odisha’s Ganjam district is now free of child marriages

Ganjam, known to be severely affected by child marriages, is Odisha’s first district to be declared child marriage free

Odisha JSW Steel plant controversy: Arrests, police crackdown raises the heat in Dhinkia

Protestors allege nexus between Odisha Police and JSW officials