Rural unemployment in central India: Why Adivasi communities are worst-hit

The focus of MGNREGA has to be re-shifted to employment generation from asset building

75 years of people’s power: How Yerlapady in Karnataka sourced funds to manage grey water

The village made efficient use of MGNREGS funds to construct soak pits

Union Budget 2020-21: An expert’s guide to rural distress

Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis

Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions

Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state

A monumental waste: Crores spent on water-related works haven’t readied Jharkhand for droughts; here’s why

Poor planning of water conservation and water harvesting structures is a major reason

MGNREGS falls short of funds again despite increased allocation in rural sector

Pending liabilities in the scheme means that workers’ wages are unpaid

Other side of the fence

Conservation hits close home for forest officer

Lack of budget, high demand slow MGNREGS

Deletions keep millions jobless despite the scheme seeing highest demand in a decade

MGNREGA: Less than a million people got 100 days of work in first 7 months of this financial year

Least number of people got 100 days of work under MGNREGA in 5 years

Economic Survey recommends using MGNREGA to revive water bodies

Revival will lead to an increase in the net irrigation potential

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

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?

UPA's development report card

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

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

As told to Parliament (March 19, 2021): No special plan for children under 15 impacted by pandemic

All that was discussed in the House through the day

COVID-19: Bihar profiles returned migrant workers for skills

The industry department has profiled skills of more than 80,000 migrant workers so far

Bihar lowers wage under MGNREGA

State blames poor financial condition for the move

As told to Parliament (February 10, 2021): Some 37,439 villages in India without 3G/4G coverage

All that was discussed in the House through the day

As told to Parliament (September 18, 2020): 10,281 Indian farmers died by suicide in 2019

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Drought but why

It is time we understood that since drought is human-made it can be reversed