Project without a plan

After two budgets and Rs 5,300 crore in funding, the Centre's micro irrigation project that promises water to every farmland is not even close to …

Into the abyss?

The situation of India's farmers has only become grimmer in the past decade, according to the latest National Sample Survey Office report

Jairam Ramesh proposes making rural job scheme less labour-intensive

Revised MGNREGS guidelines to be finalised end of this week

MGNREGS won't subsidise rural toilets, says Gadkari

New study shows the small improvement achieved in sanitation between 2001 and 2011 not enough to improve health outcomes

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

Surviving on fish from gutter, rice: West Bengal workers bear brunt of Central freeze on MGNREGA funds

DTE ground report finds pending wages and non-commissioning of work for over a year making it hard for workers to survive

Ahead of Budget, activists demand allocation of Rs 2.72 lakh crore for MGNREGS in 2023-24

Considered inflation, pending worker wages and high demand, say NREGA Sangharsh Mocha and People’s Action for Employment Guarantee

UPA announces poll sop for tribals

Centre promises 150 days of work to tribal households under MGNREGA

COVID-19 rural crisis: Why MGNREGA needs a harder push

MGNREGA workers across the country on June 29 staged peaceful demonstration, raised demands for higher benefits and wages

How MGNREGA helps revive village infra, increase employment in Haryana

Villagers gain employment through the job guarantee scheme, used as a means to revive rural infrastructure like reservoirs, cattle sheds

Heading towards a cliff

As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor

Centre’s decision on schemes reflects its conservative approach to economic revival

It will also impact the vulnerable who are already bearing the brunt of COVID-19 and the countrywide lockdown, they said

Can MGNREGA cushion the COVID-19 lockdown blow for Moradabad’s returning villagers

There is a sharp rise in demand for work under MGNREGA in Moradabad and other districts of the state

Odisha’s big challenge: Meeting MGNREGS target of 200 million person days

Although the state govt picked up pace compared to recent years, there are reports of slowdown in work being done

CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in rural job scheme implementation

Only 35 per cent beneficiaries got jobs; half of civil work undertaken left incomplete

Make India drought-proof

‘Restore land to tribals; allow them to be self-reliant’

K K Usha Raju took charge as president of Attappady block in Kerala seven months ago. She is 31 years old and belongs to Muduga tribal community. …

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Last ditch attempt

UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections

Funds for social welfare cut drastically in revised budget estimates

Ministers write protest letters to prime minister and finance minister, saying it would greatly impact ongoing schemes

Nothing to bank on

The government’s much-hyped Direct Benefit Transfer programme has hit a roadblock. Banks have failed to meet the huge demand for opening …

Rice at risk

Growing paddy is not viable for small farmers of Kerala. Will the state be able to preserve the crop which delivers a number of ecological …

Supreme Court order triggers NREGS wage debate

How much should workers under rural employment scheme be paid if minimum wage fixed by a state is more than that of the Centre?

Cash transfers do not benefit

Jitendra visited three districts in Rajasthan to meet people who are supposed beneficiaries of UPA government’s much-touted Direct Benefit …

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and …