‘People’s movement needed for achieving open defecation-free India’

Minister lays emphasis on corporate contribution in achieving the target

Marvel at toilets

What rural facilities are prevalent in your state?

DTE’s analysis of data from the Union rural development ministry produces an interesting map of the Indian villages; follow the …

Flawed claims about NREGA implementation  

It is good to know that rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha felt MGNREGA implementation could be improved. But his assessments are far …

'State govts acquire land by subverting rights and bending the law’

The Centre for Science and Environment filed RTI queries to 28 states to understand how states are circumventing the land acquisition law. The …

Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India

Corporate India gets indirect subsidy equivalent to 60 per cent of government expenditure on rural areas

Panchayat civil servants, not yet

States want them, but not willing to spend on their salaries

Slow march to land reform

Expert committee report crawls only after a protest

Socio-economic caste census: only 4 states, UTs complete survey

Union rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, asks all states to sort out inconsistencies in preliminary data

Now farmland reservation

Rural development ministry suggests land reservation for agriculture

Centre's new draft rehabilitation policy half-baked

BPL: a difficult line to draw

Land Titling Bill: silent on rights of tribals and the poor

Land Titling Bill silent on settling rights of tribals and the poor

CAPART up for overhaul

Funding agency for rural NGOs may be on its last legs

Bail industry out

NREGA’s technological sabbatical

Job cards of many to expire in 2011 and renewal would take time

NREGS expansion

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MGNREGA scheme failed on many counts: report

In the last five years, the average person days of work generated per household under MGNREGS remained less than 50 across years

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Building dreams for homeless

Government promises land to the homeless in its draft Homestead Bill, but where’s the land?

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Land use policy for the country on anvil

Rural development ministry revives two-decade old plan to demarcate the country according to land use to avert conflicts

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

DRDA faces axe

District Rural Development Agency in conflict with Constitution; committee suggests its abolition