‘Rethink economics of poverty’

Want poor families in north India to immunise their children? Offer the parents a small bag of lentils as an incentive and vaccination rates make …

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Pick and choose

RTI rap for two officers

Rs 10,000 salary cut for delay in giving information  

Search on for a new model

Search on for a new model

Let states decide

Women and a nervous regime

Emboldened by SHG movement, reservation in panchayats, women emerge as key constituency

NREGA’s technological sabbatical

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

How women seized NREGA

Bihar in reverse gear

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

Reading between poverty lines

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

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand

How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore

The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

Giant snail invasion

People in Kerala village spend nights battling large snails that devour plants and nibble at walls  

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

The swing

More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

Victim of its success

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

Lost and found

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

The poverty quibble

Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators—health, malnutrition and wages—continue to be grim. So how …