Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Let states decide

Women and a nervous regime

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

Bihar in reverse gear

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

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

Agents of change

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

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order

The swing

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

Victim of its success

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

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves

The desperation of farmers

No transparency - Andhra Pradesh

Paying farmers for ecological services

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent

Six sins that make drought invincible

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

Environment Day: Green agenda for new government

Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister

Runup to Interim Budget 2024: The minimum NREGA budget for FY 2024-25 must be Rs 2.71 lakh crore

The government must recognise the significance of NREGA and ensure adequate budgets that allow the programme to function as intended

Centre has withheld Rs 7,500 crore in MGNREGA funds to West Bengal for a year, claims report

MGNREGA workers in Bengal not paid wages of Rs 2744 crore for a year, report by Libtech India found  

Underfunding, misleading claims: The story of MGNREGA in New India

Govt has made tall claims on NREGA implementation; but it is neither keen on providing dignified wages nor allocating adequate funds for the scheme

Cautionary tales

Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone

Creation of water harvesting structures: Will the Centre achieve the target?

The Centre has announced the construction of half a million dug wells and farm ponds to tackle drought

MGNREGA: Workers across 13 states protest to demand unpaid wages

Around Rs 2,800 crore are pending in wages from the Centre under MGNREGA for this financial year and around Rs 1,984 crore are pending from the …