Caste discrimination at work place, says ILO report

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

Pick and choose

Let states decide

How women seized NREGA

How NREGA helped Panihari village

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

Rajasthan tackles drought through pokhars

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

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 …

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves

The desperation of farmers

Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

Bank at your doorstep

Technology is helping public sector banks find customers in rural India. This is part of the Centre’s efforts to include villages in the …

Paying farmers for ecological services

Central India in grip of worst-ever drought

Half-way to autonomy

Decisions by Maharashtra’s top forest official can empower gram sabhas prepare plans to revive their forests, but a policy is awaited