Works unwell

Employment guarantee scheme workers in Rajasthan do not get their dues

Centre in a fix over court ruling on minimum wage to NREGS workers

Workers in other states could take cue from Karnataka

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Narayan Hareka (Orissa)

Machines, not men, employed

Farmers rally for jobs

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Lalit Mehta (Jharkhand)

Strings attached

Centre's purpose of reserving 50 per cent seats for women in panchayat elections defeated by puppet candidates

Rs 1 crore due to NREGS workers in UP

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

NREGS expansion

Dash for cash

Government unprepared but goes ahead with direct cash transfer

24 deaths in 2 months

Movement for worse

The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives

Farmers resolute on not sharing Hirakud waters

DRDA faces axe

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

Bull to bull's eye

Faulty policy causes Maharashtra's farmlands to go dry

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

Relocation by half measure

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Maharashtra to divert employment guarantee fund

Farming made unprofitable

Made it

Enabavi, a village of 52 families, is abuzz. It is hosting farmers from the nearby Kallem village who have come here for tips on profitable …