Kerala panchayat wins face-off with Coke

Two recent directives of the Kerala High Court have further vindicated the Perumatty Grama Panchayat's stand in its face-off with the Hindustan …

Embrace of an unforgettable conservation crusade lingers on

Impacts of Chipko are still visible in the state after four decades.

The development laboratory

Where civil society, says SUNITA NARAIN, could learn a decentralisation lesson or two

Why liquidate our future?

Cabinet nod to joint parliamentary committee recommendations

Access to justice curbed

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

Food for taught

Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?

A village that took on miners

New sand mining guidelines call for robust monitoring and sustainable development

The guidelines try to create a balance between preserving ecologically sensitive river habitats and the need for infrastructure

Spring in a box

A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water

Blood, sweat and tears

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

Civil society & politics

Water wars

Panchayat fights to retain what is left of Saligao's groundwater

Panchayats to get poverty alleviation funds

GM field trials now need panchayat nod

Dow ransacked

The curious case of panchayats in Delhi

The Nagar Swaraj Bill will usher in decentralised governance in the city state, but what happened to rural panchayats?

People’s manifesto

Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged