NTPC dam rattles local elections

Officials subverted elections to the forest council that opposed dam, allege villagers

Punjab’s panchayat flip-flop

State considers reverting to direct polls, court raps it for taking away right to recall sarpanch

The North wants to exploit the biodiversity of the South

P Pushpangadan , director, National Botanical and Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow,speaks to Archana Srivastava on India's biodiversity

Rights issue resurfaces

Another panchayat's stand endorsed by Kerala HC

Doctors rush for village posting

Children's swaraj

Karnataka turns governance into child's play with kids' assemblies

Legacy of an empire

Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of …

Changing lives

A development project, which has got patronage from the panchayat, is changing the face of many villages in North Bengal

Managing water locally - a good model

In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with assistance from the Danish International Development Assistance,…

Panchayati bonanza

13th Finance Commission puts money in the hands of local governments

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People's show of strength

Outpouring of resentment against landfill site plan in Tamil Nadu leaves authorities stunned

Indian finance minister urges states to attract industry and market

Panchayats have to attract industry and market

Farming fish and mussels

When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam …

Recession is elsewhere

“It is a new model of development”

“Roles of village head are increasing”

“Basic service delivery has improved”

“Has space for women leadership”

“Panchayatiraj has opened the flood gate of democracy”

“Panchayatiraj ended people's isolation”

“The Supreme Court's Vedanta verdict is an irony”

Devolution meet a damp squib

Precious little achieved as states resist financial empowerment of panchayats