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

Are Goa's village panchayats following high court orders on garbage disposal? State pollution board to enquire

Panchayats may face contempt proceedings

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

INEVITABLE TRAGEDY

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …

Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

Out of form

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Democracy under surveillance

West Bengal bureaucrats to monitor panchayat institutions, implement their decisions  

Bridging the gap

Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has …

Legislation for a few

Benefits of the Act that encourages conservation of plants reach few farmers

Granite greed

Frenzied quarrying destroys livelihoods and environment in Karimnagar

Include public, fight Naxalites

Planning Commission wants to improve Integrated Action Plan

Raghuvansh Prasad, minister for rural development, on NREGA

Public hearing for Bhushan steel plant ends in fracas

Company did not consult village council or obtain its consent as mandated by law for scheduled areas, complain residents

Nobody's waste

Kerala's capital wants a solid waste treatment plant in a nearby village. This has created a rural-urban conflict

Jharkhand

Most politicians and activists see the Forest Conservation Act as a hurdle towards empowering the tribal population. They want the act amended

Uttaranchal

The process of alienating people from natural resources has not stopped, even with the attainment of statehood

Chattisgarh

Fighting the drought preoccupies the new government. Charting a mining policy to explore the rich mineral deposits is next on the agenda

Chipping away

Time was, when the Saranda forest cover was so dense that even the sun's rays couldn't penetrate it. Ironically, denudation has driven the region …

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

GRECL gets nod for project

Gujarat faces forced land aquisition in name of industrialisation

Packaged water @ 10 paise/litre

Villagers veto sale of grazing land to Mundra SEZ

Poor little rich states

Rich in natural resources but extremely poor, the three new states are in need of a new strategy for development. But no blueprints have been …