Change must be championed

The right right

Getting more with less

System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite …

The god of ecological things

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

One more goes down

Can we afford not to change?

How smart is a smart city?

Come out and claim the road

Operation cover-up

Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…

Afforestation interrupted

Environment ministry fails to use funds for afforestation, monitor forest diversions: Comptroller and Auditor General

Tensions that continue

While launching this newsmagazine, our founder-editor Anil Agarwal had said that in the years ahead, India will have to seize every possible …

Biometric identification attracts major opposition

Demand grows for scrapping the biometric identification system  

Food security is not charity

Give the poor a say in planning and executing drought relief works

Sense of self

Biometry’s colonial roots  

Devolve further

Less populous and more homogenous, wards serve Panchayati Raj better

Changing mobility patterns, rising chronic diseases

How do we make mobility planning “Healthier”? What does Delhi teach us?

Green salute

Scientists at Maida's polytechnic college are r6versing the trend of rural upliftment through urban-basgd planning

Snatching someone's baby

Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has …

Let states decide

Government's U turn on poverty line

The statistician who "planned" India

P C Mahalanobis can rightly be called the father of Indian statistics. Today, in the year of his birth centenary, he is remembered not only as …

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Urban villages - an oxymoron?

Urbanisation in developing countries is marked by large increases in population and has consequences such as sprawl. As a physical phenomenon, …