In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

Price of food inflation

In near future the impact of high food price will show in terms of more malnourished

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

DRDA faces axe

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

Acquisition made easy

A toilet per second

Mobilisation immobilised

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

Economy of slippage

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

Walk the village talk

After raising the political profile of village councils, government wants to downsize them

Paying farmers for ecological services

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …

Losers again

Injustice gets nastier

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

A million opportunities lost

The ruling alliance’s flagship rural employment programme took unprecedented strides in creating water conservation structures across the …

The panchayat outrage

It was a vote for self-governance, not self-determination. No panchayat election in the country ever created as much hype as that of Jammu and …