India’s declining rural income pulls downs global economic growth: IMF

International Monetary Fund says downgrade of global economy due to India’s dipping growth rates

Devolution meet a damp squib

Precious little achieved as states resist financial empowerment of panchayats

Hope or hype?

CMP: thrust correct, implementation a challenge

बजट 2020-21: मनरेगा में शामिल हो जाएंगी कई ग्रामीण विकास योजनाएं?

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Let states decide

Toothless at 10

A decade after their inception, Panchayati Raj bodies are yet to be granted adequate powers

पंचायती राज दिवस: कोरोना महामारी और हमारी पंचायतें

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How women seized NREGA

A Mea Culpa budget

The budget is expected to have all the elements that will empower the government to say, ‘We are pro-poor’

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget

The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity

Political economy of welfare

The BJP-led government's change of heart for big-ticket rural programmes says a lot about its dwindling political fortune

A million opportunities lost

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

Budget holds much-needed rural reform

Proposes to redefine backward region

Victim of its success

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

Land use policy for the country on anvil

Rural development ministry revives two-decade old plan to demarcate the country according to land use to avert conflicts

Born at 44

Odisha village gets pattas after nearly half a century. Land reform programmes get jumpstart

Mobilisation immobilised

Centre launches MGNREGA 2.0

30 new types of work added to the rural job guarantee scheme list to restore demand for work under UPA's flagship welfare programme

Pitfalls of a uniform food regime

In face of drought and rising food prices, attention shifts to local diet and food diversity

Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry

Survey hints at what we can expect from Union Budget 2015-16

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme