Wavering
New priorities
Maintenance boards made mandatory along rural roads built with central funds
Rural development ministry says installing boards along roads built under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana will help communities monitor …
The poorest shun MGNREGA
Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years
Beware of Policymakers
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How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore
The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …
MGNREGS workers in Kerala to get pension
State and Centre to contribute Rs 1,000 each per head
Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure
Green transportation gets lip service
Agents of change
Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving
North-East
Assam-type solution
Rajasthan mine workers form cooperatives
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
Kangra safe corners
The Himalaya is the youngest range of mountains in the world are immensely prone to earthquakes. The entire range falls in seismic zone 5 and 4 - …
A million opportunities lost
The ruling alliance’s flagship rural employment programme took unprecedented strides in creating water conservation structures across the …
Big hikes in rural spending
Funds for MGNREGA maintained at Rs.33,000 crore, same as in 2012-13
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
Soak pit revolution: two villages in Mewat treat their own wastewater
The treated water recharges aquifers
Restore malgujari tanks to irrigate eastern Vidarbha: study
Irrigation potential of 125,000 ha unused since 1950
BPL's dividing line
Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line
Can COVID-19 pandemic help India foster rural livelihoods and build resilient villages?
The shift of balance created by COVID-19 has revealed that urban centres, while important, need not be the sole creator of jobs or economic …
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
Water turns the tide
A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006
Mobilisation immobilised