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

Civil society seconds rural development ministry’s demand for MGNREGA funds

The rural development ministry had recently demanded an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to maintain the momentum of MGNREGA