Improving village life will keep villager home

Voluntary agencies will have to come up with ways to make the village peaceful and productive. Only a satisfying life in the village will prevent …

Developmental dilemmas

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The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Fielding politics

Commitment of a donor organisation to bring about a shift in the agrarian set-up should be matched by political machinations as well

How enabling is ICT?

In February, 100-odd people got together at the quaint little town of Baramati. All had a common goal: to exchange ideas on the use of …

Jairam Ramesh seeks to minimise budget cut for rural development

Gives details to finance ministry on the impact of revised budget estimates on individual schemes

DRDA faces axe

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

Govt's share of spending on nutrition, public health reduces in the last four years

Even the outstanding liabilities of states have been growing at double digits

Development dilemmas

Tamil catamarans go plastic

A new kind of fishing raft is replacing the traditional ones along the Madras coast

Standing up for water

Project pipedream

Shifty?

The World Bank's new strategy for India?

Timely, but incoherent

A travesty of justice

The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering

India, and not Bharat

Why the mainstream media prefers the former, and not the farmer

Monsoon 2023: What’s pushing demand for work under MGNREGS?

The rural employment scheme should be perceived from the lens of climate change adaptation measures, says expert

Investing in Africa’s rural youth can work wonders for continent: Report

Africa’s youth bulge and the fact that most of its people live in rural areas, make this especially important

The wise debate

As the world debates the effectiveness of industrialised agriculture, the good-old small farmer emerges victorious

Real or fictional, these women are heroines of all time

From the spirited Bathsheba to Mandakini Amte, from unrecognised midwives and unsung domestic labourers to fearless tribal activist Sumani Jogdi, …

Most poor people in Asia-Pacific region live in rural areas

Countries in the region have not been able to address rural poverty despite economic growth, says an IFAD report

A question of control

Karnataka's new panchayati raj law has sparked a debate, with the Congress government saying it gives the people more power and opposition …

Labourers become quarry managers

Women quarry-workers in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district have formed cooperatives and are managing the same granite quarries where they once …

'Orangi is not unique, I am'

Akhtar Hameed Khan is one of Asia's foremost social organisers. The Orangi Pilot Proiect, Karachi's outstanding slum development programme, …

Earnest endeavours

West Bengal's women panchayat members have become the torchbearers of rural development programmes in the state