Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget

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

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. …

The poorest shun MGNREGA

Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years

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 …

Beware of Policymakers

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The Bharat Nirman outpour

Rs 174,000 crore sanctioned for new scheme to build rural infrastructure

Karnataka legislature amends state Panchayati Raj Act

Wavering

New priorities

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

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

North-East

Assam-type solution

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 - …

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

Rajasthan mine workers form cooperatives

A million opportunities lost

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

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 …

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

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

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

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