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