Showering love on farmers

Structural pitfalls of MGNREGA

It’s time to remove inherent flaws of the guaranteed wage programme MGNREGA that limit its poverty alleviation potential

The story of 114 Odisha villages becoming child-marriage free begins with a small victory in Rugudipali

The villagers have also created an enabling environment for adolescents so that they can continue their education

The others too

The MeToo campaign comes at a time when women are being courted for electoral gains. Is it good or bad?

Impact of MGNREGS: household income on rise, so is agricultural productivity  

In the last one decade, it has also helped increase groundwater table by virtue of implementing a range of water conservation measures

Sukhomajri's failing development model

A model Haryana village, which had pulled itself out of poverty by managing natural resources, shuns the very model of development

National parks are luxury in Third World

KRISHNA B Ghimire, who is a project coordinator with the UN Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, has done extensive research on …

The saga of the big brother in a little village

FROM POVERTY TO PLENTY: THE STORY OF RALEGAN SIDDHI Ganesh and Vasudha Pangare Publisher: INTACH, New Delhi Price: Rs 85

Artisans the untold story

Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …

"Culmination of the IT revolution"

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, is the man behind the wireless local loop technology cor dect and the …

Book review: Making amends?

"Demanding Accountability: Civil-Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel" Edited by Dana Clark, Jonathan Fox and Kay Treakle Rainbow …

We want to ensure an NGO in every village

Anna Hazare's name is synonymous with rural development and people's power. Hazare had once again hit the headlines in May by undertaking a fast …

Will rural flagship schemes change under Modi?

Officials admit that MGNREGS and rural road development programmes suffered shortcomings in UPA regime

Raghuvansh Prasad, minister for rural development, on NREGA

Promoting integrated village planning

Self-sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.

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Maharashtra's decentralisation plan gets derailed even before it can take off

E-CONNECTING VILLAGES

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme put on hold

Employment guarantee scheme brought to an abrupt halt

Containing a virus

‘5G will better connect rural areas’

India plans to begin 5G trials by 2020, but experts and industry stand at odds over its impact on human health and environment. The fifth …

'State govts acquire land by subverting rights and bending the law’

The Centre for Science and Environment filed RTI queries to 28 states to understand how states are circumventing the land acquisition law. The …

Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India

Corporate India gets indirect subsidy equivalent to 60 per cent of government expenditure on rural areas

Ministries in Africa commit to integrate land governance concerns in agriculture

Most of the African ministries of lands have been working on land reforms, but in isolation from the agricultural sector

Report places rural transformation at the heart of economic development

IFAD report bats for emphasis on agriculture and employment to reduce rural poverty