Panchayat civil servants, not yet

States want them, but not willing to spend on their salaries

‘People’s movement needed for achieving open defecation-free India’

Minister lays emphasis on corporate contribution in achieving the target

Looking forward to the past

Portrait of a village indifferent to the urge to move with the times

The four pillars of panchayati raj

Rustic dealings

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New guidelines for rural roads

Bank on people

What a new minimum livelihood programme must do, at the least

Federalism or local self-rule?

It's a great shame for India's democracy that we have to choose between the two

Another ornamental scheme

The proposed National Rural Employment Guarantee Act threatens to become just that

When participation holds sway

Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village

No elections, no funds

Taken for granted

Power of knowledge

Check this out

It's called outreach

Indian science is in Space, but not its villages

Ambitious

Marvel at toilets

Fresh BPL survey

Orissa to expand its list of poor

INDIA

Not just green fields

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Power to the people

Connecting those who matter

WiMAX technology can provide rural India with internet

Draughty bill

Rural employment bill draws flak for diluting draft

Rural roads connectivity in India to get a fillip

Should NABARD regulate micro-finance?