Down the drain

The recently launched food for work programme may not ensure local food security

Autumn of a patriarch

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, famous social reformer, turns 80

Troubled start

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

Dubious benefit

Widespread protests over Subarnarekha's revival

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

Only participatory technology is appropriate

Needed: institutions that deliver

Developmental dilemmas

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN POOR COUNTRIES - NEGLECTED ISSUES Edited by Kartik C Roy and Cal Clark Oxford University Press Rs 290

Centre allots funds

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 …

Recall rights

Gram sabhas and bureaucrats slug it out in Maharashtra

Net effect

Development dilemmas

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 …

Tamil catamarans go plastic

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

'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, …

Standing up for water

Website review: http://www.tarahaat.com

If you are a Net-savvy villager in north India, Tarahaat.com could easily become your favourite haunt on the Web. For starters, the website …

Project pipedream

Shifty?

The World Bank's new strategy for India?

Timely, but incoherent

Centre eases rules for accessing watershed programme funds

States that are currently facing severe drought are the ones who have spent the least on soil conservation and water conservation

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 …

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