Restore malgujari tanks to irrigate eastern Vidarbha: study

Irrigation potential of 125,000 ha unused since 1950

Centre launches MGNREGA 2.0

30 new types of work added to the rural job guarantee scheme list to restore demand for work under UPA's flagship welfare programme

Pitfalls of a uniform food regime

In face of drought and rising food prices, attention shifts to local diet and food diversity

Interview: Popatrao Pawar, sarpanch, Hivre Bazar

Digging shallow

Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry

Survey hints at what we can expect from Union Budget 2015-16

Another poll sop: MGNREGS wage to be hiked from April 1

Move was preceded by series of initiatives to woo rural voters; these include money to construct toilets and insurance benefits

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Centre launches awareness campaign for MGNREGA

'Kaam Mango Abhiyan' aims to popularise the ambitious flagship programme of the UPA government

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Liberal politics of Economic Survey 2011-12

The Economic Survey 2011-12 showcases the dividends of economic liberalisation started by the ruling party. But admits: growth is not possible …

Maharashtra to divert employment guarantee fund

Perhaps yes, minister

Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry

Infant deaths continue in Attappady

As advisor to prime minister visits the tribal block panchayat, activists demand special care for pregnant adivasi women

World Toilet Day: India now aims to build one toilet every two seconds

The country needs to play a major role in reducing open defecation

Garbage to energy plans

It is not about farmers

Budget 2013 pushed up allocations for agriculture, but it will not help farmers

Centre launches bio-toilets to curb open defecation

Around 100,000 toilets to be built in next two years in 300 gram panchayats

Crafty accounting

The budget projects a pro-poor image, while covertly playing to the market

UPA announces poll sop for tribals

Centre promises 150 days of work to tribal households under MGNREGA

Costly largesse

US unveils safety net for its farmers, shackling global free trade and posing a threat to environment

Stink over missing toilets: ministry initiates probe

CAG audit may be sought if states fail to disclose correct information, says secretary for drinking water and sanitation

Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions

Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state

CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in rural job scheme implementation

Only 35 per cent beneficiaries got jobs; half of civil work undertaken left incomplete