No funds for rural project

The rural experiment

THE VILLAGE REPUBLIC VHS (PAL) . 50 min .Christopher Rego

Gujarat village project

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

Divisive move

Attempted panchayati raj reforms in Madhya Pradesh

It holds no water

Shoddy planning and poor execution mar many watershed revival projects

Troubled start

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

Dubious benefit

Widespread protests over Subarnarekha's revival

Only participatory technology is appropriate

Needed: institutions that deliver

Centre allots funds

Devolution is bankrupt

Now even the World Bank says money should flow to local bodies directly

Recall rights

Gram sabhas and bureaucrats slug it out in Maharashtra

Net effect

Govt's share of spending on nutrition, public health reduces in the last four years

Even the outstanding liabilities of states have been growing at double digits

Development dilemmas

Tamil catamarans go plastic

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

Standing up for water

Project pipedream

Shifty?

The World Bank's new strategy for India?

Timely, but incoherent

A travesty of justice

The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering

India, and not Bharat

Why the mainstream media prefers the former, and not the farmer

Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply

Women can save time to find avenues of additional income