Bihar slashes spending on education and social welfare

Coal-based power receives a major boost in the state budget presented on March 12

NDA introduces changes in MGNREGA

Rural development ministry to make social audit compulsory; create more durable assets in blocks and districts, instead of villages

Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…

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

Some nets and sunshine

Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats

Innovative administrator

IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people

Rural women have resilience to cope with climate risks: study

Women use creative ways to manage food and nutrition security in their households in lean months, shows an ongoing study in Faizabad, Uttar …

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

Shock treatment

Nightmarish laws and an insensitive government keeps thousands in the dark

Global grid

Whether it is Asia or Europe, countries find a new mantra: decentralise and electrify

Micropowerful

A microhydel project a day. Communities snatch the initiative from the government to electrify rural Nepal

Panchayat Raj Half a cheer for democracy

There is a great push to make panchayats the fulcrum of rural development in India. But 16 years after the third tier of government was created, …

With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

Impotent plan?

In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). The latest avatar of state-financed employment …

Can rural Uttarakhand retain its COVID-19 returnees

Deserted villages are springing back to life as residents return due to lockdown. The state government has announced several schemes to retain …

Whose budget is it, Mr Jaitley?

Being the first full year budget of the National Democratic Alliance government, there was expectation that the finance minister's announcements …

UTTARKASHI

Houses that hold on

She walks in oblivion

Society itself doesn't care to know about headloading

Scheme against jobs

Government is bent upon shrinking jobs for the poor by fundamentally changing the rural employment guarantee scheme against the advice of its …