Defining environment stories

In the Western approach to stories on the environment, topics are wrapped in neat packages: from rainforests to big dams. But writing on rural …

Budget 2023-24: Fund allocated for MGNREGA can provide just 17 days of work

Unjust allocation by the Modi-led government is an assault on the rights of rural workers, say activists

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Not just green fields

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Power to the people

Connecting those who matter

WiMAX technology can provide rural India with internet

What rural facilities are prevalent in your state?

DTE’s analysis of data from the Union rural development ministry produces an interesting map of the Indian villages; follow the …

Flawed claims about NREGA implementation  

It is good to know that rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha felt MGNREGA implementation could be improved. But his assessments are far …

Sick(le) charade

The NDA government's new and revised schemes to augment rural development are yet to show any results

Union Budget 2017-18 in figures

While agriculture saw 5.9 per cent increase in budget allocation, rural development and health sector witnessed 11.8 per cent and 22.6 per cent …

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Move to nationalise NGOs

The Planning Commission's efforts to network voluntary agencies has received a lot of flak from the non-government sector.

Biomass ammassed

FOREST RESOURCES AND WOOD-BASED BIOMASS ENERGY AS RURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSETS Edited by William R Bentley & Marcia M Gowen Winrock International …

Might of the right

Under public pressure, the Rajasthan government has formed a committee to examine the implications of the people's demand for the right to information

The battle of Beawar

Rajasthan villagers embark on an unprecedented indefinite agitation for their right to information on the state's developmental projects

Drop by drop

FROM INDIFFERENCE TO ACTIVE PARTICIPATION: SIX CASE STUDIES OF NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOCIAL ORGANISATION·Frances Sinha and …

The answers within

Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India's rural communities

Reversing roles

STUDIES IN RURAL PARTICIPATION — 3 — PARTICIPATORY APPRAISAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES·Neela Mukherjee· Concept Publishing Co,…

What rural folk need is motivation

V B SALUNKE, a 58-year-old social worker, abandoned his engineering firm in 1972 to mobilise villagers towards community participation in the …

Large promises

Prime Minister Vajpayee is terribly interested in rural development these days. On his birthday he inaugurated Swajaldhara, a nation-wide water …

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