'Maps of resource-rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'

Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent …

India lifted 271 mln people out of poverty in 10 yrs, claims govt report

The poverty estimates used to back the claims, however, are decade old

Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Economy of slippage

Spreading message

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

Prices rise, not hunger

People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO

Raghuvansh Prasad, minister for rural development, on NREGA

'Social protection: a safety net for agricultural households'

In the run up to World Food Day on October 16, a Food and Agriculture Organization report focuses on the role of social protection in …

Tackling poverty

INDIA: REDUCING POVERTY, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT, A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY·Oxford University Press·New Delhi·260 pages

Anaemia rampant in women in Bageshwar

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

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, …

A rose or a ladder?

BPL millionaires

Industrial houses use tribals as fronts to amass tribal land in Chhattisgarh

Remembering Kalinganagar - Will cheap and dirty industrialization work?

Into the abyss?

The situation of India's farmers has only become grimmer in the past decade, according to the latest National Sample Survey Office report

Only plans, no integration

Andhra to promote chemical free cultivation

State's rural development and agriculture departments to work together to encourage organic farming

SUBSIDISED KILLING

They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery,…

Naxalism works

Wages of fear: How did COVID-19 geographic shift affect MGNREGA implementation?

The understanding should be part of India’s contingency plan to support rural livelihoods in the event of a third wave of the pandemic

SEZ, how special?

Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has …

Mandla Brimful of thirst

Average rainfall: 1,300 mm Irrigation: 2% of gross cropped area