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 …

'State govts acquire land by subverting rights and bending the law’

The Centre for Science and Environment filed RTI queries to 28 states to understand how states are circumventing the land acquisition law. The …

Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India

Corporate India gets indirect subsidy equivalent to 60 per cent of government expenditure on rural areas

Land use policy for the country on anvil

Rural development ministry revives two-decade old plan to demarcate the country according to land use to avert conflicts

Civil society seconds rural development ministry’s demand for MGNREGA funds

The rural development ministry had recently demanded an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to maintain the momentum of MGNREGA

NDA introduces changes in MGNREGA

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

Centre launches awareness campaign for MGNREGA

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

Socio-economic caste census: only 4 states, UTs complete survey

Union rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, asks all states to sort out inconsistencies in preliminary data

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

PMO orders huge cuts in social sector spending for 2015-16

Employment guarantee, rural road and sanitation schemes among those likely to be affected

Protocol to protect RTI activists in the works

If a single panchayat-level activist can expose corruption worth Rs 25 lakh, then each needs protection for effective implementation of …