Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

Ministers fight over funding National Rainfed Area Authority

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

The politics of empty words

Prices rise, not hunger

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

Raghuvansh Prasad, minister for rural development, on NREGA

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

Perhaps yes, minister

Paying farmers for ecological services

Centre fund for rural development mismanaged

PDS protests in West Bengal

The god of ecological things

Making money through herbs in Himachal

Medicinal plants can improve the fortunes of state's rural poor

Job half done

25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent

Mandla Brimful of thirst

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

Heading towards a cliff

As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor

Is India ready?

Effective social schemes need more than cash transfer

World Bank to assist Chad

Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

Letter

Last ditch attempt

UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor