How MGNREGA is promoting climate-smart villages
The works include constructing percolation tanks, households living in the catchment area for construction of check dams, afforestation, contour&…
Parched no more: MGNREGA enables multi-cropping in Bundelkhand’s Himmatpura
A check dam has allowed a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jalaun district to grow crops in two cycles
Secure from drought: How MGNREGA changed lives in Bandlapalli
The village from where the scheme was launched in India, has remained untouched by drought in a water-scarce region
Tasar rearing may bail out 600 mining-affected families in Keonjhar
The Rs 23.75-crore project in the state’s Keonjhar district will be implemented using DMF and MGNREGS funds
Developing issues
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At which road head?
Not the path of economic growth, but the trail leading back to the village is the answer
Critiquing globalisation
In Churning the Earth, The Making of Global India, environmentalist Ashish Kothari and economist Aseem Shrivastava put India's much-hyped growth …
As told to Parliament (February 10, 2021): Some 37,439 villages in India without 3G/4G coverage
All that was discussed in the House through the day
As told to Parliament (September 18, 2020): 10,281 Indian farmers died by suicide in 2019
Drought but why
It is time we understood that since drought is human-made it can be reversed
Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget
The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity
Australia divided over carbon trading
24 deaths in 2 months
A quick fix: How ponds built under MGNREGA turned lives around
The realisation that ponds can rapidly recharge groundwater has increased demand for MGNREGA
COVID-19: UP stares at mammoth challenge as migrants return home
More than 1.2 million migrants returned to Uttar Pradesh since the nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25, according to state official
Drought forever
Severe drought strikes India every eight to nine years and is a major reason for perpetuating poverty
The poorest shun MGNREGA
Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years
Jobs Jobs Jobs
The government is obsessed with economic growth. Employment is bound to follow, it claims. That's a delusion. The swelling numbers of unemployed …
How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore
The “little known” success story of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has unfolded as a disaster. …
MGNREGS workers in Kerala to get pension
State and Centre to contribute Rs 1,000 each per head
Elusive hunt for skills and jobs
Budget outlays will not do much for job creation or readying youth for skilled work
Agents of change
Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving
Jairam Ramesh releases NREGS funds to Uttar Pradesh with conditions attached
Move coincides with Rahul Gandhi's public relations campaign in poll-bound state
Afforestation wages in cash
Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order
The swing
More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas