Gujarat v UPA: models of non-governance?

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

NREGS expansion

Will the budget create a bang?

The 2015-16 Union budget will declare Modi government's development agenda

Dash for cash

Government unprepared but goes ahead with direct cash transfer

Drought but why

It is time we understood that since drought is human-made it can be reversed

24 deaths in 2 months

Monsoon deficit spikes rural job demand under MGNREGS

Job demands in some states higher than recorded in COVID-19 pandemic

MGNREGS workers in Kerala to get pension

State and Centre to contribute Rs 1,000 each per head

Jairam Ramesh releases NREGS funds to Uttar Pradesh with conditions attached

Move coincides with Rahul Gandhi's public relations campaign in poll-bound state

Movement for worse

The marginalised from Western Odisha who migrate out of the state lead difficult lives

Bull to bull's eye

Farmers resolute on not sharing Hirakud waters

Foodgrains risk rot

No place to store seven million tonnes of procured foodgrains

Faulty policy causes Maharashtra's farmlands to go dry

West Bengal MGNREGS workers protest over stopping funds to scheme, non-payment of arrears

Protestors gather at chief labour commissioner office, ask for immediate action

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

Uttar Pradesh to revive dry rivulets under MGNREGS

Revival of small river in Fatehpur district shows the way

Relocation by half measure

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Grains of doubt

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

Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21