Three-year action plan identifies gaps in rural development schemes
Over the next three years, the government wants to focus on strengthening implementation and monitoring of existing schemes
PMFBY needs urgent repair: government study
A recent assessment of the flagship agriculture scheme says that PMFBY needs to favour farmers, not insurance companies that make super …
What do Union budgets mean for long-term agri development in India?
Union & state budgets need to place equal emphasis on sector-wide improvement & individual farmer-centric measures
Centre’s crop insurance scheme not good enough; Bihar launches its own plan for farmers
Bihar State Crop Assistance Scheme will ensure that farmers have enough money for next crop cycle if their current crop is destroyed by natural …
The dispensable India: Data shows how DNTs, Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims bore lockdown brunt
These communities have suffered on most social indicators due to a mix of poor logistics as well as prejudice and ostracisation
‘Only plantation cannot restore degraded land’
Down To Earth speaks to Ravindra Adusumilli of the Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture (RRA) Network, India about government policy on tackling …
Insurance companies have not paid 83% of farmers' claims
As farmers' protests demanding loan waiver pick up across the country, there are other people who owe them huge amount of money: the insurance …
Farmers protest forceful insurance premium deduction in Haryana
Farmers are confronting bank officials against premium deduction without their consent for the current Rabi season under Pradhan Mantri Fasal …
Compensate Telangana farmers immediately for crop loss: Farm activists
The Rythu Swarajya Vedika called on both Centre and state, to bury their hatchet and ensure disaster relief to lakhs of affected farmers
Centre admits challenges in implementing PMFBY, seeks robust system to assess crop loss
Failure to forecast rainfall and other weather events hinders assessment of crop loss and delays payment of insurance claims
Fuelling problems: India’s poor are being forced to return to unclean cooking fuels; here’s why
With LPG prices crossing the Rs 1,000-mark, the poor now have to make unfair choices about their basic standard of life
Ujjwala: Over 9 million beneficiaries did not refill cylinder last year, Centre admits
The prices of LPG are skyrocketing even as there has been a sharp reduction in the subsidy given for it
Ujjwala scheme successful in terms of number, but is it the same in its intent?
Distributing LPG connection is a job half done as ensuring its sustained usage is a bigger challenge that the government is currently facing
Latest in farmer woes: Heavy unseasonal rain, pending payouts from Centre’s crop insurance scheme
523,000 hectares in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh affected by untimely rains in March, April
Farmers on hunger strike in Sambalpur due to non-payment of crop insurance
Insurance claims were to be paid nine months ago but insurer Reliance General Insurance Company did not accept the government report on crop loss
Official data exposes Centre’s inflated claims on success of agriculture insurance scheme
The number of non-loanee farmers opting for insurance reached 9.7 million in kharif season of 2016 as against 9.8 million in the same period in …
Swalia Bibi: Ujjwala's beneficiary number 2 crore can no longer afford LPG
The family of six has to take a loan every time they want to get their cylinder refilled
Largest health insurance scheme for a dysfunctional public health system
India's failing health care system now bears the burden of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna, world's largest heath insurance scheme
580 million Indians will use solid fuel to cook in 2030
India, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will not meet Sustainable Development Goal 7.1, thus preventing the world from moving towards …
Close to 90% projects under PM's flagship irrigation scheme remain incomplete
These 8,214 projects, launched between 2009-10 and 2014-15, should have been completed in 4-7 years
State-run insurance firms headless; PMFBY implementation suffers
Performances of private insurance companies were also not encouraging, though they had been opted for those states where risk was less
Will India officially be poverty free in 2023?
National Statistical Office rolling out consumption expenditure sample survey; may note impact of central schemes adding to people’s income
In Poor Health: Thanks to Ayushman Bharat, free institutional delivery now costs Rs 9,000
First story in the series that explores whether Centre’s flagship scheme will ensure affordable and quality health care for all
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a good scheme with flawed execution, says CSE
Agriculture insurance is recognised as an important part of the safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather
Project without a plan
After two budgets and Rs 5,300 crore in funding, the Centre's micro irrigation project that promises water to every farmland is not even close to …
