Dow ransacked

People’s manifesto

Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto

On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat's case is statutorily sound

Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Role models

Two Madhya Pradesh villages break free of debts, Naxalites

Andhra in a fix over quota

Cancels local body polls as court says reservation can’t exceed 50%

Streamlining autonomy

Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states

The Bharat Nirman outpour

Rs 174,000 crore sanctioned for new scheme to build rural infrastructure

Karnataka legislature amends state Panchayati Raj Act

People's victory over IFFCO thermal plant

The rift valley

With no income options, Ghangharia residents want forestland for hotels

Maharashtra forest department backtracks on forest fire guidelines

To relax rules to lure tendu contractors

Development is not a road

Rajasthan mine workers form cooperatives

Forest rights rules inconsonant with act

The next challenge

Bureaucrats pose a threat to the process

The impact

Kerala's income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs

A long haul

Decentralisation in Kerala is the work of a persistent civil society

Monkeys destroy crops in Himachal, farmers fume at government apathy

Left loses in Singur, Nandigram

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves

Himachal's tree sanction policy is flawed