Civil society seconds rural development ministry’s demand for MGNREGA funds
The rural development ministry had recently demanded an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to maintain the momentum of MGNREGA
Rice intensification for increasing productivity
System of Rice Intensification is new mantra for reducing water usage and increasing productivity
Centre launches MGNREGA 2.0
30 new types of work added to the rural job guarantee scheme list to restore demand for work under UPA's flagship welfare programme
Interview: Popatrao Pawar, sarpanch, Hivre Bazar
Digging shallow
Pitfalls of a uniform food regime
In face of drought and rising food prices, attention shifts to local diet and food diversity
Is new land bill up to mark?
Draft land bill proposes higher compensation for land acquisitions, but complaints persist
Sunita's Bytes on Budget
Banks expand arms, but not through branches
Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools
Big idea
Monsoon vegetable jackfruit has caught the fancy of entrepreneurs in India, one of its biggest producers
All about the new land acquisition Bill
Proposed law will replace the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 and unlike the British-era Act it provides for rehabilitation and resettlement as well
When villages plug in
A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …
Bihar slashes spending on education and social welfare
Coal-based power receives a major boost in the state budget presented on March 12
NDA introduces changes in MGNREGA
Rural development ministry to make social audit compulsory; create more durable assets in blocks and districts, instead of villages
Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry
Survey hints at what we can expect from Union Budget 2015-16
Innovative administrator
IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people
No substance in budget's agriculture hype
Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts
Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…
Another poll sop: MGNREGS wage to be hiked from April 1
Move was preceded by series of initiatives to woo rural voters; these include money to construct toilets and insurance benefits
Some nets and sunshine
Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats
Grains of doubt
Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme
Shock treatment
Nightmarish laws and an insensitive government keeps thousands in the dark
Global grid
Whether it is Asia or Europe, countries find a new mantra: decentralise and electrify
With IT villages
Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking
Question on employment guarantee scheme's success