What rural folk need is motivation

V B SALUNKE, a 58-year-old social worker, abandoned his engineering firm in 1972 to mobilise villagers towards community participation in the …

Large promises

Prime Minister Vajpayee is terribly interested in rural development these days. On his birthday he inaugurated Swajaldhara, a nation-wide water …

Rural roads connectivity in India to get a fillip

Should NABARD regulate micro-finance?

Gujarat village project

Divisive move

Attempted panchayati raj reforms in Madhya Pradesh

It holds no water

Shoddy planning and poor execution mar many watershed revival projects

Troubled start

Creation of panchayati raj ministry sparks row

No funds for rural project

The rural experiment

THE VILLAGE REPUBLIC VHS (PAL) . 50 min .Christopher Rego

Down the drain

The recently launched food for work programme may not ensure local food security

Autumn of a patriarch

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, famous social reformer, turns 80

Dubious benefit

Widespread protests over Subarnarekha's revival

Going the bio way

The Biovillage project provides rural folk the finance and technical knowhow to cultivate for the market while conserving water and soil

Panchayat elections are set to become all the more important

These village-level governments have all the ingredients to make or break a political party’s fortune

Allocation for schools in tribal areas increased, but funds for other education schemes heavily slashed

Funds for hostels and pre-matric scholarships for ST students sustained a drop of 94 per cent and 75 per cent respectively

India's budget just declared

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declares major schemes in his post-demonetisation message on new year's eve

Cull the caste

The fight against the caste system must be about control over natural resources, not professions of marginalised groups

Simple, easy and healthy

Gujarat trader makes affordable sanitary napkins and develops India's first machine to hygienically dispose them of Darshan Desai

Rs 60 crore for 250,000 panchayats

The Centre's decision to reduce Panchayati Raj Ministry's budget and transfer its schemes to states has left the ministry bewildered about its …

Tissue culture in a pressure cooker

A new tissue culture technique that is claimed to be cheap and easy to understand is fast gaining popularity.

Villegers blueprint their own development

MYRADA moves a step forward in rural appraisal programmes, emphasising the necessity of involving villagers in their own development.

Breaking the rural barrier

The Centre for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, set up in 1974, was a bold effort at bringing appropriate technology to the …

Fuel for food

While energy consumption surveys have shown a very high level of firewood consumption, various forest departments have shown very low levels of …

Jairam Ramesh seeks to minimise budget cut for rural development

Gives details to finance ministry on the impact of revised budget estimates on individual schemes