Noting that low female literacy was impeding growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched a major initiative in the education sector…

Food security in India is getting more and more dependent on annual monsoons. In a year of low rainfall, a…

Hydrodollars-in-spate may choke off the artery to a whole region    On August 11, the theatre of the absurd came…

Houses in villages are deserted as over 1,50,000 farmers have left in the last one month Chhattarpur (M.P.): Even as…

The issue is not monitoring, but the administrative structure itself, at the district and village levels The Planning Commission has…

The time has come for a comprehensive right-to-food law to tackle the deprivation and food insecurity that haunts India.  Over…

Before tinkering with the NREGA in the name of reforms, the government must ensure that the foundations of the scheme…

With shift to a high-input cash cropping system, the debt process bears an uncanny resemblance to the ‘catastrophe’ If it…

THE LAUNCH of free market liberalisation in 1991 triggered widespread prosperity for the Indian middle classes, making them the showpiece…

Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised that “nobody will go hungry” in the country, the Centre is asking…

They contest Planning Commission’s poverty estimates  Food Bill exercise calls for detailed discussion and exclusive meeting: States Transfer of food…

THE PASSING OF THE Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008, on July 20 this year, a…

After widening the ambit of the NREGS to include works on the private land of small and marginal farmers, the…

The concepts of multiplier and accelerator borrowed from macroeconomic theory illuminate the enormous potential of NREGA and help set standards…

Envisioning NREGA-II is important to realise the unfulfilled dreams of NREGA-I, which has failed thus far to break free of…