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Sunday, September 21, 2025
TopicRural Development

Topic: Rural Development

In UP’s Gorakhpur, women have taken the lead to run the family — with a little ‘self-help’

In Gorakhpur's Jigina Bhion, 18 self-help groups are helping women support their families, after husbands lost jobs during the pandemic. They say 'we would've starved without this'.

Villagers don’t have a say in their development. This IAS officer-led group is changing that

Three basic principles — a low-or-no cost model, convergence, and people-participation — can speed up rural development in India.

‘Inordinate delay’ in release of funds for MGNREGA workers discouraging — Parliamentary panel

Standing Panel on Rural Development says the department should ensure the funds reach on time. The department stated 98.7% of fund transfer orders are generated within 15 days.

Govt looks at ‘urban planning’ for rural India, Rurban Mission set for digital boost

For the revamped mission, the rural development ministry is planning to seek an allocation of Rs 30,000-40,000 crore — a drastic leap from the Rs 600 crore it was allotted in FY21.

Time poverty is making Indian women lose more money than ever

In ‘Labouring women’, economist Jayati Ghosh writes about what Indian policymakers are getting wrong in their measure of poverty.

India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural development

The systematic marginalisation of agriculture in Indian economy, including by Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget, reveals why we can never fix it.

Wealth creation in Economic Survey: Slowdown forces Modi govt to shed ‘suit-boot’ fear?

With “wealth creation” as the central theme of 2020 Economic Survey, Modi govt has harked back to its capitalist orientation in the backdrop of an economic slowdown.

‘No anganwadi centres built in 7 yrs because rural job plan was not interpreted correctly’

Rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha said MGNREGA had been misunderstood between 2006 and 2013-14, but since then, the govt has built 2 lakh centres.

Modi govt is flaunting two schemes — one that brings light & one that cuts carbon output

PM Modi’s Saubhagya scheme electrified 45,000 houses per day and UJALA scheme has distributed over 34.75 crore LED bulbs.

Poor electricity service quality plagues Modi’s Saubhagya scheme, but there are ways out

Modi's ambitious rural electrification scheme will work if it breaks away from the traps of power theft, non-repayment and low electricity demand.

On Camera

Ahmedabad’s Calico Museum took away my phone. And then something magical happened

Without my phone, I wasn't thinking about capturing some beautiful textiles for my ‘inspiration gallery’. I was fully present, taking in the colours and patterns on display.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.