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Sunday, October 12, 2025
TopicRural Development

Topic: Rural Development

Last Laughs: The incomplete electrification of India’s villages and Biplab-nomics

Neera Majumdar -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Why are Uttarakhand’s young leaving the state? Govt report to shed light soon

Pragya Kaushika -
A lack of employment opportunities for the state’s youngsters is among the factors thought to be forcing them to seek work elsewhere.

PM Modi’s model village scheme gets big thumbs down from most MPs

Ruhi Tewari -
416 Lok Sabha MPs and 214 Rajya Sabha MPs haven’t adopted a village under the third phase of the scheme, which was to be implemented by 2019.

MGNREGA wage clearance improves, but still not reaching workers on time

Ruhi Tewari -
Rural Development Ministry says crediting wages in workers’ accounts within the 15-day time limit will be its key focus in FY 2018-19.

Modi govt’s last full budget to give Rs 1 lakh crore boost to rural development

Ruhi Tewari -
Key job guarantee and livelihood schemes to get increased budget allocation; the ongoing farm crisis seems to influenced govt decision.

Talk Point: Rural Gujarat in 2002 was backward, bleak, and lacking in reliable electricity and water

Tavleen Singh -
The Gujarat model cannot be a model for the whole of India, but it can work at the state government level.

Centre gives massive budget for MGNREGA, states say not enough for even delay compensation

Ruhi Tewari -
More than half the delay compensation rejections in 2017-18 are due to “insufficient funds”. Centre says no paucity of funds, states just being careless. Ruhi Tewari
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Opinion

America gifted China its rare-earth monopoly — and India helped too

+TFP Praveen Swami -
The rare-earth crisis shows how misplaced government policies and corporate greed can collude to create a strategic crisis.

Young women are designing their own relationships. Love is now add-on, not operating system

India must fight terror but avoid being seen as acting at America’s behest: G Parthasarathy

Economy

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Udit Bubna -
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

Defence

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

National Interest

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Shekhar Gupta -
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.

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