While the electoral victory of the National Democratic Alliance in 2019 can, in part, be attributed to its welfare schemes and ...

There is a proliferation of income support schemes on the Indian public policy landscape. Add to this two more by the principal ...

Four years after the Government of India launched the Swachch Bharat Mission (SBM), what is the reality in rural Uttar Pradesh, ...

In a politically sensitive pre-election Union Budget the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has lost possibly its last ...

As public sector banks fall short of meeting rural India's credit requirements, the money lender, often usurious, has re-emerged ...

India’s agricultural growth in the past two decades has been slower than the rest of the economy. This has led to resentment among ...

As one of the world’s largest rural connectivity endeavours, the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project has been the ...

Droughts draw attention to failure of government supply programmes. With each passing year the severity of the water crisis ...

In the summer of 2016, at least a third of India’s rural residents are battling drought, often for the third consecutive year.

Karnataka is in the grip of severe drought despite heavy rains in most regions of south-interior Karnataka in early May 2016. The ...