Poverty

 Stories of success and failure

sampat Lal is not the protagonist of a typical Down To Earth story. He's the treasurer of a cooperative that runs a fair price shop in a Rajasthan village. Quite successfully, in fact. Lal

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
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Food Supply, Workers, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Governance And Institutions, Cooperatives, India, Rajasthan, Food Security
India

 Food aid comes a cropper

the central government's food assistance schemes haven't worked. The 61st round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (nsso) report on Public Distribution System and Other Sources of

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Food Aid, Consumption Patterns, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Food Security
India

 PDS fails in feeding India's poor

India's Targeted Public Distribution System (tpds) gives subsidised essential commodities to economically weaker households. Till 1997, the system had supplied subsidised commodities to

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
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Food Policy, Food Supply, Consumption Patterns, Subsidies, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Statistics, Food Security
Environment

 Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development

Book>> Daniel Klingensmith,

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Praveen Singh
Down to Earth
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Food Supply, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, Food Security
Health

Judgement of the Delhi High Court on mid-day meals dated 08/06/2007

Judgement of the Delhi High Court on the decision of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) awarding contracts
for providing cooked mid-day meals to students of Primary schools in Delhi dated 08/06/2007.

Judgement Date: 
08/06/2007
Tags:
Mid-Day Meal Programme, Child Health, Nutrition, Delhi, Anti-Poverty Programmes, High Court, Municipal Corporation
India

 Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

Hope floated in drought-hit Mastapur village when people heard of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) in 2006. Residents of this village in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district thought

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
Neha Sakhuja, Shachi Chaturvedi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Conservation, Water Demand, Rural Water Supply, Watershed Development, Rural Roads, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, Panchayats, NGO, India, Madhya Pradesh
India

 Should NABARD regulate micro finance?

The Micro Financial Sector (Development & Regulations) Bill 2007 has been under the scanner of late. The bill proposes to make the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (nabard) the

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Sandip Das
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Rural Development, Finance, Services, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Legislation, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Cooperatives, India, Rural Poverty
India

 Committee asks for professionalism in CAPART

a planning Commission expert committee recommended early in March that an autonomous body under the Union ministry of rural development (mord) be professionalised. The autonomous body

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Sandip Das, Supriya Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, CAPART, India
Governance And Institutions

Adarsh Gaon Yojana - Way towards Gandhi's dream village: Self-sufficient, prosperous and peaceful

Most of the rural development models considered natural resource management as the means for rural transformation. The present paper reveals the impact of one such rural development models named "Adarsh Gaon Yojana" of Government of Maharashtra, which is based on natural resource management and watershed management.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2007
Shahaji Phand, H. P. S. Arya
Journal of Rural Development
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Tags:
Agriculture, Water Conservation, Watershed Development, Farmers, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Governance And Institutions, Panchayats, Maharashtra, Ahmadnagar (D), Sustainable Development
India

 NREGA extended

50 more districts in the ambit After months of squabbling among the Union ministry of rural development (MoRD), the Union ministry of finance (MoF) and the Planning Commission, the Centre has

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Planning, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, India, Rural Poverty

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