The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa examine the problem
In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act nrega . The latest avatar of state financed employment guarantee schemes egs geared to alleviate rural povert
The work of Tarun Bharat Sangh in Rajasthan has received much attention. There is an urgent need though to question development challenges that go overboard in extolling the virtues of greenery without tracing the hands that own the land and harvest the fruits of public money.
