Aug. 20: Eyeing on improving the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government will build panchayat ghars and Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras across the country over the next three years.

Surabhi Agarwal

Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 20, 2009, 1:06 IST

Members protest, rural ministry assures it will not be so hereafter.

The ministry of rural development is at the receiving end of criticism for holding in abeyance for a year the Employment Guarantee Council set up under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

WITH nearly 200 of the country

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: Even as the number of drought-hit districts in the country has risen to 207, several States have demanded that the limit of 100 days assured employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme be raised to 200 days as a drought relief measure.

Anandita Singh Mankotia

New Delhi: In a bid to limit the fiscal burden of Congress

M. B. Girish

For workers

Interview with Jean Dreze, development economist.

JEAN DREZE is an Indian development economist and a former member of the National Developmental Council. He is a member of the support group of the Right to Food campaign, an informal network of organisations and individuals committed to the realisation of the right to food in India.

Mihir Shah

Envisioning NREGA-II is important to realise the unfulfilled dreams of NREGA-I, which has failed thus far to break free of the shackles of a debilitating past.