Category: Rural India

The PMO responds to the letters of the PMO’s grievances Cell! Also the PMO is active and sensitive to the citizens’ petitions! Even now the dilemma of Panchayat Raj vs. District Collector’s Raj! Yet creating rural employment is not so easy. Rural India is a complex web. The Indian migrants problem is very intricate indeed….

Why mainstream media ignores the agri sector? Or, for that matter, issues in rural development? The mainstream media, mostly the English  language mainstream media writes of issues in agriculture and rural  development, the two high priority  areas where the largest number of people are engaged  is almost pathetic. For quite some time we were fed…

Farmer’s suicides seem unabated, they continue! Yet, no systematic response is in sight! It is easy to blame the government for many of the ills of governance. The Prime Minister is blamed routinely for many of the ills and lack of governance in some critical areas.  Farmers’ continued suicides are not in this category. Farmers…

Who can give an answer? There are always either doom stories or boom stories! When it comes to our villages! Indian villages would thrive as ever as anyone can look into the future. Villages have lived in all developed countries. In UK, the glories of the countryside is celebrated. There are any number of legends…

The greatest rural transformation is taking place now! Increasingly, urban impact, urban opinion might swing opinion in the rest of India? It is said that the distance between the town and the countryside is narrowing. And narrowing faster these days. The Up riots at Muzzaffarnagar soon spread to the countryside and it was all in…

Elections and the rural rich! How rich-poor divide will keep Indian villages always exploited! Rich candidates vs. the poor voters and the constant picture of rural India! Agriculture, the largest employer still and yet the rich politicians, the dynastic successors will define the future of the villages and the future of India as well? We…

It is about decentralised development! Corruption, populism and the general awareness of issues and the role of media matters! Picture postcard scenes from other India! Arent our villages still beautiful? Pastel green paddy fields still cheer us! Bullock carts, the very many, though still unfinished, rural roads and much of the average village faces look…

But our top-heavy New Delhi decision-makers thinks otherwise! UPA-II caught in multiple issues National Advisory Council (NAC)’s ideas rejected by the rural development ministry, food ministry and others. NAC is National Food Security Bill (NFSB) is facing resistance from various administrative ministries. With no idea of entrusting the jobs scheme to monitoring by panchayats and…