rural employment

Rural youth are a valuable asset. Bringing them on as frontline cadres in the water and agriculture sectors can strengthen rural development.

We will need to embrace technology and markets, and improve farmer incomes exponentially to stay relevant in a rapidly changing agriculture sector.

Even amidst a lockdown, the farm sector is still operating; and with the right interventions, it could pave the way to spur the revival of the rural economy.

Communities are treated as passive recipients, giving them no say in the functioning of their schools. Here's why this needs to change.

Including labour payments for farm activities, from sowing to harvesting, in MGNREGA is unviable and detrimental to the programme.

NREGA, the world’s largest workfare programme, crowded out private sector employment, lowered rural-to-urban migration in certain states, and increased wages.