Author: Bharat Dogra

Authorities’ shrewd caveat? NREGA payment ‘subject to funds availability’: Barmer women protest

India is among very few developing countries to have a rural employment guarantee scheme. Apart from providing employment during the lean farm work season, this scheme can make a...

Used for checking corruption, irregularities for 15 yrs, RTI being turned into ‘dead letter law’

"People of this country have a right to know every public act, everything done in a public way, by their public functionary. They are...

How corruption in rural development leads to floating ‘undesirable, unsafe’ projects

Recently I was in a very remote village to inquire about the impact made by of a very well-intentioned housing scheme of the government....

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