MNREGS
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Are we listening to the lessons taught in the first year of Covid-19?
How to set up and operate collective health systems to ensure the virus does not run rampant? And more...
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When an army of women came together to revive a river
1200 people created hundreds of recharge wells and boulder checks - nearly all workers were women.
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Raju: 1 Billion(!) Trees planted in a Day!
S. M. Raju ingeniously integrated the Indian government’s rural employment guaranty scheme (NREGA) with tree plantation drives.
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Saving for Rainy Days
People of West Bengal’s Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis
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The Grassroots Lokpal
How beneficiary-led monitoring of government-run services, such as ration shops and rural healthcare, functions in a few states.