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Young girls try to salvage illustrations from moth-eaten textbooks in Mile, Jharkhand.

Locked out: Emergency report on school education*

A recent survey of nearly 1,400 schoolchildren in underprivileged households brings out the catastrophic consequences of prolonged school closure in t

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Policy disaster

The PDS, the ICDS and the MDM schemes constitute lifelines for a vast majority of the population. Maternity entitlements need to be seen both as a rig

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Kerosene dealer Dharamvir Yadav poses for a photograph at his shop in Budhi Bawal village, Alwar district of Rajasthan on October 15, 2012. A total of 250,000 residents of Kotkasim, a bloc of Alwar district in western Rajasthan state, have been chosen to be part of a pilot scheme to end the sale of subsidised kerosene, a fuel used by the poor for lighting and cooking. AFP PHOTO/SAJJAD HUSSAIN

Cash for vote?

The government’s headlong rush to Aadhaar-linked payments for welfare schemes is bound to lead to their disruption and the exclusion of people who nee

At a slum in Patel Nagar in Hyderabad. A large number of the poor are excluded from the public distribution system. The PDS tends to work better where it is more inclusive targeting is divisive and undermines public pressure for a functional PDS.-NAGARA GOPAL

Understanding the PDS

A survey in nine States shows that they have quietly revived and expanded their public distribution system.

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A farmer putting his thumb impression on a petition against irregularities, including delayed payments, in the working of the NREGA at Akona village in Madhya Pradesh.-A.M. FARUQUI

Wages of delay

WHEN the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was enacted in 2005, it was celebrated as a peoples Act. It was an Act that focussed on labou

The battle for employment guarantee

THE dream I have for my son is that he should get at least 15 days of casual labour every month, said an elderly agricultural worker at a public heari

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