Diary of a Rural Manager!

The informal economy in India is run by entrepreneurs providing products and services to the customers. These low-skilled occupations requir...

Let us start from Migration Series - 1 . Once there was a popular myth: in the Government and Development Sector: Migration of 'poor...

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated the Xavier University on the outskirts of the Capital city of Bhubaneswar. Report by Od...

One can't escape the plight of migrant labour while living in the KBK region. Most of the semi-skilled workers migrate to Gujarat. A lar...

Communication for development (C4D) in rural areas employs the same tools as MNCs but serves different purposes. Rural Communication campaig...

The international standard for the definition of the poor i.e. a household that spends more than one-third of its income on food is followed...

SHGs were formed under Mission Shakti in Odisha. Odisha government started a validation and grading exercise to know SHG status in December ...

Disaster Management in Phailin was remarkable in its aspect of losing minimum lives when faced with challenge of massive proportion. India e...

What is a social audit ? It is better to have an idea of the concept in the first place.  Social_Audit_Report is uploaded to the NREGS webs...

I reported at DRDA office, Ganjam district on 18th November 2013. I was relived from previous duty for PHAILIN rehabilitation work. Emergen...

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."- Richard Feynman ; That is why,...

"Where the poor participate as subjects and not as objects of the development process, it is possible to generate growth, human develop...

The official stint at Balangir is over after 175 Days. I have been transferred to Ganjam district that will be effective from 18th November ...

NREGA funds are used for natural resource management activities by generating wage employment for the poor as well as strengthening their li...

I saw two vans simply parked around in block office compound at Balangir district. I don't know which department/agency own the vehicle...

I joined OLM office as YP at Balangir on 27th May 2013. I completed 100 working days today. Let me redirect reader to details of the place ...

India’s most enduring heritage since independence is poverty. Poverty can't be fought by throwing doles and subsidy in the name of gover...

SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS:- The social inclusion process will include two steps; first to identify the left out poor, those who are not a part ...

Targeted Rural Initiatives for Poverty Termination & Infrastructure (TRIPTI) aims at enhancing the socio-economic status of the poor, es...

"No man is a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot I personally identify and like t...