Research and Writings: Field Reports

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This section contains field reports on the right to food and related issues.

Latest additions:
• NREGA not just about drought relief, but relief against drought (CSE) [10 August]
• Brinda Karat (2006) Status of NREGA in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu (Letter to Shri P. Chidambaram, July 2006)
• Institute for Human Development (2006) A study of the NREGA in Bihar
• Villupuram: Long Road to Employment Guarantee (Jean Drèze and Sowmya Kidambi)
• Villupuram: NREGA off the Beaten Track (NREGA Watch Tamil Nadu)

• 2008
  • NREGA not just about drought relief, but relief against drought (CSE) [10 August]
• 2007
  • Employment guarantee: unfinished agenda (Jean Drèze and Siddhartha Lal, Hindu, 13 July 2007)
  • Brinda Karat (2006) Status of NREGA in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu (Letter to Shri P. Chidambaram, July 2006)
  • Villupuram: Long Road to Employment Guarantee (Jean Drèze and Sowmya Kidambi, July 2007)
  • Villupuram: NREGA off the Beaten Track (NREGA Watch Tamil Nadu, July 2007)
  • Report of the Fact Finding Team on Infant Death in Simlipal Sanctuary (7 June 2007)
  • NREGA in Uttar Pradesh (Saikat Datta and Anuradha Raman, April 2007)
• 2006
  • Institute for Human Development (2006) A study of the NREGA in Bihar
  • Sahyog (2006) Report of a public hearing on the Right to Food (Allahabad, 9 December 2006)
  • Budget Analysis and Resource Centre (BARC), 2006 Study of Mid-day Meals in Rajasthan (questionnaire) [Hindi]
  • Dr. V. A. Gangadharan (2006) Noon Meal Scheme in Kerala New Management proposal for the School Lunch Programme: An Empirical Study for the Director of Public Instruction, Government of Kerala (State Institute of Educational Management and Training-Kerala)
  • Prakash Louis (2006) NREGA Implementation - II: Birth Pangs in Bihar (Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)
  • Arun Jacob and Richard Verghese (2006) NREGA Implementation - I: Reasonable beginning in Palakkad, Kerala (Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)
  • Ration-Cards for Marginalized Families: a field study in Karnataka (John Abraham, 2006)
  • Survey to monitor implementation of the NREGA: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh (Presentation by Jayati Ghosh to Ministry of Rural Development on a survey by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, 30 August 2006) [Powerpoint]
  • Fact Finding Report on the Status of implementation of scheme under NREGA in Bengabad Block of Giridih District, Jharkhand (Mazdoor Kisan Samiti & Nari Shakti Sangathan, Jharkhand, September 2006)
  • Fact Finding Report on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Tamil Nadu (TN-FORCES, 8 September 2006)
  • All India Agrarian Labourers' Association (AIALA), 2006 Employment Guarantee Act: Tall Claims and Ground Realities; Soaring Prices, Crumbling Public Distribution System, and the UPA Government (Report of a public hearing, 17 August 06, Jantar Mantar, New Delhi)
  • Jan Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS) (2006) Struggles to ensure employment and minimum wages in Barwani [ZIP]
  • SRIJAN (2006) Three-day padyatra by SRIJAN to create awareness on NREGA
  • Participatory Research and Action (PRIA) (2006) Implementation of NREGA - Experience so far [ZIP]
  • Report of conference on NREGA in Bhawanipatna, Orissa
  • Report of social audit at Budiar, Orissa
  • Implementation of NREGA in Bhawanipatna block of Kalahandi
  • Anil Varghese, Rajkumar, Spurthi Reddy (2006): Worksite survey of projects under national food for work programme in District : Dungarpur Block : Bichchiwada
  • Sachin Jain (2006) Poverty, migration & national rural employment guarantee scheme a case study on Sahariya primitive tribal group in Madhya Pradesh (June 2006)
  • Janpath and Sabar Ekta Manch (2006) Status Report on Implementation of NREGA in Gujarat (May 2006)
  • Tribal migration: whither employment guarantee?
  • Preliminary report of a multi-district survey on EGA
  • Asha (2006), Victory for labourers on May Day (1 May 2006)

• 2005
  • ICHR, Shashwat Surakshit Upjivika Adhikar Abhiyan, Anna Hakk Abhiyan (Maharashtra) and Sathi CEHAT (2005) Right to Food: Report on a Workshop in Maharashtra (18-20 September, 2005)
  • Anuradha De, Claire Noronha and Meera Samson (2005) Towards more benefits from Delhi's midday meal scheme
  • Sachin Jain et al (2005) A Study of the ICDS in Madhya Pradesh [Hindi]
  • Julia Blue (2005) The Government Primary School Mid-day Meals Scheme: An Assessment of Program Implementation and Impact in Udaipur District
  • Uma Chaturvedi (2005) The Precarious Situation of Adivasis in Majhera Village (Shivpuri District) [Hindi]
  • Mihir Shah (2005) Letter to Collector, Shivpuri
  • Pradeep Bhargava and Manju Balana (2005) Unemployment during lean season: Benevolence of the state
  • PUCL (2005) Report of hunger deaths in Baran (excerpts)
  • Pushpendra Kumar Singh (2005) Status of implementation of food and work related schemes in Bihar
  • Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group (2005) Sheopur Disaster: An Alert Note on Death of Children in Patalgarh
  • Sachin Jain (2005) Malnutrition Disaster in MP
  • Sachin Jain (2005) Unfolding Public Distribution System in Madhya Pradesh
  • Sachin Jain (2005) Children in Danger: Malnutrition deaths in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh
  • Sachin Jain (2005) The Game of Targeted Public Distribution System iin the Life of Tribal Communities of Madhya Pradesh
  • Sukhadeo Thorat and Joel Lee (2005) Caste Discrimination and Food Security Programmes (EPW, 24 September 2005)
• 2004
  • Anuradha Talwar (2004) Starvation among teagarden workers in Assam
  • Mihir Shah (2004) Report on Death of 3 Tribal Children at Saidabad village, Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh
  • Priya Pillai and Sachin Jain (2004) Malnutrition deaths in Madhya Pradesh
  • Pushpendra Kumar Singh and Tanushree Sood, with Ashish Kumar (2004) Report of Mid-Day Meal survey in East Champaran and Supaul districts, Bihar
  • Sachin Jain (2004) Madhya Pradesh experience of BPL Census
  • Azra Khan (2004) Corruption in food for work scheme in Mau, UP
  • Sanjay Vijayvergiya (2004) Discrimination of Forest Village
  • Kusum and Kanchuki (2004) Exclusion of tribals from welfare schemes: Case of Kol Community
  • Azra Khan (2004) Violation of Right to food among migrant workers in UP
  • FIAN-UP (2004) Violation of Right to food in Bairach, UP
  • U K Sinha (2004) Food Security of small UP farmers
  • V B Rawat (2004) Living on the edge
  • V B Rawat (2004) Musahars: Tale of untold miseries
• 2003
  • Anuradha Talwar (2003) Status report on implementation of Supreme Court's directions in West Bengal
  • Jean Drèze and Aparajita Goyal (2003) The Future of Mid-day meals
  • Bikash Das (2003) Joint Committee report on corruption in SGRY in Sundargarh District, Orissa(2003)
  • Pushpendra Kumar Singh, Pramod Kumar Singh, and Lajwanti Jha (2003) Preliminary Report on Starvation Deaths in Madhepura, Bihar
  • Roma, Ajay Pathak and Vibha Vohra (2003) The Death of 18 Children due to hunger and disease in Sonbadhra, UP
  • Sachin Jain (2003) Dalit Women's struggle for minimum wages, Dhar District M.P.
  • Seema and Prakash (2003) Dalit women win
  • Shonali Sen (2003) Status of Implementation of Supreme Court Orders in Dahi Block (Dhar District, MP)
  • Shonali Sen (2003) Food and employment schemes in Barabanki UP
  • Shonali Sen and Vivek S. (2003) Sheopur Report: Functioning of food and food-related schemes in Sheopur District, MP
  • Subashini Ali (2003) AIDWA struggle for Food Security in U.P
  • Subashini Ali (2003) Non-distribution of Antyodaya cards in UP, a case study by AIDWA
  • Action Aid (2003) Survey of ICDS in Koriya District, Chhattisgarh
  • Akal Sangharsh Samiti (2003) Towards a People's Asembly: Report on dharna by Akal Sangarsh Samiti
  • V B Rawat (2003) Where has the rice gone from FFW programme: Report from Mau district, U.P.
• 2002
  • Eric Kerbart and Sowmya Sivakumar (2002) Migrant workers in the informal construction sector: survey in the chowktis of Jaipur
  • PUCL (2002) Report on Starvation in Baran

Last updated: 14 August 2008