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About
Dev spent 5 years as a Doordarshan correspondent before joining NT's field team. He covers rural India with a focus on agrarian distress, welfare scheme delivery gaps, and the last-mile reality of central government programmes. He has filed from 14 states.
Credentials & Background
Former Doordarshan rural correspondent. Worked with PARI (People's Archive of Rural India) 2019–22.
Recent Pieces by Dev
The farmers who never saw PM housing scheme funds arrive
In Barabanki and Sitapur, we met 22 families listed as beneficiaries in government portals who had received nothing.
MSP vs. market price: the 200-rupee gap that broke families
In three UP mandis, wheat was selling at ₹1,800 when MSP was ₹2,015. We documented why farmers couldn't access procurement.
One year of PM-KISAN in eastern UP — who got it, who didn't
Of 4,800 surveyed beneficiaries in 3 districts, 1,240 reported incomplete or blocked payments. Here is the breakdown.