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In Kerala, Women Surge Into Politics—And Fail
Over 20 years and five assembly elections—as women became better educated, led a variety of popular movements, voted in and contested elections in ever greater numbers in Kerala—the number of...
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Largest Number Of Airline Complaints Against Air India
Domestic airlines reported flying 47.6 million passengers during the first six months of the current year (January-June), an increase of 22% from January-June 2015, according to data released on...
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24 Indian Monuments ‘Missing’, Half From UP
As many as 24 monuments under the charge of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)–the government agency responsible for national heritage–are “missing”, half from Uttar Pradesh (UP), according to...
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87% Of Indian-Worker Exploitation Complaints From Gulf Nations
As thousands of laid-off Indian workers in Saudi Arabia were said to be without food, 87% of complaints received from Indian workers at Indian missions across nine countries were from six Gulf...
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Agriculture In 115 Indian Districts Most At Risk From Climate Change
A farmer harvests partially damaged crop due to lack of rain. The first to analyse 38 meteorological, agricultural and social data across all of India’s 572 rural districts, a new study creates a...
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7 Hit-And-Run Accidents Every Hour. How Witnesses Can Help
Remains of the vehicles involved in a road accident that happened on Mumbai-Goa highway. Hit-and-run cases accounted for 11.4% of total accidents in 2015, from 10.9% in 2014, according to road...
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Modernising Madrasas: Govt Spends Rs 1,000 Cr In 7 Years
Muslim children read the Koran at a madrasa in the northern Indian city of Mathura. The government increased the spending on the Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM), launched in...
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One Nation + One Tax = $137 Billion For GST
A truck driver next to his parked truck while waiting to get his loads cleared to cross a checkpoint at the Commercial Taxes Department check post at Walayar in Palakkad district in southern Indian...
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39 Military Air Crashes In 3 Years; 36 Lives Lost
As many as 39 military aircraft crashes—including trainer aircraft and helicopters— were reported over the last three years, killing 36 defence personnel, according to data released by Defence...
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As Human Trafficking Rises 60%, 6 Reasons New Bill Falls Short
Destitute girls study in a school’s anti-trafficking unit run by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. Human-trafficking cases rose from 3,422 to 5,486 between...
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2,417 Terror Attacks In Assam Over 9 Years
Army personnel check bags left by militants in Kokrajhar on Aug 5, 2016. Source: Ministry of Home Affairs __ (Mallapur is an analyst with IndiaSpend.) We welcome feedback. Please write to...
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A Millets Revival Could Solve India’s Malnutrition Problem, Benefit Farmers
A farmer checks millet crops in his field on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. In the 1960s, the average annual per capita consumption of sorghum and millets was 32.9 kg, roughly...
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How Violence Contributes to Diseases Among Sex Workers
Anjana’s working life and downward spiral began before she turned 15. With an alcoholic father, mother and two younger sisters to support, Anjana (name changed to protect identity) started working...
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10,932 Companies Default On Provident Funds
The law prescribes 30 days as the limit to pay provident funds, an employee’s rainy day or retirement stash. Sanjaya Kumar has been waiting more than 1,800 days–five years–for the Rs 40,000 that an...
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321 Medical Stores For Poor In 8 Years. Govt Promises 3,000 In 8 Months
The government promised parliament it would open 3,000 medical stores for the poor in the next eight months, but no more than a tenth of that number have opened over the last eight years, according...
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Indian Population Growth Less Dependent On Religion, More On Development
Fertility rates in India are more closely related to education levels and the socio-economic development within a state, than to religious beliefs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of government...
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Tomato Prices Surge 48%, Potatoes 25%, Over 3 Months
Tomato prices increased 48% in the last three months from Rs 29 per kilogram in May to Rs 43 per kg in July, the government told parliament on August 9, 2016. The government released all-India...
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Cool Data Visualisation Reveals Extent Of Global Warming
Two newly released spiral visualisations of global-warming data reveal how human activities are linked to rising carbon-dioxide concentrations (CO2) and rising temperatures. Visualized by Robert...
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India’s Agriculture-Produce Losses Rs 92,000 Cr, 3 Times More Than...
Harvest and post-harvest loss of India’s major agricultural produce is estimated at Rs 92,651 crore ($13 billion), according to data published by the ministry of food processing industries on August...
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4 Years After Nirbhaya, Delhi Rapes Triple, Police Reforms Fail
Rapes reported have tripled. Instead of 33%, women are 8.4% of Delhi Police ranks. The biases of male officers are as evident as before, as occasional training is left to nonprofits. Expenditure on...
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