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Dutch Warn: Rs 322-Crore/Km Mumbai Highway May Be A “Disaster”
At a public meeting convened by the Mumbai Waterfronts Centre (MWC) on June 24, the Dutch Consul in Mumbai, Arend Gouw, said that the city’s ambitious, expensive Rs 11,300-crore coastal road, if not...
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Mathuranpura And The World’s Worst Groundwater Crisis
A woman gathers water from a natural underground tunnel, in Khanna kasba, 40 km from Mahoba town in UP’s Bundelkhand region. Image: Khabar Lahariya. Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh: Here in Mahoba, one of...
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Northern, Western States Hold Key To Stabilising Population
With a total population of more than 1.2 billion people and growing, India’s population is set to stabilise after 2026, meaning, it will eventually stop increasing. For now, India is the...
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670 Million In Rural Areas Live On Rs 33 Per Day
75% of rural households in India have a monthly income of less than Rs 5,000 ($79) 51% of households make a living from manual labour 28% (over 50 million) of households do not have mobile...
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Wars, Water Shortages & Heat Waves: Are You Prepared ?
Lives, properties and economies stand to be affected by climate change as we understand it. While debates on the significance and impact of climate change rage furiously, a new multi-nation study...
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India: Make-Or-Break Player For Climate Change
Earlier this month, the U.N.’s climate chief Christina Figueres told the media that an Indian pledge to voluntarily cut carbon emissions is “critically important” to any meaningful agreement at a...
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90% Of Toilet Target Ahead, 4 Years To Go
Of more than 110 million rural households without toilets across India in 2012, the government has been able to assist 11 million households in building toilets. That means, nearly 99 million...
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Tamil Nadu, Kerala Lead Surge In Financial Inclusion
As many as 45 of India’s top 50 districts that offer affordable, formal financial services are in four south Indian states—with 30 concentrated in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—according to CRISIL Inclusix,...
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Rural India Healthier Than Urban India, Malayalees Sickest
As much as 86% of the rural population and 82% of the urban population is without health-expenditure support. The average medical expenditure for treating one ailment without being admitted to...
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6 Hurdles To Building 44,000 Homes A Day
Less than seven years are left for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Housing for All scheme aimed at providing a home to all the urban poor by 2022—especially as cities grow and migrants flow...
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How India Lags China In Submarine Race
INS Kalvari, the Indian Navy’s first Scorpene-class submarine, before it was undocked in Mumbai on April 6, 2015. A recent visit by an advanced Chinese Yuan-class submarine to Karachi, Pakistan,...
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Dodgy Data: Farm Suicides Drop 67% In 6 Years
With 25 farmers in Karnataka committing suicide in June, it appears evident that rural India is in distress–the long-term cause, a growth rate of almost zero (0.2%), and the immediate cause, crop...
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UP’s Deepwater Crisis Grows 9 Times In 11 Years
A sign of how much groundwater levels have fallen in Uttar Pradesh. Image: Gaon Connection/Shubham Srivastava Aligarh District (Uttar Pradesh): Over the past three years, Sukhdev Garg, a...
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Why Malnutrition Remains A Challenge For India
India has reduced malnutrition, but it is 27% worse than Brazil, 26% worse than China and 21% worse than South Africa. Rural areas have seen more declines in percentages of malnourished children...
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Drowning: An Unknown Public-Health Disaster
It is reasonably well known that India has the world’s deadliest roads, with traffic accidents accounting for 53% of unnatural deaths in 2014. What isn’t as well known is the second major cause of...
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Shut Out: India’s Poor, Urban Children—Part I
A child from a poor, urban family is 40% more likely to die than a richer child in India’s towns and cities. Children below 10 in urban areas—especially girls—are 20% more likely to be sick than...
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Shut Out: India’s Poor, Urban Children—Part II
Child labour in India’s urban areas increased 53% over the decade between 2001 and 2011. In the age group five-to-nine years, the number of girls put to work increased 240%, boys 154%. Urban India...
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80% Assurances Made To Parliament Pending
It’s not just promises made to citizens, the Centre has failed to implement assurances made to the Parliament as well, according to data compiled by Factly.in, a data-journalism portal. More than...
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10 Years: 1,303 Death Sentences, 3 Executions
A sand sculpture in Odisha of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, who was secretly hung by India in November 2012 for being part of the 2008 attack on Mumbai. A death sentence–such as the one handed to Yakub...
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Urban India and its Female Demographic Dividend
Over the past decade, India has been near the bottom of the global rankings, as far as female participation in the urban workforce is concerned. The good news: our analysis of data from the past two...
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