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New Cess Funds Toilets, Farmers, As Rs 1.3 lakh Cr Lies Unused
An open toilet in rural Chhattisgarh. More than 3.5 lakh toilets were built in the state in 2015-16. The term “SBC”–appearing on restaurant, telephone and club bills nationwide–refers to the Swachh...
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9 Reasons India’s Rising Credit-Card Debt Should Worry You
The rise in credit card outstandings in itself is not so much of a worry as much as two accompanying factors. First, industrial credit–or loans made to businesses or corporations–is not keeping...
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Swachh Bharat Urban-Toilet Plan 76% Behind Schedule
A public toilet which was recently built under the Swachh Bharat Mission in Delhi. * Of a target of 2.5 million household toilets in urban areas by March 2016, 24% (0.6 million) have been...
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Swachh Bharat Mission Fails March 2016 Urban-Trash Targets
Cleanliness drive in Pune as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission. No more than 17.6% of urban solid-waste (garbage) was processed as of March 2016, against a target of 30%, set last year under the...
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Worst Year Ever For MGNREGA, 23% Drop In Assets Created
Labourers work on a dried lake to try and revive it under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on the outskirts of Hyderabad. After spending about Rs 3.5 lakh crore...
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Half of India’s Homeless Children are Labourers
Sanjana, five, collects rubbish to be sold for recycling in an informal slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. Half of all children living on the street or from homeless families work for a...
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India’s Quiet Tide Of Childhood Obesity
Madurai: When 12-year-old Madhu (not his real name) was diagnosed as obese—he weighed 98 kg when his ideal weight was 55 kg—there were no obvious medical issues, except a faulty diet and lack of...
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Delhi’s Air Pollution Rose 23% During Second Odd-Even Phase
Air pollution levels in Delhi rose 23% during the second phase of the odd-even registration rule, from April 15 to April 29, over the previous 14 days (April 1 to April 14), based on an analysis of...
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6 Indicators of India’s Looming Demographic Disaster
India will need to generate 280 million jobs between now and 2050, the year when the working-age population (15 to 64) will peak, according to a new report, amid indicators that the country’s...
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Ageing India: South India Oldest, Northeast Youngest
India has long been described as a nation of young people—and that is true—but the country’s elderly (60+ years) population grew 27 million between 2001 and 2011, the largest increase (about 35%)...
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Maharashtra, Delhi Pay 53% Of India’s Income Tax
On 29 April 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced–for the first time ever in India–the release of income-tax data, which follows economist Thomas Piketty’s call for income-tax data...
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Land Reforms Fail, 5% Of India’s Farmers Control 32% Land
Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a 40-year-old state law that allows distribution of...
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33% of Lok Sabha by 2026 = Uttar Pradesh+Bihar+West Bengal
Devotees gather on the banks of river Ganga to perform rituals in Kolkata. If India’s parliamentary seats were to be re-allocated across states on the basis of population–the Constitution requires...
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Why India’s Construction Slowdown Threatens To Increase Poverty
The construction sector in India, which employed more than 44 million people at the end of 2010 (the last date for which official data are available), is witnessing a slowdown, affecting millions of...
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Women Run 14% Of Indian Businesses, Most Self-Financed
Richa Dubey’s profession–running an online retail business that connects artisans with consumers–may not appear unusual for a modern Indian woman, but newly released data indicate just how much...
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The Connection Between Self-Immolation and Domestic Violence
Indian men are twice as likely as women to kill themselves, but of all the methods of suicide, self-immolation is the only one that claims more women than men, according to national crime data. In...
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19 Million Women In India Have 7+ Child Births
As many as 19 million women in India have given birth to seven or more children, and 15 million (80%) of these women live in rural areas, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of recently released...
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5% Of Indian Marriages Inter Caste, In Mizoram, 55%
Christian-dominated Mizoram–87% of the population is Christian–has the most inter-caste marriages in India, a nation where 95% of Indians marry within their caste, according to this 2016 report from...
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Forest Fires Surge 30% In 2016
Forest fires over the first four months of 2016 surged 30%–20,667 fires were reported as on April 21, 2016 compared to 15,937 over 2015–according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha (lower house of...
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Education Not Diminishing India’s Preference For Boys
Young graduate mothers gave birth to 899 girls per 1,000 boys, lower than the national average of 943, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of Census data. Higher education levels have helped in...
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