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2015: First Time In 63 Years, Lok Sabha More Productive House
Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) performed better than the Rajya Sabha (upper house) in the year 2015, owing to the majority of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the lower house....
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2015: A Good Year For Defence—Or Was It?
The year 2015 witnessed a hike of nearly 10% in India’s defence budget, from Rs. 2.2 lakh crore ($33 billion) in 2014-15 to Rs. 2.4 lakh crore ($36 billion). Money for capital expenditure—to buy...
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Five Things That Should Worry India
1. With growth rate of 0.2% and 600 million Indians depending on it, agriculture remains in crisis The year 2015 began with unseasonal rainfall that damaged crops across 18 million hectares of...
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5 Things India Had Going For It
Temsutula Imsong wants to see a clean India, and, along with Darshika Shah, cleaned some of the filthiest ghats in Varanasi. Amid a year of conflict and controversy, India had some good things...
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IndiaSpend/FactChecker–The Year’s Most Popular Stories
At IndiaSpend, we do not like adjectives, we do not like opinion. Emotion is not our thing. Data are. Facts are. Reportage is. Using data as our core, we focus on topics of public interest, topics...
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4 Things That Could Change India In 2016
More people will be literate, on the Internet, linked to the national identification scheme and likely to receive electricity, especially from alternative-energy sources. The new year has many...
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Delhi’s Air Quality Data A Tweet Away
Even as the impact of New Delhi’s Odd-Even Formula on the capital’s air quality is debated, IndiaSpend’s #Breathe project launches a realtime Twitter feed of the Air Quality Data. Starting January...
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Child-Health Spending Soars, But 40 Million Indian Children Stunted
Here are some health statistics for Indian children five years or younger: 38.7% are stunted (below normal height for the age), 19.8% are wasted (underweight and short) and 42.4% are underweight....
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136 Terror Attacks In 27 Years, Punjab Leads
Indian security personnel stand guard outside the Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot in Punjab, India, January 2, 2016. The northern state of Punjab has witnessed 34 terror attacks over the...
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States That Keep Mothers Healthy Have India’s Healthiest Children
There was an estimated 23% decline in stunted children and 35% reduction in underweight children below the age of five, over eight years, according to a new report. The healthiest children in...
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Pollution Soars, Odd-Even Not Enough For Delhi
Delhi had one of its worst air-pollution days of the season on day four of the odd-even programme, indicating that the government will have to do much more to clean up the air of the world’s most...
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Mizoram Shows How Good Sanitation Can Reduce Child Malnutrition
The north eastern state of Mizoram has reported a 13 percentage-point decline in stunting (below normal height for the age) and five percentage points decline in underweight children (underweight...
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Costs Plunge, Consumers Go Solar, Bypass Grid
The price of solar energy has fallen by half over two years, with prices dropping from Rs 10-12 per unit to Rs 4.63 per unit in 2015, the price at which Sun Edison, a US company, offered to supply...
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In Indian Cities, Women Travel Slow, Men In A Rush
A year ago, I interviewed staff in a mall for a study that analysed how affordable it was to commute by public buses in Bangalore. While the purpose of this was to only understand travel patterns,...
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Delhi Air Quality Worsens 50% Week Into Odd-Even
Air-pollution levels in Delhi rose 50% during the first week (January 1 to 7, 2016) of the state government’s odd-even measure over the previous week (December 25 to December 31, 2015), according to...
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Nobel Laureates Spotlight India’s Invention Problem
Indian inventors were responsible for only one in six patents granted in the country over the past 10 years, according to an IndiaSpend analysis. The other five patents went to foreign companies...
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Patent Delays Threaten “Make In India”
A patent application takes, on average, six years to get approved in India, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of 68,000 patents granted over the past 10 years, a process that threatens the...
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India Largest Recipient Of World Bank Loans Over 70 Years
India is the largest recipient of loans from the World Bank, amounting to $102.1 billion, between 1945 and 2015 (as on July 21, 2015), according to the Bank’s lending report. While the...
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Cheap Imports Imperil A Million Rubber Farmers
Kottayam (Kerala): For 30 years, here in a humid, prosperous corner of south India, Joshy Joseph, a tall, well-built farmer, watched seven rubber-tappers he hired every year practice a rare skill:...
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Disaster Risks Grow, As India’s Cities Flounder
As India draws closer to announcing the first list of 20 smart cities, it would do well to put safety first and pay attention to a moribund 24-year-old law meant to convert ramshackle urban...
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