Nutrition
Previous national surveys had not collected nationally representative data on children between the age of 5 and 14 years. These populations received less attention than those who are considered to be more vulnerable (pre-school children and adolescents). School-age children are beneficiaries of the world’s largest school feeding programme (Mid-Day Meal Scheme, 2014). Obtaining representative data…
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Sanitation
Please click here to access the Report no 9 of 2021: Performance Audit of Ground Water Management and Regulation for the period 2013-18 (laid on the floor of the Parliament on 21 December, 2021). Kindly click here to access the press release by CAG dated 21 December, 2021. Please click here to access the key…
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Poverty and Unemployment
According to the paper entitled Wealth Inequality, Class and Caste in India 1961-2012 by Nitin Kumar Bharti, published on 20th November, 2018, World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics (please click here to access): • The present paper produces long-term wealth inequality series of India using survey data and correcting the top wealth distribution using the Forbes millionaires data….
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Nutrition
The Food and Nutrition Security Analysis, India 2019 report has attempted to analyse data from all three dimensions viz. food availability, accessibility and utilization to help the reader take stock of the food and nutrition situation in India over different periods of time. In supporting the monitoring of progress towards achieving the targets under SDG…
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Sanitation
The key findings of the CAG’s Report No.15 of 2018 – Performance Audit of National Rural Drinking Water Programme (published on 7th August, 2018) in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation are as follows (please click here to access): • The National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) was launched with the objective of providing adequate safe water for…
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Health
The key findings of the Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 (released in October 2022) by World Health Organization are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings • The case notifications of people newly diagnosed with TB in India were 16,67,136 in 2015, 17,63,876 in 2016, 16,49,694 in 2017, 19,08,683 in 2018, 21,62,323 in 2019, 16,29,301 in 2020, and…
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Education
Rural sanitation did not feature on the investment horizon during the first five plan periods as reflected in its negligible funding share. However, it received prominence from the Sixth Plan (1980-85) onwards amid the launch of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation decade in 1980, says the 51st Report of Standing Committee on Rural Development related…
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Rural sanitation did not feature on the investment horizon during the first five plan periods as reflected in its negligible funding share. However, it received prominence from the Sixth Plan (1980-85) onwards amid the launch of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation decade in 1980, says the 51st Report of Standing Committee on Rural Development related…
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KEY TRENDS • According to NSS 76th Round, the major source of drinking water of the household was hand pump in the rural areas and piped water into dwelling in the urban areas. About 42.9 percent of the households in the rural areas used hand pump as the principal source of drinking water and about 40.9…
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