A recent report of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) brings forth the dichotomy between digital divide and India’s transition towards a cashless economy. The rural-urban divide in access to computer and internet is quite stark, according to the report entitled 'Key Indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India, July 2017 to June 2018'. The 75th round National Sample Survey (NSS) report on education finds that...
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The many problems of delayed data -RK Raghavan
-The Hindu What the NCRB can do to present more time-bound and accurate data on crime In The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie wrote: “I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.” It is appropriate to remember this statement when we discuss the crime scene in any part of the world. This is because crime statistics offer...
More »More unemployed and self-employed people committed suicide than farmers in 2018, show NCRB data
-PTI Students and un-employed victims accounted for 7.6% (10,159) and 9.6% (12,936) of total suicides respectively. At least 35 unemployed and 36 self-employed people on an average ended their lives every day in 2018, with the two categories together accounting for 26,085 suicide deaths during the year, according to official data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Unemployed persons (12,936) were slightly behind those self-employed (13,149) who took their own lives,...
More »So easy to copy? Rs 2,000 notes make 56% of all seized fake currency, shows NCRB data -Mukesh Rawat
-IndiaToday.in NCRB data show fake notes of Rs 2,000 entered the market days after PM Narendra Modi's demonetisation announcement. Today they are the biggest contributors to the value of seized counterfeit currency in India. "In a country's history, there come moments when every person feels he too should be part of that moment, that he too should make his contribution to the country's progress. Such moments come but rarely," said Prime Minister...
More »The hollow relief of fewer farmer suicides
-Livemint.com New government data show India saw fewer cases of farmers taking their lives in 2018 than the year before. But this doesn’t mean rural distress is down. Much needs to be done It is tempting to relate the decline in the number of farmer suicides in 2018, as reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), to an abatement in rural distress. Such a temptation should, however, be tempered. There have...
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