-Press release by World Bank dated November 14, 2022 NEW DELHI: A new World Bank report estimates that India will need to invest $840 billion over the next 15 years—or an average of $55 billion per annum—into urban infrastructure if it is to effectively meet the needs of its fast-growing urban population. The report, titled “Financing India’s Urban Infrastructure Needs: Constraints to Commercial Financing and Prospects for Policy Action” underlines the...
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WHO report draws our attention to the human cost of non-communicable diseases
If you are not serious about non-communicable diseases, then this single piece of information is enough to scare you -- during 2019, almost two-third of deaths in India occurred due to such diseases i.e., NCDs. The newly released report by World Health Organization shows that out of the total deaths in 2019 in our country, about 28 percent were caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), 10 percent by cancers, 12 percent by chronic...
More »Various estimates point towards one conclusion – the number of poor Indians swelled in 2020
The newly released World Bank report has estimated that the number of extremely poor people globally went up by nearly 71 million in the year 2020 as compared to 2019 — a 11 percent increase. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of poor swelled by around 56 million in India. It means that about 79 percent of the total people globally who slipped into poverty during the first year of...
More »Results of a survey in 4 states reveals how MGNREGA protected the poor from income shocks during the pandemic
-Press release by Azim Premji University dated October 13, 2022 New Delhi & Bangalore, October 13: About 39 percent of all jobcard-holding households interested in working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 did not get a single day of work in the Covid year of 2020-21. Also, on average, only 36 per cent of households that worked received their wages in 15 days, showed a survey of...
More »Jharkhand records India's highest percentage of child marriage among girls
-PTI/ The Telegraph The survey is brought out by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs Infamous for witchcraft killings, Jharkhand has earned the disrepute of having the highest percentage of underage girls getting married, according to the latest demographic sample survey by the union home ministry. The percentage of girls getting married before attaining majority is as high as 5.8 in Jharkhand, according to the survey...
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