-Business Standard Scholars across the world had appealed for the survey reports, including one on household consumer expenditure. The Union government on Saturday released five sets of survey reports on key socio-economic trends, most of which were approved but withheld. The junked consumer expenditure survey was not among these. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the survey reports, ‘Household Social Consumption in India: Health’ and ‘Household Social Consumption in India:...
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Nearly 80 per cent Indian households without piped water connection -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth In rural India, close to 90 per cent households do not have piped connections One in every five or 21.4 per cent households in India has piped drinking water connections, as the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) 76th round. The situation is worse in rural India, where just 11.3 per cent households receive potable water directly at homes. In urban India, 40.9 per cent households have piped water connections....
More »Rural India open defecation free? Not quite, shows NSO survey report -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard Around 71.3 per cent of rural households and 96.2 per cent of urban households had access to toilets during 2018, according to the survey More than one-fourth of households in villages have no access to toilets, according to the latest official survey conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO). Around 71.3 per cent of rural households and 96.2 per cent of urban households had access to toilets during 2018, according to...
More »Swachh Bharat In The City -Himanshu Gupta
-The Indian Express Urban areas require a different approach to end open defecation. The Swachh Bharat Mission is being executed by two different ministries — the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation for rural areas and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for urban areas. In the rural areas, the major challenge was to change the mindset of the populace so that they would start using household toilets rather than...
More »What can be done to address the demand drought in our economy? -Suresh Seshadri
-The Indian Express Why tax sops are not enough? What can policy makers do? The story so far: A worryingly persistent slowdown dragged economic growth in India down to 5% in the fiscal first quarter, its weakest pace in more than six years. And while the recent weeks have seen the possible reasons for the slowdown, as well as the government’s policy measures to ostensibly help revive the economy being put under...
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