-Livemint.com Let’s not discredit the findings of statistical surveys that are conducted among real respondents The uncomfortable truth that emerged from the leaked report of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) is that rural poverty increased substantially between 2011-12 and 2017-18 for the first time in five decades. That this happened during a period of claimed high growth should have led to more research on what went wrong. Instead, there have been attempts...
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Uttar Pradesh: 1 litre milk diluted with one bucket Water served to over-80 students in Sonbhadra school
-The Indian Express A video surfaced on social media, which shows a cook at the Salai Banwa Primary School in Kota village boiling Water in a large aluminum container before adding milk from a one-litre tetra pack. In Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, a bucket of Water was allegedly mixed in one litre of milk to feed around 81 students at a local school as part of the mid-day meal programme on...
More »12% of urban India relies on bottled Water, 1 in 4 homes has a purifier -Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express As per the report, Delhi tops the list of 36 states and UTs in the use of electric Water purifiers — 36.5 per cent of households in the capital rely on one to treat drinking Water. An estimated 12.2 per cent of urban households rely on bottled Water for their drinking Water needs — up from 2.7 per cent 10 years ago. The finding is part of the...
More »Punjab groundWater crisis: What it will take to move from paddy to maize -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express At current rates of depletion, Punjab’s entire subsurface Water resource could be exhausted in a little over two decades. Jalandhar: As the discussion around Punjab’s massive groundWater crisis becomes more urgent, there is an increasingly stronger accent on diversification of crops, and a move away from Water-guzzling paddy. At a meeting over the weekend, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, decided to strengthen maize — the most important alternative to...
More »India is not REALLY open-defecation free, but again, people may have lied: NSO report
-Financial Express An overwhelming number of Indians have claimed that they don’t have access to toilets, poking holes in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion of India having become open-defecation free under Swachh Bharat. But the NSO, which conducted the survey, also said that the respondents could not be fully trusted, and that they may have lied to underreport the access to toilets. About 30% of rural households lacked access to toilets...
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