-Civil Society News, Gurugram THROUGHOUT the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic, the extent of the tragedy in India was mostly unknown. How many people had really died? Were they men or women? Information was anecdotal and speculative. This April, there were queues at crematoriums and burial grounds, but even as bodies piled up there were no reliable figures to go by. We now have some figures based on data-hunting...
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What the latest US census reveals about racial and ethnic diversity and what India can learn from it -Nikhil Pandhi
-Scroll.in A caste census would truly enable India to understand the demographic grammars through which caste is lived and experienced in everyday terms. At the outset, the recently released data from the 2020 United States census is historic for more reasons than one. The census findings on race and ethnicity, which are particularly significant, indicate that for the first time in America’s history, the White population, in absolute numbers, has declined. Between...
More »Ranchi shows how India’s biggest cycling lessons lie in its smaller cities -Swarna Dutt & Azra Khan
-Scroll.in About 50% of the households in the city owned a bicycle in 2011, as per the Census data. It is a common sight to see cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles jostling for space on the narrow streets of small Indian cities. While there is a popular notion that these cities are trying to replicate the mobility pattern of bigger cities, data tells a different story. While global cities are aiming to increase cycle...
More »India urgently needs a caste census – so why isn't the Modi government allowing one? -Shoaib Daniyal
-Scroll.in India runs massive policy programs based on caste. Yet refuses to collect data on them. This paradox means the government is working blind. On July 20, the Modi government told Parliament that it had decided to not conduct a caste census. The only caste-wise data the next census would collate would be on Dalits and Adivasis, the same as every census in independent India’s history. India’s largest caste bloc – the...
More »Civil Society Groups Write to President Opposing Population Control Bill
-TheCitizen.in There is no evidence of a population explosion in either India or Uttar Pradesh Women’s groups, health experts and civil society groups have written to the President of India raising concerns and opposing the Draft Uttar Pradesh Population Control Bill 2021. The bill’s main objective is to implement a two-child norm by punishing adults with more than two children, and rewarding those who comply. Following in the steps of BJP-governed Assam, the disincentives...
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