-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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The changing nature of public employment -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line/ Macroscan.org Indian labour force surveys indicate an increase in public employment, but very little of this is increase in good quality jobs. Instead, most new jobs are of underpaid women workers without proper conditions. Please click here to Access the article. ...
More »Open defecation-free India: National Statistical Office survey debunks Swachh Bharat claims -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Only 71% of rural households had Access to toilets at a time the Centre was claiming 95% The latest National Statistical Office (NSO) survey on sanitation debunked the claims of an open defecation-free or ODF India made by the Centre’s flagship Swachh Bharat scheme, although it did record great progress in toilet Access and use in rural areas. The survey, released on Saturday, showed that about 71% of rural households had...
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 »The poisoned landscapes of Punjab -Tejinder Kaur & Anil Kishore Sinha
-India Water Portal Excessive and unregulated pesticide use has not only poisoned the soil, water and environment in villages in Punjab’s Malwa region – it has also increased health risks for the people Punjab, riding high on pesticides Pesticide use continues to be very high in agriculture in India, where estimated annual production losses due to pests amount to approximately US$ 42.66 million per year. Pesticides are chemical compounds that kill pests such...
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