-The Indian Express The immediate cause for suspecting the genuineness of survey responses is the divergence in the estimates of households with access to toilets. Differences between survey estimates and comparable data from administrative sources are not surprising. The survey data are believed to present a more realistic view, especially when it relates to access to public goods and services. Generally, the distrust is more on administrative data from implementing agencies. While...

-The Indian Express As per the data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, IIT Madras tops the list with Suicides by seven students during this period. Twenty seven students across 10 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country have committed Suicide in the last five years, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed. As per the data provided by the Department of Higher Education working...

-The Indian Express The latest NCRB report does not enlist reasons for farmer Suicides. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs told Parliament last week that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) had done away with diversified data on farmer Suicides in its latest report as many states reported the figure to be “nil”, and hence recording reasons for the Suicides was “untenable”. However, an analysis of previous NCRB data shows that states...

-The Indian Express In Idukki and Wayanad districts, where the situation is more severe, the loans availed up to August 31, 2018, are being considered by the commission for debt relief and in other districts it is March 31, 2014. Thiruvananthapuram: Around 40,000 marginal farmers in Kerala have approached the State Agricultural Debt Relief Commission in the last five months, seeking a waiver of loans they have taken from cooperative banks,...

-The Indian Express The data shows that Maharashtra accounted for almost 40 per cent of all farmer Suicides in the country in 2016. Karnataka (1,212) was second on the list but still recorded 50 per cent less farmers’ Suicides than Maharashtra. After withholding data on incidents of lynchings, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released figures on farmers’ Suicides but with a key element from the previous edition missing this...