-The Hindustan Times Members of Parliament had increased their pension three-fold but a universal pension scheme for senior citizens has remained a piped dream. This is despite the UPA government’s promise before 2009 general elections of providing social security net for vulnerables, said National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy, while announcing a national campaign for demanding monthly old age pension of Rs. 2,000 or half of minimum wage of a state, whichever...
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60% of rural India lives on less than Rs 35 a day
-PTI About 60 per cent of India's rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure. "In terms of average per capita daily expenditure, it comes out to be about Rs 35 in rural and Rs 66 in urban India. About 60 per cent of the population live with these expenditures...
More »Socio-economic and caste census fails to even take off in bigger states-Devika Banerji
Nearly a year after the government started the ambitious socio-economic and caste census (SECC), no big state has begun the enumeration exercise that was touted as a one-stop solution to accurately identify the poor for distribution of social benefits. The delay could undermine the government's attempt to plug the leakages in the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) and delay the Food Security Bill expected to be implemented in November by at...
More »60% population always below average consumption level
-The Business Standard The average per capita expenditure of Indians cited in the preface to the consumption expenditure report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has added some new numbers to the poverty debate, prompting economists to warn against straightaway inferring poverty from the dreary figures. While the report itself was released last year, its preface by NSSO director-general J Dash is now reeling out new numbers which are keeping the...
More »India must “aggressively” address family Planning needs: UNFPA-Nita Bhalla
-Reuters NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - About 60 percent of Indian women have no access to family Planning services, giving them little control over their bodies and slowing efforts to boost human development indicators, said the head of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). Human development indicators cover health, education and living standards. India, Asia's third-largest economy, is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030. But, despite its impressive economic...
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