-Press Information Bureau (Election Commission) General Elections are held to elect representatives for Lok Sabha after normally, every five years. Every election requires a huge amount of resources and efforts, be it planning, labour, technology, and for that matter, money. From the first Lok Sabha Elections in 1951-52 till the fifteenth in 2009, it has been a long journey for democracy. Government's expenditure on an elector has gone up manifold, twenty...
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Maternal Mortality down but nowhere close to MDG target
A nation's prosperity is determined to a large extent by the health care received by its female population. India's maternal mortality is down but we still have miles to go before we come close to achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets (Please see the links and GRAPh below). The latest available figures released by the Office of Registrar General (India) provide some interesting trends on maternal health indicators. It...
More »Gender-Wise Composition of the Indian Electorate
-Press Information Bureau (Election Commission) The electoral data as per the final publication of summary revision 2014 released by the Election Commission of India on 14th February, 2014 shows that out of a total of 814,591,184 electors in the country, male electors constitute 52.4%, female electors 47.6% and electors belonging to the category "Others" constitute 0.0035%. Among the 28 states and 7 union territories, 21 states/UTs have a higher proportion of...
More »A Snapshot of the Indian Electorate for the 2014 General Elections
-Press Information Bureau (Election Commission) The electoral data as per the final publication of summary revision 2014 released by the Election Commission of India on 14th February, 2014 shows that there are a total of 814,591,184 registered electors in the country. Out of this, the 28 states together accounts for 98.27% of electors while the 7 Union Territories together accounts for the remaining 1.73%. Among the UTs, the National Capital Territory...
More »Unsatisfactory decline in child mortality: SRS 2012
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Probably, this can be said about the ‘Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2012', which carries the latest figures on the social sector by far. The report has provided some interesting trends in child mortality indicators for India and its bigger states during 2012 (see the links below). It says that states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, which have consistently...
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