-Hindustan Times The Total Fertility Level (TFR) – defined as the number of children a woman is expected to have in her reproductive age (15-49 years) – in rural and urban India in 2019 has been estimated to be 2.3 and 1.7 Smaller rural families and an increase in working-age population -- these are some of the findings from the latest report of the Sample Registration System (SRS; for 2019) which was...
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Retail inflation rises to eight-month high at 6.07 per cent
-The Telegraph Analysts said inflationary management had become challenging now amid rising risks to growth Retail inflation rose to an eight-month high of 6.07 per cent in February and remained above the RBI’s comfort level for the second month in a row. Wholesale price inflation — the data was also released on Monday — remained in double digits at 13.11 per cent (February) for the 11th consecutive month. Analysts said inflationary management had become...
More »India’s MMR at 103; UP, MP, Assam, Chhattisgarh Still Above 150 – Higher Than SDG goal
-The Wire Science New Delhi: India’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has improved to 103 for the period between 2017 and 2019. However, despite an overall improvement, the ratio has remained the same for some states, according to the Sample Registration System’s (SRS) estimate released by the Registrar General of India. In some states, like West Bengal, Haryana and Uttarakhand, the ratio has worsened. As per the 2020 data, during the period of...
More »80% foreign medical graduates fail India’s licence exam. Here’s what they end up doing instead -Kritika Sharma and Abantika Ghosh
-ThePrint.in In 2019, 25.79% Indians cleared Foreign Medical Graduate Exam, a test aspirants with degrees from certain countries need to clear for practise in India. Figure was 14.68% in 2020 and 23.83% in 2021. New Delhi: Every year, thousands of Indians with medical degrees from foreign universities appear for the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) — a screening test conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) and mandated by the National...
More »Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections -Rahul Verma
-IndiaToday.in More women voted for the BJP than men in all four states that the party won in the recently concluded Assembly elections, according to the data. Here's why. The story of women voting in India has added one more puzzle for social scientists to decipher. In the past decade, the research largely focused on the increasing voter registration among women and their higher turnout rate at polling booths. The combined effect...
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