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Top 10% of Urban Indian Households has 7,517 Times the Assets of the Bottom Decile

The average value of assets (AVA) of the top ten percent of urban households in India is more than seven thousand five hundred times greater than what the bottom ten percent owns. The AVA of the top decile was Rs. 1.5 crores, while the lowest decile owned an average of Rs. 2,000 of assets. The data is part of the All India Debt and Investment Survey - 2019, the survey for...

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How State Family Database Projects Pose Dangers Of In-Depth Citizen Profiling And Exclusion - Sarasvati NT

Medianama The Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) floated a second tender in December 2022 for implementation and maintenance of a Master Data Management and de- duplication tool for a State Family Database (SFDB) project. The objective is to assign the ‘Makkal ID’— a unique identification number already allotted to the state’s seven crore residents— to different records across departments. The SFDB is projected to be the “single source of truth” of all...

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Chhattisgarh: Mining & Allied Activities Promises In INC’s 2018 Election Manifesto Yet to be Implemented

-Press release by Mineral Inheritors Rights Association dated August 4, 2022  The promises made by the INC during the 2018 elections for the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly in the Mining and Allied Activities portion of their manifesto are yet to be implemented. Four years have passed, and the Indian National Congress (INC) has yet to implement any of the five promises stated in the Mining & Allied Section of their 2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative...

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Inequality worries bigger than what NFHS illustrates -Abhishek Jha

-Hindustan Times In the first of a five-part data journalism series based on National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) data, HT's data and political economy team finds that India's inequality problem is far sharper than what is made out by the data The fifth round of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS), conducted between June 2019 and May 2021 was among the biggest in India. It was conducted in all of...

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Kachchh camels’ custody: ships of the deserted -Jaideep Hardikar

-RuralIndiaOnline.org Maharashtra police detained five traditional herders from Kachchh on January 7 suspecting these semi-nomadic pastoralists were smuggling camels to slaughterhouses in Hyderabad. Also detained: 58 camels “We have not confiscated these 58 camels,” asserts Inspector Ajay Akare, in charge of the Talegaon Dashasar police station in Amravati district. “We don’t have the powers to do so since Maharashtra has no specific law against cruelty to these animals.” “The camels,” he says, “are...

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