KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Eleven States And UTs Have No Functional Eye Banks: RTI Reply
-PTI/ TheWire.in States such as Tripura, Uttarakhand and Mizoram have just one functional eye bank, according to data. New Delhi: Eleven states and Union Territories, including Goa and Jammu and Kashmir, have no functional eye banks, according to official data. Doctors, however, underlined that such banks alone don’t serve the purpose as there is an increasing demand for eye donors, especially in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated the situation. According to...
More »Do We Know What has Happened to Poverty since 2011-12? -Himanshu
-The India Forum The government's lack of respect for national surveys on consumption has meant that the door has been opened to preparation of unofficial estimates on poverty made on questionable assumptions. Two such recent estimates highlight the need to resume collection of data to get a true picture of poverty The government of India does not seem to be interested in knowing how many poor there are in the country. The missing...
More »India Has Max Covid Deaths, Says WHO; Incorrect, Says Government -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com "India has consistently questioned WHO's own admission that data in respect of seventeen Indian states was obtained from some websites and media reports and was used in their mathematical model," the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. New Delhi: India has strongly refuted the World Health Organisation's use of mathematical model to calculate the number of Covid deaths, saying the "figure is totally removed from reality". Contending that the country...
More »In Setback for India, WHO Disagrees With Govt Data on COVID Deaths -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * Soon to be released WHO data has estimated that at least four-times as many people died during the COVID-19 pandemic as India has officially recorded. * According to a report published late last month, Indian government officials disputed the WHO’s claim and asked that the data release be delayed by 10 years. * The WHO has cited an obligation on its part to release the data, and told The Wire Science...
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