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A latest study conducted by researchers from NCAER says that JSY has helped in reducing the
socioeconomic inequalities as well as it has led to an enhancement in the utilisation of health services
among all
groups especially among the poorer and underserved sections in the rural areas.
The study was conducted using data from two rounds of the India Human Development Survey
(IHDS)
conducted in 2004-05 and 2011-12, providing a before-after scenario for comparison.

The World Economic Forums (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016 was released recently.
India has substantially improved its rank in the Global Gender Gap index- moving from 108th to 87th
position within a year, according to a report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The CBI records filed in the Supreme Court in the case

show that only 2,90,787 NGOs file annual financial
statements of a total of 29,99,623 registered ones
under the Societies Registration Act. In the Union
Territories, of a total of 82,250 NGOs registered and
functioning, only 50 file their returns

A Intelligence Bureau report, Concerted efforts by select foreign-funded NGOs to take down Indian
development projects, in 2014 alleged that several foreign-funded environmental NGOs were targeting
development projects across the country. This report says ~2% of GDP is lost due to these activities

The World Bank has released new estimates that show that fewer than one in 10 people are now living
in
extreme poverty
India has been the biggest contributor to poverty reduction between 2008 and 2011, with around 140
million or so lifted out of absolute poverty

However, even this remarkable feat is not enoughthe report says that in 2011, India accounted for
30% of
those living in extreme poverty in the world

India has been ranked 87th ou t of 144 coun tri es on the World Economic Forums
(WEF) Global Gend er Gap R ep ort 2016.
India has climbed 21 spots from 108th position in 2015.
The report measures gender gap as progress towards parity between men and
women in four areas (i) Edu cati onal attain ment, (ii ) Heal th an d survi val , (i ii )
Economi c opp ortun ity an d (i v) Pol i ti cal emp owerment.

As per the National Crime Records Bureau, reported cases of domestic violence in
India went up from 50,703 in 2003 to 1,18,866 in 2013.

A study conducted by the World Health Organisation and made public in September 2016 revealed that
air
pollution could have killed at least 600,000 Indians in 2012

The World Bank in July, 2010 estimated the size of the shadow economy for India at 20.7% of the GDP in 1999 and rising to
23.2% in 2007.

Population growth will not be in the core city. It will mainly be concentrated in semi urban or rural areas
surrounding
or adjacent to the core city. Interestingly, this has also been confirmed by the World Bank in its report
Urbanization
Beyond Municipal Boundaries.

In 2015, India was ranked 76th out of 168 countries in Transparency

International's Corruption Perceptions Index, compared to its neighbours Bhutan
(27th), Bangladesh (139th), Myanmar (156th), China (83rd), Nepal (130th), Pakistan
(117th) and Sri Lanka (83rd).

CAG report said that of the constructed toilets, around 30 per cent were found to be dysfunctional.

According to the World Bank, poor sanitation causes India economic losses amounting to
6.4% of Indias GDP in 2006 or USD 53.8 billion (Rs. 2.4 trillion) per year, which is equivalent to
USD $43 for every Indian per year

The 172nd Law Commission Report also suggested forced sexual intercourse by a husband with his wife
should be treated equally as an offence just as any physical violence by a husband against the wife is
treated as an offence.

But the SQUAT survey conducted by r.i.c.e found that 40 per cent of households that have a working
latrine have at least one person who regularly defecates in the open.

The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has projected that

the global annual seawater temperature would rise by 0.8 to 2.5o C by 2050

Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) has been quite vocal in its critic of gender unjust laws
within the personal law. A study conducted by BMMA titled Seeking Justice within Family: A
National Study on Muslim Womens Views on Reforms in Muslim Personal Law highlighted the
felt need of Muslim women for bringing in justice within the personal law. It has come out with a
Codified Muslim Family Law. Among its demands includes: a) increase in age of marriage for
girls and boys to 18 and 21, b) total bank on oral, unilateral and triple divorce, c) no to
polygamous marriage, d) compulsory registration of marriages, e) maintenance support for wife
and children during marriage, separation and divorce, f) rules for custody of children in the
event of divorce based on the principle that mother and father are natural guardians of the
child. Though within the personal law, they do stand with instances of gender justice to an
extent.

its 262nd Report in August 2015, recommended the abolition of the death penalty in phases, beginning
with ending it for all offences except those related to terrorism.

it is 1:1674 as against the WHO norm of 1:1000 ( doctors number)

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 indicates how this linear
approach hasnt reaped the benefits it should have; learning levels of students are still a
huge concern, According to the survey, almost 50% of Class V students were not able to
read basic sentences, and more than 70% were unable to perform simple
division.
The XV Joint Review Mission conducted by the Ministry of Human Resource
Development (2012) highlighted that there were 25% vacancies in programme
management personnel for elementary education at the state level, and this figure
was 46% at the block leve
India needs 23 million jobs annually, according to a Kotak Securities report,
but over the last 30 years, the country has created about 7 million jobs every year

According to WHO estimates, about 5 lakh deaths occur in India alone due to unclean
cooking fuels. Experts say having an open fire in the kitchen is like burning 400
cigarettes an hour

Columbia university, as many as 95 per cent of LPG-deprived

households cite their inability to pay as a barrier to their adopting LPG.
its 245th report, a rate of disposal method should be adopted in
which the number of judges required at each level to dispose of a particular number of cases could be
computed based on analysis.

WHO estimates that at least 600,000

deaths are being caused annually in
India by fine particulate matter
pollution in the air
The condition of dalits bettered only marginally and data from the Economic Census show that as late as
2005, Scheduled Casted owned just 9.8 percent of the 42 million enterprises that employ around 99
million
people, while they have a share of 16.4 percent in the population
The present UNICEF Report says that at least 1 million children under the age of 5 die
due to malnutrition.

Indias Oil Import scenario

India is currently the thirdlargest oil importer in the
world, relying on imports for 76
per cent of its oil needs
The International Energy Agency
projects that this would rise to
around 90 per cent by 2030 as
Indias demand continues to
increase

The 2016 WDR issue titled Digital Dividends,

noted that almost 1.063 billion Indians were offline
even though India ranked among the top five
nations in terms of the total number of Internet
users, along with China, the U.S., Japan and Brazi
A report on Doing Business (2015) by World Bank
mentions that in Mumbai, a company needs to complete 13 procedures and to spend
almost 30 days just to complete the basic formalities for starting a business.
According to a recent study by Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, India is the cheapest country
to fly 100 km among 43 countries sampled from across the globe
Boston Consultancy Groups study in 2007 had clearly indicated that by 2020 while India will
have surplus of 56 million working people, the rest of the world will encounter a shortage of 47
million working people

Also, a 2015 United Nations report

said India had one of the world's most skewed sex ratios in the under-five age
group. The report added that 100 girls die by the age of five, compared with 93
boys

Forecasts of International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate energy from

renewables is expected to overtake coal by the early 2030s

As per the study conducted by ministry of new and renewable energy

(MNRE), Indias solar power potential is as high as 748 GW, against our
countrys cumulative installed capacity from all sources at around 275 GW
The figures published by the National Crime Record Bureau are appalling:
a total of 1,86,986 murder cases were brought to trial in the year 2012
(including previous cases) but trials were completed only in 21,653 cases.

India is the worlds largest weapons importer over a five-year period

according to latest report of the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) on global arms purchases released recently.
The Greenpeace study found e-waste growing at 15% annually and
projected it to go up to 800,000 tonnes by 2012. But it stood at 1.7 million
tonnes in 2014, the fifth highest in the world, according to a UN study.
The Global TB Report 2016, recently released, has revised the estimates for the
tuberculosis (TB) burden in India The country has 27 per cent of the global
burden of incident tuberculosis and 34 per cent of global TB deaths. For the year
2015, the updated estimate of incidence (new and relapse TB cases per year) is
2.8 million cases.

According to som e re cent re ports, it ha s bee n observed a bo ut 90% increa se in traffick ing be twee n
2008 to 2014.

All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE)- an annual survey by department of higher
education in the human resources development ministry.
According to it, there are 38,000 colleges and 767 universities in India.
There are 1.4 million teachers and 33 million students enrolled in these
universities.
Gross Enrolment Ratio- the percentage of population 18-23 enrolled in college, is
23.6% for India. It widely varies from 12% for Bihar to 44% for Tamil Nadu.

According to re sea rch re po rt by W orld Bank , a utom a tio n has thre ate ne d about 69% jobs in India

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found some violations of guidelines
and irregularities in the implementation of MPLADS scheme during 2004-05 to 200809, Parliament was informed today.

The 196th report of the Law Commission of India spoke in favour of passive euthanasia

Central Electricity Authoritys (CEA) report,

Transmission & Distribution losses in the country for the year 2012-13 stood at 23.04%.

By 2020, India is set to become worlds youngest country with 64% of its population in
the working age group. (Report: State of the Urban Youth, India 2012: Employment,
Livelihoods and Skills)

According to Shome Panel, in

the last 10 years though the direct tax collection has increased by more than 700%, the number of
tax payers has merely grown by 35%

rangarajan committee has mentioned that in India millions of people would come
under BPL category every year due to high out of pocket expenditure.

The Boston Consulting Groups 15th annual report, Winning the Growth Game: Global Wealth
2015, has received extensive coverage in the Indian media. T he report comes on top of
the Global Wealth Databook 2014 from Credit Suisse, which provides a much more accurate
and comprehensive picture of the trends in global inequality.
The Global Wealth Databook reveals some startling facts. T he richest 1 per cent of Indians
today own nearly half (49 per cent) of Indias personal wealth. T he rest of us
99 per cent are left to share the remainder among ourselves

Official data on all indicators of development reveal that Indias tribal people are the worst off in
terms of income, health, education, nutrition, infrastructure and governance. They have also
been unfortunately at the receiving end of the injustices of the development process itself.
Around 40 per cent of the 60 million people displaced following development projects in India
are tribals, which is not a surprise given that 90 per cent of our coal and more than 50 per cent
of most minerals and dam sites are mainly in tribal regions

New data from the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) show that average asset holding of

the bottom 10% of urban Indian households is around Rs. 291.

India set to seize big opportunity in logistic costs saving through Sagarmala
A new report by Ministry of Shipping has said that Sagarmala project can save up to Rs 35,000-40,000
crore by 2025 per annum
for India by optimizing logistics flows for key commodities. The study says that augmenting operational
efficiency of ports and
optimizing logistics evacuation can be a big boost to Indian trade

Analysis by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) shows that unless the
government restructures the market price of kerosene, the price differential between
unsubsidised kerosene and diesel would be in the range between Rs.18 and Rs.32 per litre
varying across States

The CEEWs analysis of National Sample Survey Office data highlights that kerosene is
predominantly used as a lighting fuel in rural India, with less than 1 per cent of households using
it as a primary cooking fuel. In urban-poor households, it is used for both lighting and cooking.
A recent report by the CEEW shows how shifting from kerosene to alternatives such as solarassisted solutions for lighting and LPG for cooking could be economically beneficial for both the
government as well as households. The shift would provide households with much better endservices and avoiding the adverse health impacts associated with kerosene use. Our analysis
suggests that such a transition could result in an annual saving between Rs.8,000 and Rs.12,000
crore to the exchequer. Moreover, there is a bottom-up demand for such a change. T he largest
energy access survey in India, conducted by the CEEW and Columbia University, U.S., shows
that 78 per cent of rural households in six major States are willing to adopt solar-based lighting
solution in lieu of a reduction in their kerosene subsidy.

According to a report, the USs security assistance to Pakistan has declined by 73% since 2011 due to
the deterioration in ties
following the killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. The report prepared by the Congressional
Research Service (CRS) covers
both military and economic assistance given between 2002 and 2015 as well as those earmarked for
fiscal years 2016 and 2017.

A total of 3,068 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) received foreign funding above Rs. 22,000
crore in 2014-15, according to
government data presented in response to a question in Parliament.

The number of wild tigers has gone up globally by 22 per cent to 3,890, from the earlier 2010 estimate
of
3200, based on the best available data, according to the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Tiger Forum
(GTF)

The latest Socio-Economic Caste Census data reveals that 1, 80, 657 households are engaged in this
degrading work for a
livelihood.

A study carried out by researchers at IIT Bombay has found that extreme rainfall events over India do
not have significant
association with land surface air temperature over India and sea surface temperature over the central
Indian Ocean.

WHO report sounds alarm on doctors in India

The report of a study titled The Health Workforce in India was recently released. The study
was conducted
by the WHO. The data for each district in the country from the 2001 census were specially
extracted for this
study, which provided a comprehensive picture of health workers in each district.
Highlights:
Almost one-third (31%) of those who claimed to be allopathic doctors in 2001 were

educated only
up to the secondary school level and 57% did not have any medical qualification.

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The situation was far worse in rural India, where just 8% of allopathic doctors had a

medical
qualification.
Female healthcare workers

38% of the total were found to be more educated and

medically
qualified than their male counterparts.
Ignoring those who dont have a medical qualification, there are

36 doctors per lakh

population in India.
As for nurses and midwives, India had 61 workers per lakh population compared to 96 in
China. The
number reduced tenfold to 6 per lakh population, if only those with a medical qualification were

considered.
There is substantial variation in the density of health workers across States and districts.
For
instance, Kerala had 38.4% of the countrys medically qualified nurses but constituted only 3.1%
of the
total population. Similarly, West Bengal had 30.6% of all homoeopathic doctors in the country
but only
7.8% of the population. Better-off States seemed to afford more doctors plus nurses per capita.
District-wise, the inequalities were massive. The density of allopathic doctors with any level

of
education in the lowest 30 districts half of which were in north-eastern States and the other
in
central States was a little over 4 per lakh of the population whereas, in the highest 30

districts, it
was 159 per lakh of population.
In the case of dentists, the situation was even worse. The

national density of dentists was

extremely
low at 2.4 per lakh population, with 58 (of the total 593) districts having no dentists at all in
2001. In
fact, 175 districts (30%) had no dentists with a medical qualification.

India ranks 110th on Sustainable Development index

India has ranked a low 110 out of 149 nations assessed on where they stand with regard to
achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new sustainable development index.

According to a recently released report, the textile industry in the country is unlikely to create
more jobs along
with the growth in the industry.
What the report says?
Textile and apparel industry in India is likely to create only 29 lakh jobs compared to the
governments target of
one crore new jobs, even as the sectors market size is expected to grow by 40% to $142 billion
in the next five
years

New numbers released from Census 2011 show that literacy among disabled has increased in the
country.
Highlights:
More than half of the total disabled population in India are now literate. The literacy rate among the
disabled has increased from 49.3% in 2001 to 54.5% in 2011. However, this is significantly lower than
the
overall literacy level of India which stands at 74%.
As per a World Bank report, 69% of the jobs in India are at a higher risk of being replaced by
automation.
Also, according to the report, absence of FTAs with the EU, Australia and Canada, almost 55 lakh
jobs are
lost to added exports that would have been generated if the FTAs were signed

The National Sample Survey Office has released data from its 2011-12 round on education and
vocational training.
According to the report, the union government will have its work cut out on skill
development, as just over one in 10 adults reported having received any vocational
training, and the bulk of it was informal.
What the data say?
Among persons in the 15-59 age group, about 2.2% reported to having received formal
vocational training and 8.6% non-formal vocational training. The non-formal variety
mainly comprised the passing down of hereditary skills, or on-the-job training.

During the last decade (2001-11), the growth rate of the labour force (2.23 per cent)
was significantly higher than the growth rate of employment (1.4 per cent), which itself
was several-fold less than the growth rate of the economy. According to Census 2011,
the average growth rate of the economy was 7.7 per cent per annum, when it was only
1.8 per cent for employment.
66th round of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data on employment in
2011 revealed that between 2004-05 and 2009-10, only 1 million jobs were added per
year; in a period when the economy averaged a record 8.43% growth annually.
An Indian Labour Bureau survey of 2015 showed that 2,000 companies in eight
sampled industries generated all of one lakh jobs, a fall from the four lakh generated
in 2014, even though growth in 2014 was lower than in 2015.
A HDFC Bank report on Indias tapering jobs growth says that employment elasticity
in the economy is now close to zero for every one point rise in GDP, jobs grow only
0.15. Fifteen years ago, it was 0.39

Recently released Salary Index Report of online service

provider Monster highlights gender pay gap in India

The Census 2011 reveals that child marriage is

rampant in India, with almost one in every three
married woman having been wed while she was still
under the age of 18 years.

In 2011, the Naresh Chandra task force on national security recommended the
appointment of a permanent chairman, chiefs of staff committee

A single-point military advisors post in the form of Chief of Defence Staff was proposed by the Kargil
Review
Committee headed by K Subrahmanyam,

Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has shown

that enrolment in private schools has been increased
from 18.7% (2006) to 30.8% (2014).

SCs and STs are lagged behind in litercy rate from the
national average by a margin of 9% and 17.4%
respectively. In addition, female litercy rate is 19.4%
lesser than their male counterpart.

Indias disappointing performance in combating nutrition

issues is visible in The Global Nutrition Report
2016.

parliamentary standing committee in its 2015-16 report

held that regulation on use of pesticides in India need
to bone stringent. For this, insecticides act, 1968 need
to be appropriately amended.
CAG certification of net proceeds of taxes Centre
to the states according to the certification issued by
the CAG centre owes to the states over 80,000cr for
the period between 1996 and 2005.

With 478 posts out of a sanctioned strength of 1,079

high court judges lying vacant an unacceptable
44.3 per cent
e Narsimha Rao case, the SC arrived at the conclusion
that while bribe-givers could not claim immunity, the
bribe-takers could claim such immunity.

1994: Khoday Distilleries Ltd. v. State of Karnataka

The constitution bench of the Supreme Court had
questioned the existence of any
right to trade in alcoholic beverages
Justice P.B. Sawant: The State can
Prohibit completely the trade or business in potable
liquor since liquor as
beverage is res extra commercium
Create a monopoly in itself for trade or business in
such liquor
Place restrictions and limitations on such trade or
business which may be in
nature different from those on trade or business in
articles res commercium
Reflection- In the Kerala Bar Hotels Association case,
SC thus, held
the Abkari (excise) policy of the Kerala government to
being in conformity with the
right under Article 19(1)(g)

A.K.Sharma Committee on Minor Forest Produce:

T Haque Committee on minor forest produce
To operationalizing the MSP for selected MFPs, the
earlier Planning Commission had
suggested for Central Price Fixation Commission for
MFP as an autonomous body
under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Commercial Courts,
Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division
of High Courts Act, 2015.
The law creates commercial courts at the district
level to deal with commercial
disputes
The 253rd report of the Law Commission------ Of the
total of 32,656 civil suits pending in the five High Courts
with original

jurisdiction in India, we find that a little more than half

(16,884) or 51.7 per cent of
them are commercial disputes
Observations by MCKINSEY --- women
representation in workforce
The world can add $12 trillion to GDP in 2025, doubling
the contribution of women
to global growth in business-as-usual scenario in the
coming decade. India could
boost its GDP by $0.7 trillion in 2025 or 16 percent of
the business-as-usual level
(largest relative boost). This translates into 1.4 percent
per year of incremental GDP
growth for India
SC?ST students's position in colleges
SukhadeoThorat Report:
The three-member panel had worked on the report on
caste discrimination in the
classrooms and laboratories as well as hostels of the
premier AIIMS in New Delhi.

Findings:
84%: Expressed the need for, and absence of, remedial
coaching in English language and
basic courses
69%: Did not get adequate support and mentoring from
teachers
One-third: Gave caste background as reason
72%: Discrimination faced in teaching sessions
Report also spoke of
Forms of avoidance, contempt, non-cooperation,
discouragement and differential
treatment by teachers towards SC/ST students
Segregation in the allocation of rooms in hostels, in
sharing dining facilities, and
participation in cultural events and games
Slavery

Walk Free Foundations 2014 Global Slavery Index:

Defines modern slavery as any practice
that traps people in modern servitude, including human
trafficking and forced labour

child labour
India is a signatory to the:
ILO Forced Labour Convention (No. 29)
ILO Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (No. 105)
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (India has
ratified)
Gurupadswamy Committee:
In 1979; this committee was formed to study the
issue of child labour and
recommend measures to tackle the same
Pointed out that poverty remains the core issue
behind the issue

Need to ban children from working in hazardous

areas and a regulation needs to be
well placed for the working conditions
panchayati raj

Rajbala vs. State of Haryana case (2015)

Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Haryana
Panchayati Raj (Amendment)
Act,requiring that a matriculate alone can hold the post
of Panchayat president or ward
member
mental disorder
According to WHO, 1 in 4 persons suffers from mental
disorders in both developed and developing countries.

According to the report released by WHO, in 2012,

2,58,075 people committed suicide in India
As per the report The Future of Internet in India,
compiled by Nasscom and Akamai Technologies,

the number of Internet users in India is likely to more

than double to 730 million by 2020. As of December
2015, there were about 330 million Internet users in
the country.
India is ranked ninth in 2015 Crony-Capitalism Index
with crony sector wealth accounting for 3.4
per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
The index was based on new study by The Economist
which had used data from a list of the worlds
billionaires and their worth published by Forbes. In this
study each individual is labelled as crony or
not based on the source of their wealth

As per the latest annual report by the National

Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), almost all
states
have failed to honour their budgetary commitments
toward the SC community
228th report of the Law Commission of India also
recommended prohibiting commercial surrogacy and
allowing ethical altruistic surrogacy to needy Indian

citizens by enacting a suitable legislation.

Indians spent eight times more on private hospitals
and twice as much on transporting patients
compared to costs in government hospitals,
according to the National Health Accounts (NHA)
Estimates for the financial year 2013-2014.
The data was recently released by the Healt

As per the latest annual report by the National

Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), almost all
states
have failed to honour their budgetary commitments
toward the SC community.
. Earlier, in 2009, the Rakesh Mohan-led Committee on
Financial Sector Assessment had proposed that the RBI
should create a conducive environment for mergers and
amalgamations.
The merger of PSBs had been recommended even
earlier in 1998 by the M. Narasimham-led Committee
on Banking Sector Reforms
Household consumption data of NSSO suggests that
non-veggies have increased from 58.2 per cent in

2004-05 to 62.3 per cent in 2011-12.

NFHS-4, the sex ratio in many states in India has

significantly decreased.
The 11 states surveyed in the first phase were also
surveyed in the last NFHS of 2005-06. These are
Goa, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Tamil Nadu,
Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana,
Bihar, and West Bengal.
Highlights of the report:
In the past 10 years, the sex ratio has significantly
decreased in nine out of 11 states of India,
whereas womens literacy has gone up in each of
those states.
In these 11 states, on an average, there are 985
females per 1,000 males in 2015-16 compared to
1,000 females per 1,000 males in 2005-06.
Womens literacy has increased 12.15% in these 11
states.
Institutional deliveries children delivered in a
medical institution under supervision increased by
32.8% in the past 10 years. Madhya Pradesh,
Karnataka and Bihar saw a huge rise of 54.6%,
44.8% and 43.9%, respectively in institutional
deliveries.

Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, which had 1,078 and

1,028 females per 1,000 males in 2005-06, now
have only 1,033 and 979 females per 1,000 males,
respectively. Womens literacy increased 10% and
12%, respectively, in these two states.
The only state where the sex ratio rose was
Uttarakhand from 996 to 1,015 females per 1,000
males. Meghalaya saw its sex ratio stabilise at
1,005 females per 1,000 males. All other states saw
a disturbing fall in sex ratio.
Child marriages also saw a reduction in the same
time period 13.17% for females and 6.7% for
males in these 11 states.
The ministry of health and family welfare had
designated the International Institute for Population
Sciences, Mumbai as the nodal agency to conduct
NFHS-4.

U.N.'s 2011 Revision of the World Urbanization

Prospects' report says India will add another
497 million to its urban population between 2010 and
2050.
As per a report 'State of World Antibiotics 2015'
conducted by the Centre for Disease Dynamics,
Economics and Policy, New Delhi, India is counted as

the leading consumer of antibiotics. Reports have also

claimed that antibiotic resistance will kill 300 million
people by 2050
National employability Report 2014 had reported that
only 18% of engineering graduates are considered
employable. And only 24% of postgraduates are
employable
NASSCOM report says that, only 25% of technical
graduates and 15% of other graduates are employable
in IT and ITES industry ,it is estimated that IT industry
will require 2.3 million professional currently India has
only 1.5 million.
The Committee on Empowerment of Women in its Sixth
Report of the (2010-11) had
recommended urgent need to provide due
representation to women in paramilitary forces.
According to the first phase of the latest national family
health survey, known as NFHS-4, the
sex ratio in many states in India has significantly
decreased.
The 11 states surveyed in the first phase were also

surveyed in the last NFHS of 2005-06.

These are Goa, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Tamil
Nadu, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh,
Karnataka, Haryana, Bihar, and West Bengal.

Highlights of the report:

In the past 10 years, the sex ratio has significantly
decreased in nine out of 11 states of
India, whereas womens literacy has gone up in each of
those states.
India is ranked at the 89th position in the Global Talent
Competitiveness Index (GTCI) for the
year 2015-16.
The list has been compiled by the INSEAD business
school, in partnership with Adecco
and Human Capital Leadership Institute of Singapore
(HCLI).
It is released every year on the first day of the
World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual
Meeting

New data from the National Sample Survey Office

(NSSO) show that average asset holding of
the bottom 10% of urban Indian households is around
Rs. 291.

NFHS-4 data, the first official data in over a decade,

released recently shows that Indian states
have seen some improvements in child nutrition over
the last decade, but over one in three
children is still stunted, and over one in five
underweight
India has far fewer doctors than the WHO
recommended minimum doctor population ratio of
1:1000
Home to over 100 million elderly people and with
numbers further expected to increase threefold
in the next three decades India has many challenges to
be addressed.
About 75 crore Indians, especially women and girls, are
exposed to severe household air

pollution (HAP) from the use of solid fuels such as

biomass, dung cakes and coal for cooking.
A report from the Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare places HAP as the second leading risk
factor contributing to Indias disease burden.
According to the World Health Organization, solid
fuel use is responsible for about 13% of
all mortality and morbidity in India (measured as
Disability-Adjusted Life Years), and causes
about 40% of all pulmonary disorders, nearly 30% of
cataract incidences, and over 20% each
of ischemic heart disease, lung cancer and lower
respiratory infection.
. McKinseys 2015
report, The Power of Parity: Advancing womens
equality in India, estimates that India can add $700
billion of additional GDP in 2025 by matching the
momentum towards gender parity to the fastest
country in the region

According to NCRB data, suicide is a leading cause of

death in young people. According to the
government, 60,000 young ones commit suicide
annually, which is much lesser than other independent
estimates.
Human rights group Amnesty International has
published a new report on number of death penalty
executions across the world.
Key Highlights of the Report
The world saw the highest number of
recorded executions in more than 25
years in 2015.
Implementation of Malimath committee reforms for
overhaul of criminal justice system.
The Law Commission in its 229th Report suggested
having a Constitution Bench in Delhi,
with four Cassation Benches in different regions.

The number of cybercrime cases registered in India has

risen by 350 per cent in
the three-year period from 2011 to 2014, according to
a joint study by PwC and
Assocham.
According to Census 2011, only 55.3 per cent of all
rural households had access
to electricity.
The UN recommends 222 cops
per 100,000 population; Indias number is around 140.
According to NSS data, the average annual income of
the median farmer net of
production costs from cultivation is less than rupees
20,000 in 17 states
Over 10 lakh people have been killed
in road accidents in India in the last 10 years
but the country
Berlin based Transparency International's Corruption

Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015 released on Wednesday

shows
that India has moved up in rank from 85th position to
76th

The likelihood of at least 600,000 deaths being

caused annually in India by fine particulate
matter pollution in the air is cause for worry, even
if the data released by the World Health
Organisation are only a modelled estimate.
A recent assessment of Indias expenditure on health published by The
Lancet showed that out-of-pocket spending comprises 58 per cent of the total;
two-thirds of this is on drugs

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on blackmoney has recommended ban on cash
transactions of above Rs 3 lakh and restricting cash holding with individuals to not more than Rs
15 lakh to curb illegal wealth in the economy.
Two national studies carried out by the RTI Assessment and Advocacy Group (RaaG) in collaboration
with the
National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information (NCPRI) had noted following facts which are
opposite to the
issue raised
Less than 1 per cent applications are frivolous
Majority of applicants sought basic information about actions of government, functioning of public
authorities & use of public resources.
A little over 1 per cent applications only require vast information which could divert time
70 per cent of the information sought should have been made public proactively
Section 8 of the Act that clearly spells out the exceptions can be used in matters of national
importance.
According to WHO and UNICEF estimates,
61 per cent of rural Indians defecate in the open in 2015, compared with only 32 per cent of rural
people
in sub-Saharan Africa

fertilizer subsidy amounted to Rs. 73,000 crore in 2015-16.