Vipul Vivek
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New Delhi, DL, India
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India’s Most Industrialised State Has Country’s Most Polluted Rivers
New Delhi: One of India’s most industrialised states, Maharashtra, was the worst at keeping its rivers clean, accounting for 16% of the country’s polluted river stretches in five years to 2012, show government data. → Read More
More Younger, Educated Indian Women Giving Birth At Unsafe Intervals
New Delhi: Indian women aged 15 to 29 years and those with more years in school gave birth at shorter, unsafe intervals over the decade to 2015-16, shows an IndiaSpend analysis of health data. → Read More
In 10 Years To 2016, India Progressed On 1 Of 6 World Bank Governance Indicators
Except corruption, India’s position on the World Bank’s global governance indicators either worsened or remained unchanged in 10 years to 2016, according to World Bank data. → Read More
9 Of Every 10 Living Near Raigarh’s Coal Mines Report Illnesses: Study
A villager looks at the changing landscape due to coal mines at Kosampalli-Sarasmal panchayat in Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh. Air, water, soil and sediment samples indicated high levels of 12 toxic metals in a study on the health and environmental impact of coal mining on three villages in the di... → Read More
9 Of Every 10 Living Near Raigarh’s Coal Mines Report Illnesses: Study
A villager looks at the changing landscape due to coal mines at Kosampalli-Sarasmal panchayat in Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh. Air, water, soil and sediment samples indicated high levels of 12 toxic metals in a study on the health and environmental impact of coal mining on three villages in the di... → Read More
Why Merely Fixing Schools Will Not Bring Back Children To Classrooms
For every child aged 8-19 years who blamed school environment for dropping out, three said family issues forced them out, according to a recent study that followed a group of children for 11 years. → Read More
5 States Have Half Of India’s Slums
A view of JJ Camp, a large slum in the Kali Bari Marg area of central New Delhi. Five states--Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and Bihar--had 51% of India's slums, according to a new paper. → Read More
‘Financial Inclusion Focus Has To Move From Individuals To Entire Informal Sector’
Women attend a meeting for loan collection near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, during the survey of bank account usage in low-income households. Rather than being limited to individual preferences for banking, the discussion on financial inclusion needs to enlarge its scope to the entire informal sector, a... → Read More
In 2016, Only 1 In 4 Indians Had Planned For Retirement
By 2031, the population of people more than 65 years old is expected to grow the fastest (75%) among all age groups, yet only 23% were saving or planning to save for retirement in 2016, according to an August 2017 report of a committee on household finance set up by the Reserve Bank of India... → Read More
India Enrolls More Children In Secondary School, But Is Failing To Teach Them
India has enrolled more children than ever before in secondary schools, but it is failing to teach them what they should be learning, with the most vulnerable, such as students from scheduled tribes, falling further behind the rest, reveal the preliminary findings of an ongoing global study. → Read More
In 3 Years, Cancer Rate Rises Up To 4 Times Faster Than National Rate In Small Provinces
A young cancer patient rests in the children's ward at the Cancer Centre Welfare Home and Research Institute in Kolkata. In three years to 2016, the cancer rate (cases per 100,000 people) rose four times faster than the national rate in some of India’s smallest provinces, two of which are a... → Read More
In 6 Years To 2016, India Reported 60% More Outbreaks Of Epidemic-Prone Diseases
Between 2011 and 2016, outbreaks of epidemic-prone diseases India reported and responded to rose by 60%, according to a reply to the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) by minister of state for health and family welfare Anupriya Patel on August 11, 2017. → Read More
Urea Imports Budget For 2017-18 Could Match Govt’s Loan From Japan For Infra Projects in 2016-17
The government allocation for urea imports in 2017-18 could match the funds it borrowed (Rs 14,251 crore or $2.2 billion) from Japan in 2016-17 for infrastructure projects. → Read More
Open Defecation: India Worst In 8 South Asian Nations in 2015
With 40% Indians defecating in the open in 2015, India was ranked 210 among the 232 countries/regions, according to the 2017 report of the joint monitoring programme for water supply, sanitation and hygiene produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)... → Read More
Women Migrate For Work At Double The Rate That Men Do
Women migrating for work and education between 2001 and 2011 grew at a rate that outpaced men who moved for similar reasons, shows an IndiaSpend analysis of Census data. In this period, the number of women migrating for work grew by 101%, more than double the growth rate for men (48. → Read More
In 5 Years To 2015-16, Real Farm Income/Cultivator Up 0.44% Annually
In five years to 2015-16, inflation-adjusted farm income per cultivator grew at only 0.44% a year, according to this March 2017 policy paper by National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. Since 1993-94, it has risen 108.5% to Rs 44,027 in 2015-16 in real terms, the paper reveals. → Read More