Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This latest report released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) highlights the dismal living conditions of the people in urban slums of India and focuses on- drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and the housing conditions. Read this report, related reports, documents and more...
The figure for households without toilets is 47 per cent for Hindu households as against 31 per cent for Muslims and 16 per cent for Christians and Sikhs, according to NSS data. Extensive new evidence shows that building toilets alone will not eliminate open defecation in India as not everyone …
A third of the poorest urban population had exclusive supply of drinking water in 2012 against 28.5% in 2008-09 Accessibility to potable water improved for the poor in the country between 2009 and 2012, particularly in rural areas, said a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report. Around 27 per cent …
While the NSSo’s latest report shows that most Indians now live in pucca houses and have electricity connection, it also paints a bleak picture of sanitation and hygiene conditions in the rural areas. Nearly two-third of dwelling units in villages lack a bathroom and less than half have drinking water …
Continuous rise in prices of rice in the open market has forced households to lower their consumption. According to a latest Government survey, trends also show an increasing reliance on ration shops to buy rice and other food grains at controlled rates. According to the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) …
Says poverty estimates are reasonable The latest official estimate of India’s poor, from a committee chaired by C Rangarajan, head of the former Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, is based on certain normative standards of food and non-food consumption, as well as behavioural aspects of classes concerned for consumption of …
This report is based on the employment and unemployment survey conducted in the 68th round of NSS during July 2011 to June 2012. The survey was spread over 12,737 FSUs (7,469 villages and 5,268 urban blocks) covering 1,01,724 households (59,700 in rural areas and 42,024 in urban areas) and enumerating …
State’s poverty reduction rate ‘impressive’: OES Odisha stands second among the 14 States in the country with highest incidence of poverty after Bihar. While Bihar topped the list with registering highest 33.34 per cent of poor people, Odisha followed with 32.59 per cent by 2011-12. The incidence of poverty had …
The rape and murder of two teenaged girls in Uttar Pradesh has put the focus back on lack of access to private toilets in villages, forcing women and girls to go out to defecate in the open which makes them vulnerable to sexual violence. Lack of toilets is also a …
The All-India Debt and Investment Survey, and the Land and Livestock Holding Survey were last conducted in 2003. In what could considered a scorecard of the UPA government’s policies on rural India over the last 10 years, two key reports on debt and investment as well as land holding patterns …
India could be overstating poverty levels as the private final consumption estimates captured by the National Income Accounts (NIA) is nearly twice as much as the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) estimates for consumption expenditure of households in 2011-12. At present, poverty ratios are calculated using the NSSO data. The …
In January 2012, PM Manmohan Singh declared half of India’s children were malnourished and that was a national shame. Yet since then, not a single comprehensive national survey was conducted to determine the acuteness of the problem or measure progress, if any, of steps initiated to address malnutrition. Worse, the …
Only 6.4 per cent and eight per cent of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste households are using clean fuel in rural parts. A report by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, shows that the per capita emission of carbon dioxide by urban households is a shocking 16 times …
As part of India Human Development Survey, the team covered 42,000 households across the country. Employment in agriculture has fallen sharply over the last seven years and a combination of farm-oriented and non-farm work is now the most common form of rural employment, according to the findings of a nationwide …
Chulhas - cook stoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs, leaves and every other biomass material they can find to cook meals - are today at the centre of failing international action. The concern is that women are breathing toxic emissions from the stove and that these same emissions …
This report presents the estimates pertaining to various facets of household consumer expenditure at National and State levels. The report not only gives rural and urban averages of Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (MPCE) at State/UT and National level but also provides insights into the differences in MPCE within the rural …
In 2009-10, number of days a household got employment in a month in rural areas of Rajasthan was about 38, which steadily dropped to 23 in 2012-13 Rajasthan and Karnataka, which used to be stand-out performers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)'s flagship scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment …
Poor drinking water facilities, debilitating drainage system and crippling sanitation are the hallmarks of Rajasthan, says the latest survey. The 69th report of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) ranked Rajasthan among bottom five states for having least access to drinking water and toilets in rural areas. The report also says …
New Delhi: Government spending of over Rs 46,000 crore on infrastructure augmentation under UPA’s flagship JNNURM scheme seems to have improved key indicators of urban life in India and reached the poorest of poor. The recent National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data shows that over 90% of slumdwellers feel water …
Hyderabad: While Andhra Pradesh has the second largest slum population in the country after Maharashtra, government surveys show that about 60 per cent of urban slums in the state are located on privately owned land. Interestingly, the National Sample Survey Office report states that half of these slums have been …
