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 …
New data on the status of drinking water and sanitation released by the National Sample Survey Organisation on Tuesday indicated a far better state of affairs than that is detailed in the 2011 Census. Conducted just a year after the Census, the 69th round of the National Sample Survey found …
One-eighth of India’s urban population lives in slums: NSSO Maharashtra accounts for 23 per cent of total slum population, followed by Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal Just under nine million households, or roughly one-eighth of India’s urban population, lives in a slum, according to data from the latest round of …
The situation is, however, far better in urban India as less than 9% of the population lacks the facility As many as 60 per cent of rural households do not have access to a toilet facility even after 66 years of independence, show official data. The situation is better in …
Sixty percent of rural households do not have access to toilet facility even after 66 years of independence Among the reasons that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won electoral support in Delhi may have been its pledges to provide 700 litres of free drinking water each day along with a …
59.4 per cent and 8.8 per cent households in rural India and urban India, respectively, had no latrine facilities, says this 69th round NSSO survey report on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and housing condition in India. The National Sample Survey (NSS), set up by the Government of India in 1950 …
This “Key Indicators” document presents estimates of some key characteristics of slums such as number of slums, approximate number of households living in the slums, proportion of slums without electricity, proportion of slums without drainage facilities, proportion of slums without a garbage disposal system, proportion of slums with the majority …
An internal analysis in the Planning Commission shows that India can eliminate the poverty gap by spending just a fraction of its annual anti-poverty budget instead of inaugurating new anti-poverty schemes. The cost of pushing all households above the poverty line would have been Rs. 55,744 crore during 2011-12 if …
Dwarfing the government’s oft-quoted estimate that 20-30% of subsidised grain disbursed to the poor is siphoned away, the farm ministry’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has now pegged the figure much higher at 40.5%. The CACP estimate exposes the dismal progress in improving the targeted public distribution system …
Country’s Hunger Index Has Dropped Three Points, But Stays In ‘Alarming’ Category: Global Hunger Report In a striking irony, the number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released on Monday even as world cereal production was …
Committee comes out with a new index of backwardness on 10 indicators A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has recommended a new index of backwardness to determine which States need special assistance. The new methodology ranks Odisha as India’s most backward State, Bihar, which has been seeking ‘special’ status, as …
Three Congress ruled States in the northeast have achieved the dubious distinction of being the “least developed” States. A committee appointed by the Union Finance Ministry has identified Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and seven other States across the country as “least developed”. Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan …
Kohima: At least 70.9 per cent of the population of Nagaland is estimated to be covered under the National Food Security Ordinance 2013. According to report received in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution K V Thomas yesterday said based …
Deep inside a dream he sees himself, dressed in the same slightly torn lungi that he wears every day, but with his hair flying in the wind at the top of a grand, three-storey mansion. The illusion shatters even before he wakes up when he recognises his dream home as …
Unemployment was highest among Sikhs living in cities and towns during 2009-10 while the rate of joblessness showed a downward trend for Muslims in both urban and rural areas, a government survey released this month has revealed. Muslims had the lowest per capita spending, according to the National Sample Survey …
While the Opposition pillories the Planning Commission for using a formal definition of poverty that ensures the percentage of people below the poverty line is lower than what it ought to be, the government has begun moving to a broader and more realistic de facto definition that will include roughly …
New Delhi: People spending more than Rs 27.2 per day in villages and Rs 33.3 in cities are not poor, according to the latest data released by the government. The proportion of the poor has come down to 21.9% of the country’s population in 2011-12 from 37.2% in 2004-05, a …
Every eighth person living in urban areas is below the poverty line, while one in five rural residents is poor, the Planning Commission has estimated. According to the new estimates, there has been a sharp reduction in both absolute numbers of poor, as well as the poverty ratio. The poverty …
Peg decline at 7.8 percentage points between 2009-10 and 2011-12 The poverty rate has declined by 7.8 percentage points in two years, according to the latest estimates by the Planning Commission. If 29.8 per cent of the population was poor in 2009-10, the figure came down to 22 per cent …
Poverty level in the country may have declined significantly between 2009-10 and 2011-12, the latest government survey on household consumer expenditure indicates, giving something to the beleaguered UPA government to hard sell ahead of elections next year. Back of the envelope calculations by ET suggest that poverty levels have fallen …
