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 …
Whichever way one looks at the key indicators of employment and unemployment released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) recently, there is nothing much to crow about in inferences that can be drawn from the data collected in the 68th round of survey conducted during the period July 2011 …
Between 2009-2010 and 2011-2012, the proportion of people working slipped slightly in India, and the share of unemployed persons ticked up, a government report released on Thursday revealed. In 2009-10, 36.5% of the population was gainfully employed for the better part of the year. By 2011-12, the proportion of such …
Top 5% of the population had an MPCE of Rs 4,481 in rural areas and Rs 10,282 in urban areas Poorest of poor in the country survive on barely Rs 17 per day in villages and Rs 23 a day in cities, as per the latest data released by the …
SHILLONG: The survey for the Sixth Economic Census kick started in the State on Monday with the first citizen of Meghalaya, Governor RS Mooshahary, being enumerated at the Raj Bhawan by the census officials from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics. The team conducting the survey is led by Arnel …
New Delhi: Delhi has the lowest proportion of working women in any major Indian city, analysis of newly released Census data confirms. Kolkata and Mumbai have nearly double the proportion of working women as the capital, and southern cities including Coimbatore and Bengaluru are at the highest end of the …
Absolute Number Of Cultivators Has Fallen First Time In Four Decades, Stands At 119m New Delhi: There are now nearly 9 million fewer farmers than there were in 2001, the first time in four decades that the absolute number of cultivators has fallen. Census data released on Tuesday shows that …
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh may top the economic development parameters, but still has a long way to go in ensuring attendance in educational institutions and overall literacy levels especially among women. Young boys and girls in large numbers are still dropping out from the schools for "supplementing income and to attend …
Jaipur: The results are out and Rajasthan has once again flunked the literacy test. A National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report placed the state along with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the worst performing states in the country. The state has the second least literacy level in rural areas. Only …
As many as 99% of rural households had two square meals everyday througout the year in 2009-10, registering a gradual increase from 94.5% in 1993-94, according to a report by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). Similarly, 99.6% of urban households had two square meals a day in 2009-10 from …
The Economic Survey has said that the proportion of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) subsidies that goes to the poor, in both rural and urban areas, was low. This finding is bound to provide fuel to the debate on whether the rich should continue to be supplied cooking gas at subsidised …
BHUBANESWAR: Countering the allegation of food supplies and consumer welfare minister Pratap Keshari Deb that a recent central government survey on hunger was 'politically motivated', Union statistics and programme implementation minister Srikant Jena on Sunday said although the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) was under his administrative control he had …
Jaipur: Rajasthan has performed fairly well in providing two square meals in both rural and urban areas of the state. A survey “Perceived Adequacy Consumption in India of Food Household” released on Friday by the National Sample Survey (66th round) reports that almost each household in the state is getting …
Rural families in low income states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal depend far less on ration shops for wheat and rice than the national average. In Bihar, less than 12 per cent of the rural population uses ration shops to buy rice, and in West Bengal, less …
Slum rehabilitation projects, like Rajiv Awas Yojana, should not be shifted to the peripheries with no room for livelihood Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) is a major flagship programme of the UPA-II government that projects a vision of a slum-free India. It promises to make urban poor families realise their dreams …
Indian households purchased much more food items through the public distribution system (PDS) in 2009-10 than they did five years ago, the 66th National Sample Survey has indicated, raising doubts over the effectiveness of the government’s new direct cash transfer system over a large base. Greater penetration and higher use …
This S R Hashim Committee report on urban poor submitted to UPA government in December 2012 set the criteria for identifying the poor living in urban areas for various government schemes.
Whichever way you slice and dice the data, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s statement about causes of malnutrition in the state is wrong. In an interview to the Wall Street Journal, Modi had said malnutrition exists in Gujarat because it is “a vegetarian state” and also because it is a …
Rising inflation and a slowdown in growth had little impact on the rural consumption patterns which outpaced urban spending in the two year period between 2009-10 and 2011-12. Rural consumption expenditure outpaced that in urban India by 25 per cent, the first such phenomenon in over two decades, a report …
Mumbai: Fuelled by a construction boom and a rural employment generation push through NREGA, for the first time in about 25 years, the rate of growth of consumption in rural India has outpaced the urban increase in a two-year period between 2009-10 and 2011-12. In terms of money, people in …
New Delhi Poverty in India has come down to 26 per cent as per the latest data of household expenditure prepared by the NSSO for 2011-12, the Planning Commission said today. "Many of the academicians...said that poverty in 2011-12 using the Tendulkar line would probably be around 26 per cent …
