Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
A comprehensive food security scheme based on the National Food Security Act, 2013, has been launched in Rajasthan, covering 4.64 crore people in the State’s population of 6.86 crore. In addition to the people living below poverty line, several other categories of beneficiaries have been created for the scheme. Chief …
Slum Dwellers Remain Without Any Basic Facilities Not a single slum in Rajasthan is recognized by the state government leaving the entire population of slum dwellers without any basic facilities provided by the state. According to the primary census abstract for slum 2011, released on Monday, Rajasthan has 20.68 lakh …
The state government has completed the preparations for implementation of the Food Security Act which is expected to come into force from December Maharashtra government has set up a cabinet sub-committee, headed by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, to decide on guidelines for selecting beneficiaries to implement the Food Security Act …
Number Of Towns With Shanties Went Up From 1,743 In 2001 To 2,613 In 2011 Over a third of the slum population in India lives without any basic facility being provided by the state as the slums are not recognized. In the case of some states like Rajasthan, Gujarat and …
With the Central Government issuing numerous instructions with regard to the implementation of the National Food Security Programme under the provisions of the National Food Security Act, it will not be an easy task for the states to handle. In fact, the Centre, after taking the credit of enacting the …
The number of cancer cases is on the rise in Muktsar district. At the two-day special check-up camp organised at the Civil Hospital here recently, at least 24 people have been diagnosed with this lethal disease and seven of them are reported to be suffering from breast cancer. The health …
The world’s population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation, a French study said Wednesday. A bi-annual report by the French Institute of Demographic Studies (Ined) projected there would be 10 to …
Newly released census data shows families living in slums have a far better child sex ratio than the urban Indian average. Over a third of India’s slum dwellers live in unrecognised slums. Over 65 million people live in slums, up from 52 million in 2001, but slum populations have grown …
Rajendra Kumar, Rajkot’s district collector, has had a first-hand experience of the disease his office is tracking. “On the very first day of fever, I had my blood tested to rule out dengue,” he says. “I was extremely weak and had to be hospitalised in the first week of September.” …
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 …
Only 18% Have All 3 Facilities; Fall In Agriculture’s GDP Share: Report One in five rural households has none of three basic facilities — drinking water, electricity and sanitation — while only about 18% have access to all three. The India Rural Development Report 2012-13 released by Jairam Ramesh on …
The Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps are engaged in a major rescue operation as the death toll in Tuesday’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake that shook parts of Balochistan and Sindh crossed 300, with over 400 injured. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) chairperson Major-General Muhammed Saeed Aleem said the main damage was in …
The Jaipur Metro project has come at the right time to make up for the poor public transport in the state capital. Relating the project to boom in population, private vehicles, industrialization and employment in the recent times, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which has complied several reports, says that …
As many as 25 new dengue cases were reported on Saturday. As per the data provided by the microbiology department of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM), 25 new dengue cases were reported in the past 48 hours. The total dengue patients reported here since August 8 is 184. …
NIV Scientists Find DENV-3 Was Causative Agent In 19 Of 28 Samples During July-Sept Scientists at the Punebased National Institute of Virology (NIV) have confirmed that three serotypes of dengue virus — DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3 — are currently co-circulating in the city. Among the three types, DENV-3 has been …
The disparity in living conditions in the capital was starkly revealed by the data released in the Delhi Statistical Handbook 2013. According to the handbook, over 30 per cent of Delhi’s population lives in one-room dwellings, while three per cent resides in more five-room accommodations. As per the report, 32.2 …
New Delhi: Even as the Delhi government chose to highlight Delhi as a “vibrant city” based on data from the Delhi Statistical Handbook 2013, the report reveals the capital’s dismal performance in curbing infant mortality rate. In 2012, this rate was 23.94 per 1,000 live births—the highest since 2007 when …
Mumbai Ranks Seventh, Tokyo Tops The List The tions urban of agglomera Delhi and - Mumbai, which barely matched up to global cities in size in 1950, are now counted among the seven most populous mega-cities in the world, reveals the 2013 World Population Data Sheet released by the US’s …
The number of registered vehicles in Delhi has increased from 7438155 in 2011-12 to 7774403 in 2012-13 according to this latest handbook which consists of data on various Socioeconomic parameters in respect of NCT of Delhi. Delhi Statistical Hand Book-2013 is the 38th issue being published by Directorate of Economics …
A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change, scientists said on Wednesday. British and Swedish researchers sequenced DNA from 88 samples of mammoth bone, tooth and tusk, looking for a signature in the genetic code that is handed …
