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 …
This annual issue of Rural Development Statistics, the 22nd in the series is a compilation, analysis and presentation of data on selected key socio-economic and demographic parameters of people living in rural areas. The achievements of Anti-Poverty Programmes implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India are highlighted …
The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied the requisite criteria in 2001 itself; mitigating concerns of inflated urbanisation. The new CTs account …
The present Statistical Abstract 2012 is the Sixth in a series brought out by this Directorate on the basis of secondary data sources. The uniqueness of Statistical Abstract is that it contains time series data on various socio-economic parameters and serves as an effective quantitative tool for reaching to logical …
Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Reconstruction Mission (JNNURM), 45 solid waste management (SWM) projects at a cost of Rs 2,086 crore and 70 projects of Rs 409 crore have been approved so far in different states by the Urban Development Ministry, Government of India. JUNNURM has listed 65 mission …
New Delhi: The National Family Health Survey, India’s primary source of health and nutrition data, is back on. The fourth round of the survey, which was believed to have been controversially called off, will be conducted between 2013 and 2014 and its results will be out over 2014-15, the health …
KATHMANDU: In encouraging news on the wildlife front, Nepal has witnessed a jump in tiger population over the last two years during which the numbers of the wild cat went up from 155 to 176. The latest tiger count made public by WWF Nepal shows an increase of 21 tigers …
Govt Study Finds Public Transport System Suffering With Few Buses And Delays New Delhi: The preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the urban development ministry at the Centre has found that the availability of public transport (buses and Metro) in Delhi per 1,000 people is a shocking 0.504. Worse, …
The temperature in the city is rising and the matter is of grave concern. If not attended to now, it will lead to some irreversible damage and leave us with no natural resources for the next generation. According to a study by the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, …
The government has in principle decided to expand the coverage of population under the proposed Food Security Bill to include almost 70 per cent of Indians, who will have the legal right to cheap food, against the earlier proposal of 64 per cent of the same. It will also end …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday gave further momentum to an alternative proposal that seeks to replace rigid provisions in the National Food Security Bill with “liberal” options that will give greater flexibility to states while legally binding the Centre to a higher food subsidy burden than the estimates for …
Insurers may be burning their fingers in urban health portfolios for some time now, but the government’s rural healthcare initiatives, including its decision to provide free generic drugs to public hospitals, are set to offer fresh avenues of growth for them. The recent government decision to provide free generic drugs …
Even as the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) — the average number of children born to a woman during her reproductive years has gone down substantially in the country, the recent survey revealed that it is still a distant dream for many states as in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand …
60% Indian respondents not happy with govt?s direction, finds Pew Centre study situation no better in rest of the world, either There are now figures to back the frustration. The sentiment of disappointment sweeping through the country — as the government falters on delivering promised growth, undertaking key reforms and …
Rich nations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said they had pledged more than 2.6 billion dollars towards family planning in developing countries at a summit in London on Wednesday. The aim of the summit was to secure new funding pledges to give an additional 120 million women and …
To check if regional plans are in sync with the Master Plan The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) has signed an agreement with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRCS) in Hyderabad to prepare satellite images of NCR towns to assess whether the norms laid down by the Board have …
With India accounting for 1.21 billion people, a call for taking concerted action to stabilise the country’s population was made here on Wednesday on the occasion of World Population Day. A Conference on ‘Population Action: Towards a Better Tomorrow’ was organised at Vigyan Bhavan which mooted repositioning family planning, especially …
MUMBAI: It may be hard to believe but Mumbai recorded its slowest population growth in almost a century in the last decade. The population of the island city shrunk by 5.75% from 2001 to 2011, recording the sharpest drop in south Mumbai since 1901, according to a detailed analysis of …
Kohima: According to Census 2011 Provisional Population totals released on Friday last, Nagaland contributes 0.16 per cent to India’s total population and ranks 25th in the total population among Indian states. The Census of India 2011- Provisional Population Totals Paper 2, Volume II of 2011 (Rural- Urban) distribution, Nagaland series …
After the scheme to provide door-to-door contraceptives showed encouraging results, the government has now decided to rope in Accredited Social Health Activists (Asha) to motivate couples delay having children. With an aim to lay emphasis on spacing rather than limiting, the health ministry has decided to utilise its 8 lakh …
The State government should adopt a need-based approach on the allocation of funds for tribal areas instead of population-based, according to Rameshwar Oraon, Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST). After discussions with senior officials of the government, the NCST chief told The Hindu that the tribal areas in the …
