Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed to have constructed 3.4 million toilets in Karnataka under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) during four years of the National Democratic Alliance (since May 2014) while the earlier United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by the Congress constructed only 2 million toilets in four years. …Read More
Mumbai: “In the past one week, over 8.5 lakh toilets have been constructed in Bihar, and that is not an easy task to do. The speed and development is not a mean feat. This proves that soon Bihar would catch up with the national average,” Prime Minister said during a rally in Motihari, …Read More
Expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages of households and non-profit institutions–such as temples and gurudwaras–serving households has declined from 30% of income in 2011-12 to 27.7% in 2015-16, according to the national accounts statistics 2017. Spending has also declined on housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels but has increased on health, and clothing …Read More
Employment among rural males in India’s primary sector–agriculture–has declined from 717 per 1,000 males in 1990 to 594 per 1,000 males in 2012, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on September 15, 2017 For women in rural areas, the decline is more gradual: From 814 per 1,000 women …Read More
As many as 76 of 100 overnight trips in rural areas in 2014-15 were for health and medical reasons, government data show, an indication of India’s scant rural healthcare. In urban areas, health and medical reasons accounted for 42 of 100 trips, according to this report (2014-15) on domestic tourism, the latest available data. …Read More
