There has been much media focus on the monsoon season in India this year largely on account of the large-scale devastation in parts. While every section of the population is affected in different ways as a result of extreme climate events, there is no doubt that households in urban areas, particularly in less developed parts of a city such as …
However, the report said the percentage of households practising open defecation decreased from 39 percent in 2015-16 to 19 per cent in 2019-21 New Delhi: Even though India was declared Open Defecation Free by the government in 2019, the latest NFHS survey conducted in 2019-21 showed that 19 per cent of households do not use any toilet facility. However, the …
Towards the end of November 2021, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released two interesting documents. The report on NHA claimed that the share of the government’s health expenditure in the total gross domestic product increased from 1.15 per cent to 1.35 per cent in 2017-18. Likewise, it said, the share of total government expenditure in total health expenditure …
In September, the National Statistical Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, published two significant survey reports, the eighth All-India Debt and Investment Survey and the Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India, 2019. In rural India, 97.5 per cent of households reported ownership of physical assets, while 96.6 per cent had …
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