World Population Prospectus Report 2022: The world population prospectus report 2022 was released last month. Findings: India is at the 3rd stage of the demographic transition (DT). India is experiencing a slowing population growth rate due to constant low mortalityand rapidly declining fertility. Its population growth is further expected to fall to 1% by 2025. […]
Category: Important Reports
Review Of Guardianship And Adoption Laws
Review Of Guardianship And Adoption Laws: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice tabled a report “Review of Guardianship and Adoption Laws” in Parliament and recommended district-level surveys to identify orphaned and abandoned children. In India, there are only 2,430 children available for adoption while the number of parents desiring […]
Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO
Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has released a report titled “Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022: Investing in transforming futures for young people”. Findings Globally: Gender Disparity in EPR: Young women exhibited a much lower Employment-to-Population ratio (EPR), showing that young men are almost 1.5 times more likely than […]
Outbound Travel And Tourism – An Opportunity Untapped
Outbound Travel And Tourism – An Opportunity Untapped: A report was released titled ‘Outbound Travel and Tourism – An Opportunity Untapped’, which shows India’s outbound tourism will surpass USD 42 billion by 2024. Outbound tourism is the act of travelling ‘out’ of the home country for the purposes of tourism. Findings of the Report: The […]
Food Security And Gender Equality: CARE
Food Security And Gender Equality: CARE A report was released named “Food Security and Gender Equality: A synergistic understudied symphony”, which highlighted a global link between Gender Inequality and Food Insecurity. The Report was released by CARE, which is an international humanitarian organisation fighting global poverty and world hunger by working alongside women and girls. […]
Aridity Anomaly Outlook Index : IMD
Aridity Anomaly Outlook Index : IMD Recently Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) released the Index for the month of July Key findings: Nearly 660 of 756 districts (85%) were facing different degrees of aridity, while only 63 are non-arid. At least 196 districts are in the grip of a ‘severe’ degree of dryness and 65 of […]
The Annual Review Of State Laws, 2021 Report
The Annual Review Of State Laws, 2021 Report: A report titled ”The Annual Review of State Laws, 2021” was released by PRS Legislative Research. As per the report, Kerala got first place in 2021, with its House sitting for 61 days, the highest for any State. Kerala had also promulgated 144 ordinances, the highest in […]
Targets Released To Curb Malnutrition
Targets Released To Curb Malnutrition: The Ministry of Women and Child Development has released targets to Curb Malnutrition in India. Aims at reducing stunting and under-nutrition (underweight prevalence) among children below 6 years by 2% each year. Aims to Reduce, low birth weight by 2% per annum, Anaemia among children between six and 59 months, […]
The Gender Parity Index : UNESCO
The Gender Parity Index : UNESCO Cases of crime against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have risen progressively in the years between 2018 and 2020, according to figures tabled by the Ministry of Home Affairs in Lok Sabha. In the 2022 Gender Parity Index released by UNESCO, Rwanda has been ranked 6th among 146 nations […]
India’s Bioeconomy Report 2022
India’s Bioeconomy Report 2022: Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) released India’s Bioeconomy Report 2022. During the release, the government launched a special Biotech Ignition Grant call for North East Region (BIG-NER) and announced financial support of up to Rs 50 Lakhs each to 25 startups and entrepreneurs from North East Region to develop biotech […]
