The Gender Snapshot 2022: The report entitled “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): The Gender Snapshot 2022” was launched by United Nations (UN) Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). The report highlighted that Substainable Development Goal-5 (SDG-5), or achieving gender equality, will not be met by 2030 at […]
Category: Important Reports
ILO: World Social Protection Report 2020-22
ILO: World Social Protection Report 2020-22 ILO recently released a report specific to Asia and the Pacific Key findings: No access to social protection: Almost 53% of the population in the world has no social protection (56% in the Asia-Pacific and in India over 76% (Bangladesh has a higher % of people under social protection) […]
Grievance Redressal Index 2022
Grievance Redressal Index 2022: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has topped among all Ministries/Departments for resolving Public Grievances in the ranking report published by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). UIDAI has been a top performer in the resolution of cases received through the Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System […]
Crime In India
Crime In India: India reported over 50,000 cases in 2021 Maximum from Telangana, UP, Karnataka and MH. Overall crime in India increased by 7.6% (seven point six). The increase in violent crimes and suicides in 2021 point to the indirect consequences of the pandemic Death due to suicide in 2021 — 12 per one lakh […]
Best Aspirational District : Haridwar
Best Aspirational District : Haridwar NITI Aayog has declared Haridwar city of Uttarakhand as the best aspirational district on the basis of five parameters. Haridwar has secured first position in Basic Infrastructure theme. Now an additional allocation of Rs 3 crore will be made to this city. The programme was launched in January 2018 aims […]
Sex Ratio At Birth
Sex Ratio At Birth: A recent study has reported that “son bias” is on a decline in India as Sex Ratio at Birth normalised from 111 boys per 100 girls in 2011 to 108 boys per 100 girls in 2019-21. Findings of the Report: The average annual number of baby girls “missing” in India fell […]
African Rhinoceros
African Rhinoceros: A report has stated that Rhino poaching rates in Africa declined to 2.3% in 2021 from 3.9% in 2018. At least 2,707 rhinos were poached in Africa between 2018 and 2021, including critically endangered black rhino and near threatened white rhino. The report was compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature […]
First Completely “Functionally Literate”District In India
First Completely “Functionally Literate”District In India: Tribal-dominated Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh has become the first completely “functionally literate” district in India. Functional illiteracy comprises reading and writing skills that are required to manage daily living and employment tasks. Such tasks require reading skills beyond the basic level. It is the opposite of illiteracy, which […]
World Population Prospectus Report 2022
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. […]
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 […]
