Food Production in India: India has made notable progress in food production over the years. In 2020, India produced over 300 million tonnes of cereals. These record harvests over the last few years can be attributed to several enabling policies in the realm of land reforms, public investments, institutional infrastructure, new regulatory systems, intervention in …
What is Institutional Delivery? It means giving birth to a child in a medical institution under the overall supervision of trained and competent health personnel. It also signifies an availability of amenities to handle the situation and save the life of the mother and child. Recent trends of Institutional Deliveries in India: The share of India’s institutional deliveries increased to …
Facts: According to a new report, about 27.3 million workers, representing 7% of the country’s workforce, will require digital skills training for their jobs over the next year. The need for more advanced cloud computing skills, including machine learning and cloud architecture design have emerged as the fifth and sixth most in demand digital skills by employers in India by 2025. What are the issues related to …
Context: World Health Organization (WHO) presented new guidelines on abortion care. Significance on New Guidelines: WHO claimed, would prevent more than 25 million unsafe abortions annually. The new guidelines include recommendations on many simple interventions at the primary care level that improve the quality of abortion care provided to women and girls. The new guidelines will support interested countries to …
Facts about Indian students abroad: India has a history of students traveling abroad for higher education and major personalities who went abroad include Mahatma Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Amartya Sen and Manmohan Singh. As estimated before the COVID pandemic, about 7,50,000 Indian students were studying abroad, spending around $24 billion in foreign economies, which …
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Context: The war in Ukraine and the evacuation program launched by the government following the crisis have highlighted the number of students that travel abroad for medical education. Facts: There are about 18,000 Indian medical students in Ukraine. Countries preferred by Indian students for medical education: Russia China Ukraine Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Philippines Why do Indians …
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World Inequality Report 2022: World Inequality report 2022 has been released. The report is authored by Lucas Chancel, co-director of the World Inequality Lab and coordinated by famed French economist Thomas Piketty among others. Key findings of the World Inequality Report 2022 related to India: National Income: In India, the top 10% and top 1% hold respectively …
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Economic Dualism in India: Dualism indicates co-existence of two different worlds. Economic dualism therefore denotes existence of disparities in economic sphere. In India’s case it denotes the disparities between, Urban vs rural, formal vs informal, land (and other assets)-owning vs landless. employed vs jobless, well-educated vs ill-educated, and rich vs poor states. What are the possible reasons …
Why India’s Economic growth is not inclusive? Rising hunger, according to the Global Hunger Index 2020 India ranks 94th amongst 107 countries. Unhappiness: Indian citizens are amongst the least happy in the world. According to the World Happiness Report of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, India ranks 144th amongst 153 countries. Rising Poverty: Pandemic has increased the inequality gap further by pushing many poor …
India’s Performance in Sustainable Development Goals: India has slipped three spots to rank 120 on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) adopted as a part of the 2030 agenda by 192 United Nations member states in 2015. In 2021 India ranked 117 among 192 nations. India’s overall SDG score was 66 out of 100. India’s rank dropped primarily because of major challenges in …