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Mumbai: Tribal populations in India experience worse health outcomes compared to the national average, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data has found. Overall, fewer tribal women receive pregnancy care; those who do have a lower quality of care; more children die in early childhood; and many who survive are malnourished. A higher percentage of tribals have hypertension, and there are fewer specialist doctors in tribal areas.
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Experts noted the multifaceted nature of market dynamics, which has led to more women enrolling in natural sciences and medicine but not in engineering and in information and technology for post graduate courses. “The All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) shows an increase in student enrollment in science fields," says Shweta Gaur, Engagement Manager at Sattva Consulting, a global impact and CSR consulting firm in India.
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2 months ago | 
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Mumbai: Road accidents in India fell 6% in a decade to 2022, but a higher percentage of these were fatal crashes--up from a quarter of all accidents in 2012 to a third in 2022. As a result, deaths from these accidents rose 22% during this period. Every hour in 2022, 19 people died due to road crashes, data from the Road Accidents in India report for 2022, the latest available, show.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
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Mumbai: Ruhi Shelke, a working professional in her early 20s, likes the banana chips from her favourite local chain, Hot Chips. “They make it hot and fresh right in front of my eyes,” she says. The outlet claims to be using sunflower oil, but the clear plastic packaging does not specify the amount of salt or sugar used, nor is there any supervision over the number of times the oil is reused for frying.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
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Experts point out that poorer states especially lack their own sources of capital and have to depend on Union government support. “The central government’s support hasn't been substantial enough to make a significant difference to horizontal inequalities [across states] in health spending,” says Raj. “We don't see much evidence that these efforts have reduced horizontal inequalities.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
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Mumbai: The Women’s Reservation Bill allocates 33% of all seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures for women. However, only 13% of the Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the 18th Lok Sabha are women. Of 543 elected MPs, 73 are women, marking a decrease from the 78 women elected to the 17th Lok Sabha. The gender gap in elected representatives begins with the disparity among candidates. Of the 8,337 candidates who stood for election, 797 were women.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
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Mumbai: IndiaSpend looked at 35 parliamentary questions on health, education, labour, environment, agriculture, finance, gender and law and justice, between 2015 and 2023, for which the government responded that they had no data. The most common reason, in 17 of the 35 questions, for not providing data was “no such data is maintained”, we found. Of the questions we analysed, there were 20 from the Lok Sabha and 15 from the Rajya Sabha.
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May 31, 2024 | 
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Mumbai: On May 1, 2024, at a protest held at the Congress party headquarters against a comment by a senior Congress leader, students from a private university struggled to read and comprehend what was written, in English and Hindi, on the placards they were carrying. This was a stark example of a lack of basic ability that starts right from the beginning of school.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
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Mumbai: Aditya Shinde (name changed) spent upwards of Rs 7 lakh on the health expenses of his grandmother, who was diagnosed with renal failure in late 2019 and died in April 2021. “The medical costs have definitely gone up,” Shinde, who lost his father in 2013 to the same condition, says. “The cost of a haemoglobin injection (which is required for every dialysis session) was Rs 450 in 2013 and even at a discounted cost, I got it for Rs 850 [for my grandmother].
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
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Mumbai:In 2022, India reported over 460,000 road accidents, leading to 168,000 deaths--about one death every three minutes, on average. This is the highest number ever recorded. Further over 440,000 people had non-fatal injuries, according to data from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. A third of the accidents were on national highways, about a quarter on state highways and the rest on ‘other roads’, corresponding to 36%, 24% and 40% deaths, respectively.
