COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in August by the Government of India and WHO [HTML and PDF]
An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020 and the World Health ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in July by the Government of India and WHO [HTML and PDF]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in June by the Government of India and WHO [HTML and PDF]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in May by the Government of India and the World Health Organization [HTML and PDFs]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in April by the Government of India and the World Health Organization [HTML and PDFs]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in March by the Government of India and the World Health Organisation [HTML and PDFs]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in February by the Government of India and the World Health Organisation [HTML and PDFs]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of ...
COVID-19: Press Releases and Updates in January by the Government of India and the World Health Organisation [HTML and PDFs]
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of ...
Official Data: Rural Health Statistics 2018-19 [PDF 4.41 MB]
The full text of the Rural Health Statistics 2018-19 [PDF] can be accessed below.
Letting the Data Speak: Consumption Spending, Rural Distress, Urban Slow-Down, and Overall Stagnation
The National Statistical Office (NSO) brings out a survey, once every five years, on the distribution of consumption expenditure ...
Rural India’s Transition Challenges
While the electoral victory of the National Democratic Alliance in 2019 can, in part, be attributed to its welfare schemes and ...
"Income support schemes do not correct market failures": Economist
There is a proliferation of income support schemes on the Indian public policy landscape. Add to this two more by the principal ...
Nirmal to Swachch: More Money, More Toilets, More of the Same
Four years after the Government of India launched the Swachch Bharat Mission (SBM), what is the reality in rural Uttar Pradesh, ...
Rural Distress: Farmers as Voters
In a politically sensitive pre-election Union Budget the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has lost possibly its last ...
Public Sector Banking and the Unmet Expectations of Rural India
As public sector banks fall short of meeting rural India's credit requirements, the money lender, often usurious, has re-emerged ...
Slow Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Crisis
India’s agricultural growth in the past two decades has been slower than the rest of the economy. This has led to resentment among ...
Rural India on the National Optic Fibre Network: What Happens Next?
As one of the world’s largest rural connectivity endeavours, the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project has been the ...
Drought Relief: Harnessing Native Genius for Water Storage
Droughts draw attention to failure of government supply programmes. With each passing year the severity of the water crisis ...
Droughts, Famines, and Scarcities: Time for a Proactive State Mechanism
In the summer of 2016, at least a third of India’s rural residents are battling drought, often for the third consecutive year.
Karnataka steps up measures to support drought-hit farmers
Karnataka is in the grip of severe drought despite heavy rains in most regions of south-interior Karnataka in early May 2016. The ...