Friday Factly
General Studies-1 Children: Between September 2019 and January 2020, 25,000 instances of child pornography being uploaded online In 2017, a staggering 68% of 1.04 million deaths of children under five years in India was attributable to malnutrition, reckoned a Lancet study last year. Climate Change Greenhouse Gas emissions reached a new high last […]
General Studies-3 Banking Sector in India: 6 out of 17 PSBs were headquartered in the South, and so were nine out of 12 ‘old’ characteristically small private banks. Skill Development and Human capital India ranks 78th on a list of 122 countries as per the Human Capital Development report of the World Economic Forum […]
General Studies -1 Land Degradation The Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas (2016) by Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO, identifies 96.4 m ha as undergoing the process of desertification/land degradation. This is almost 30 per cent of India’s geographical area. India joined the Bonn Challenge in 2015 with a pledge to restore 21 mha […]
General Studies -1 Inequality The study reported that the richest 1% of the population in India owns more than four times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up the bottom 70% of the population. SHG The NABARD SHG Bank Linkage Programme today covers an astonishing 124 million rural households. Sex […]
General Studies-II Judicial Reforms: More than 40 mn cases are pending in India in various courts. According to National Judicial Data Grid more than 80,000 cases are more than 30 years old in district courts. General Studies-III MSP NSS survey and NITI Aayog study showcase that MSP awareness remains low. The regime favors […]
General Studies-II Food Security If a person in New York has to pay $1.2 for a plate of food, the same plate will cost $7 in India and $15 in Pakistan. The same plate would cost $300 in Sudan. Women and Food Security Women comprise an average of 43 per cent of the […]
General Studies-II Hunger and Malnutrition: In terms of overall undernutrition, 14 % of the population doesn’t get enough calories. 35% of children are stunted. This was 54% in 2000. 17% of under 5 children are wasted. This is highest in the world. 42% of adolescent girls have low BMI and 56% anaemic. 27% […]
General Studies – 2 Mental Health: According to National Mental Health Survey 2015-16 conducted by NIMHAS, Bengaluru every sixth person in India need help. According to WHO, in 2011, there were 0·301 psychiatrists and 0·047 psychologists for every 100,000 patients suffering from a mental health disorder in India. It is estimated that 6-7 % of […]
General Studies – 1 Wetlands in India: India has 27,403wetlands in total, and close to 4000 of them are coastal wetlands. India is losing wetlands at the rate of 2-3% each year. Women empowerment: Reservation of seats for women in local governance has ensured that more than 1.3 million elected women representatives in India. […]
General Studies – 2 As per the National Crime Records Bureau report on Crime in India –2019 Crime rate registered per lakh population went up marginally to 385.5 in 2019 as compared to 383.5 in 2018. A total of 51.56 lakh cognizable crimes comprising 32.25 lakh Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes and 19.30 lakh […]