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Friday Factly 11 June 2021

  • October 18, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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General Studies – 1

Public Heath:

  • The country’s target of 2.5 per cent of the GDP.

Land degradation:

  • India’s land is undergoing degradation or desertification. In 2011-2013, it stood at 29.3 percent of the total land, representing an increase of 0.57 percent (which is 1.87 million hectares in area) compared with 2003-2005, according to a report-cum-atlas by ISRO’s Space Applications Centre.
  • Soil erosion due to water and wind, and degradation of vegetation cover were the main processes that have led to land degradation.
  • Almost 90 percent of the states experienced a rise – notably Delhi and the northeastern states – in land degradation in 2011-2013 compared with 2003-2005 while four states showed slight decreases in land degradation.
  • According to National Task Force on women in science report Only 15 per cent of the Indian research and development workforce.

General Studies – 3

  • As per CMIE data, the unemployment rate that reached 11.9 per cent in May, continued to rise into early June.

Per capita GSDP:

  • States are classified into high-income (12) and low-income (6). States with higher per capita GSDP than the national average (₹_1,08,620) are considered high-income.
  • The 12 high-income States in descending order are:

Sikkim, Haryana, Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, Kerala, Mizoram, Punjab, and Andhra Pradesh.

  • The six low-income States, with less than the national average per capita GSDP, in descending order are:

Tripura, Rajasthan, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

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