General Studies-1 Road Accidents Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra – that account for 35 per cent of road accident deaths. India has seen around 4.5 lakh road accidents resulting in at least 1.5 lakh deaths over the past few years. More than 75 per cent of poor households reported a decline […]

    General Studies-1 Education A study by Azim Premji University has found that 92 per cent of primary school students have lost at least one language ability from the previous year during the school closure induced by Covid-19. 82 per cent of the students in Classes 2 to 6 had lost at least one […]

    General Studies-1 Survey The Survey called for increasing the public healthcare spending from 1 percent of GDP to 2.5-3 per cent so that out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) reduces from the current 65 percent to 35 percent. Around 74percent of outpatient care and 65 percent of hospitalization care is provided through private sector in urban […]

    General Studies-1 Gender disparity According to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, while men recovered most of their lost jobs by November 2020, women didn’t — 49 percent of job losses were of women The IMF on Tuesday projected an 11.5% growth rate for India in 2021, making the country the only […]

    General Studies-1 Gender Divide A Harvard University study in 2018 found a 33 per cent gender gap in mobile ownership in India. When it came to social media use and smart phone ownership, the gap was above 60per cent. Unpaid work/Gender Divide As per NSSO’s Time Use Survey 2019, 92% of the women […]

    General Studies-1 Women Security In 2019, the NCRB data show 88 rape cases were recorded every day in India with U.P. reporting the second-highest number at 3,065 cases Demography The latest longitudinal ageing study in India (LASI), released by the Union ministry of health, shows 12% of Indians are over the age of […]

    General Studies-1 Gender Gap NFHS 2015-2016 data indicate that as many as 23 per cent Indian women have a lower-than-normal BMI whereas only 63 per cent have some say in decisions regarding their healthcare. Women make up only 12 per cent of management boards in Germany, behind countries such as the US (28.6 […]

  General Studies-1 Gender comparison/gap According to the 2018 edition of the All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), for the first time, there were as many women as men in BSc programmes — of 48.19 lakh students enrolled, 50.7 per cent were men and 49.3 per cent women. Their presence at the Master’s level was […]

General Studies-1 Health Indian health care is 70% private and 30% public 80% people have no protection for the health Out of pocket expense is high as 70% Out of 12 crore Ayushman Bharat card only 1.2 crore have taken advantage Inequality (Trend 1990-91 to 2018-19) General Studies -2 Immunisation: India runs one of the […]

    General Studies-1 Digital Divide 57 subscribers per 100 population in 2019 On an average, less than 3 out of10 women in rural India and 4 out of 10 women in urban India ever used the Internet, according to the NFHS-5. Only an average of 42.6 per cent of women ever used the Internet […]