General Studies – 1 Crime against Women: According to NCRB in India, the total number of crimes against women fell from 4, 05,326 in 2019 to 3, and 71,503 last year. The majority of the cases registered were related to “cruelty by husband or his relatives” (30%), followed by “assault on women with […]

    General Studies – 1 Daily Facts: According to the latest data, 37.9 per cent of children under five are stunted, and 20.8 per cent are wasted — forms of malnutrition in which children are too thin for their height. This is much higher than in other developing countries where, on average, 25 per […]

    General Studies – 1 Rape: According to the latest data published by the National Crime Records Bureau (2019), a woman is raped in India every 15 minutes Hidden Hunger: Nearly two billion people around the world suffer from low intakes of vitamins (for example, vitamin A) and key minerals (for example, iron, and zinc) […]

    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 […]

    General Studies – 1 Children during pandemic A total of 1,742 children were orphaned, 140 abandoned and 7,464 children have lost one parent because of the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020, as per National Commission for Child Rights (NCPCR). 9,346 in total — are in need of care and that 3,711 children are […]

    General Studies – 1 Women as elector and elected representative Women have been a mainstay of Banerjee’s support base in past elections; and analysis of the 2021 verdict suggests that 50 per cent women voted for Trinamool Congress compared to 37 per cent support for the BJP (Lokniti-CSDS). In these elections, for instance, […]

    General Studies – 1 Mental health According to the National Mental Health Survey 2015-16, close to 150 million Indians were in need of mental healthcare support Not only does India lack in resources (one psychiatrist for 1 lakh patients) and budgetary allocations, society has not yet developed a vocabulary that allows an articulation […]

    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 […]