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BE, RE Or Actuals: What Do You Need To Look At In The
WEBJan 31, 2022 — When you look at the new budget documents that will be published this February, look out for these three numbers: the budget estimates or BE, which will tell you what the government plans or had planned to allocate to each ministry, the revised estimates or RE, which will tell you how much the budget was …
As Climate Change Depletes Forests, One Of India’s Greenest …
WEBMar 23, 2019 — As one of India’s greenest states with 80% of its area under forests and trees, three times the Indian average, Meghalaya is unique and uniquely vulnerable, and most vulnerable are its irreplaceable rainforests, the survival of which holds lessons for the rest of India.. This is the sixth story in our series on India’s climate-change hotspots (you can read the first story here, the second ...
Women@Work - IndiaSpend
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has seen Indian women’s workforce participation rates--already among the world’s lowest--fall further. In November 2020, 2% fewer men but 13% fewer women were employed or looking for jobs than a year ago, data show. Urban women were the worst hit. As numerous development agencies have warned, and we have reported, the pandemic and the resultant economic downturn ...
In Assam’s Silchar, A Hospital Models Accessible Cancer
WEBNov 28, 2023 — In India, the national average of cancer cases for 2022 is 100.4 per 100,000 population. The northeastern states of India--Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Sikkim and Nagaland--report a higher cancer burden than the Indian average.Overall, India recorded 80-110 cancer cases per 100,000 people, but in its northeastern states, this number varied between 150 and 200 ...
‘India Needed $16.5 Billion For Biodiversity ... - IndiaSpend
WEBJul 3, 2022 — India needed about $16.5 billion between 2017-2022 under the Biodiversity Finance Plan. "And what we had from all sources is $10 billion. So there was a gap of $6.5 billion," Mathur, who has served for 33 years at the Wildlife Institute of India, and was its director from 2014 to 2019, told IndiaSpend.He was also appointed as the chairperson of the National Biodiversity Authority in September ...
How Indore Became India’s Cleanest City (And How Others Can …
WEBOct 2, 2019 — Indore, Madhya Pradesh: Every morning, garbage vans across Indore play the celebratory song, “Indore hua hai number one (Indore has become number one),” sung by Bollywood singer Shaan in 2017, when Indore was ranked first of 471 towns and cities on the government’s Swachhata Sarvekshan (cleanliness survey ) rankings. “Every day the garbage van makes its way from one end of the street ...
Climate Change: How Fast Fashion Hurts The Environment
WEBDec 22, 2021 — Around 165 companies, mostly fast fashion brands, are responsible for about 24% of textile and apparel sector emissions, said a November 2021 report by cKinetics. About 68% of clothes from brands like H&M and Gucci are made up of synthetic fibres, including elastane, nylon and acrylic. Polyester …
How Rooftop Solar Struggles Even In India's Most Sunny Cities
WEBJul 27, 2021 — Yet, as of December 2020, it makes for only about 20% of all the solar energy capacity installed in the country--6,792 MW of the total of 34,197 MW. To understand the reasons, we picked Nagpur, a central Indian city with 300 sunny days a year, for a two-part investigation. The average annual solar radiation in Nagpur is about 5.09 kWh/m2/day.
In 6 Charts: India's Health Before the Covid-19 Pandemic
WEBNov 25, 2021 — In six charts, we look at its highlights: India had over 480,000 cases of malaria and dengue in 2019. Pneumonia had the highest death rate of any communicable disease, with nearly 6 men for every 1,000 cases, and 5 women for every 1,000 cases, dying with the disease in 2019. Malaria and dengue were the …
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