FACTS

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• Water Scarcity
• RTI
• Digital India
• Criminal Justice
• Energy
• Diaspora
• NGO
• Juvenile Justice
• Parliament
• R&D
• Economy
• Health
• Education
• Inequality
• Poverty
• Food Processing
• Disaster
• Unemployment & Skilling
• Corruption
• Jan Dhan
• Urbanisation
• Judiciary
WATER SCARCITY

• India has 18% of the world population, but only 4% of

fresh water resources

• Agriculture has highest usage: 85-90%

RTI

• Around 50 Lakh applications per annum

• 1% of electorate uses RTI every year

• At least 2% used the law

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 DIGITAL INDIA

• Mobile users : 120 crore mobile subscriptions

• Internet users : 45 crores monthly active users

• [Digital Divide] Rural-Urban: Internet penetration in urban

India is about 64%; it’s 20% in villages

• Gender divide: 50% all Indian men have a mobile phone,

fewer than one in three women have one.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• Police numbers - 129/1 lakh

• World average - 350/1lakh

• One Rape reported every 15 min

• Rape conviction rate less than 32% [NCRB]

• 67 per cent of prisoners in India's jails under

trials

• Jail occupancy - 139%

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 ENERGY

• Installed power capacity : 366 GW

• Renewables: 83 GW

• Share of Renewables: 17%

• 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022

DIASPORA

• 17.5 million, largest in the world

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 NGOs

• 31 Lakh NGOs

• 3000 NGOs got over ︎22000cr

• Only 10% filed annual returns

JUVENILE JUSTICE

• NCRB : 1.2% of total serious crimes by

juveniles

• Vast majority of those juvenile crimes (more

than 80%) are by 16 - 18 year olds

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 PARLIAMENT

• ADR Report: 43% of Lok Sabha MPs have criminal record

• 83% of MPs are crorepatis

• More than 85% of funds - less than ︎20000(anonymous)

• Women’s representation has steadily increased in the Lok

Sabha. In the first-ever election, only 5% of the House
consisted of women. Now, that has increased to 14%.

• Gender Gap Index: India ranked 112th out of 153

countries (WEF)

R&D

• Currently India spends 0.6% of GDP on

R&D, China - 2.1% of GDP, South Korea -
4.2% of GDP

• Global Innovation Index Rank- 52nd /129

countries

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 ECONOMY

• India GDP : $2.9 Trillion [Nominal]

• GDP per capita : $2172 per person [Nominal]

• Agriculture : contributes 15% to GDP, 50% population

dependent on it

• Industry: contributes 23% to GDP, 16% dependent

• Service: contributes 61% to GDP, 34% dependent

• Exports : $330B

• Imports : $506B

• Trade Deficit: $176B

• Fiscal deficit : 3.4%

• Current Account Deficit: $57.2 billion [2.1% of GDP]

• FDI : $65B (Major investment from: Mauritius, Singapore,

Netherlands, Japan, USA)

• Retail inflation: 3.4%

• Cash-GDP - 12%

• Tax-GDP - 11% [OECD average- 31%]

• Gross NPAs- 9% of total loans [Down from 11.2% in FY

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 HEALTH

• HDI : 129th/189 countries

• MMR: 122 per 1 lakh live births

• IMR: 33 per 1000 live births

• 51% of Indian women are anaemic

• Around 70% of healthcare delivery is owned by private

sector, which has led to a high out-of-pocket expenditure
of 67 percent.

• 43% of Under 5 children are underweight, 58% are

stunted

• India spends 1.2% of GDP on health; WHO recommends

5% of GDP for better health outcomes

• Number of doctors— 0.7 per 1000 population; WHO

recommends at least 2 per 1000 population

• Global Hunger Index: IN 2019, India ranked 102 out of

117 countries

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 EDUCATION

• QS Higher Education rankings: In top 500, China has 22

universities, India has 9

• GER of 25% in Higher education. South Korea: 93%

• No Indian university in the top 300 in World University

Rankings 2020, published by Times Higher Education.

• ASER(2019) : At least 25% of school children in the four-

eight age group do not have age-appropriate cognitive
and numeracy skills.

• Just 37% of children below six are able to recognise at

least letters and only 25.6% can do additions, according
to the report.

• Similarly, only 34.8% of children in Class II can read a

text meant for the level below.

• Govt expenditure on Education : less than 4% of GDP;

Target- 6%

• Gender Gap in Literacy: 80.9% for men and 64.60% for

women

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 INEQUALITY

• 1% owns 58% wealth (oxfam)

• India: 8 billionaires hold same wealth as the poorest 50%

• World: Top 8% own 85% of global wealth

• India is among the countries with highest no. of

billionaires

• 63 richest persons in India hold wealth higher than Union

Budget of 2018-19

POVERTY

• Around 22% of the population is below

poverty line

• 138 million exited poverty 2005 - 2013 (BPL

percentage reduced from 37% to 22%)

• More than 3 Lakh farmers committed

suicide in last two decades

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FOOD PROCESSING

• 100% FDI in automatic route

• Potential to create 9 million jobs by 2024

• India’s huge potential: 300 million tonnes of annual food

grain production; 7200km coast line

• India ranks second in the world in food and vegetable

production. Only 2.2% of these are processed, compared
to 65% in US, 78% in the Philippines.

• Nearly 40% of the food produced in India is wasted or

lost.

DISASTER

• World Bank estimates loss due to natural

disasters is : $900B per year

• Vulnerability statistics for India: 65% is

prone to drought; 5% - flood;
59% - seismic hazard; 8% - cyclones

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UNEMPLOYMENT &
SKILLING

• Informal sector : More than 85-90% workforce is informal

• Less than 5% rural youth are skilled

• 65% of the country comes under working age population

(15-59)

• 50% of the population is less than 25yrs

• Employment increased at a CAGR of 3.3% over a four-

year period from 2014-15 to 2018-19 compared with a
CAGR of 7.5% in gross domestic product (GDP) during
this period.

• 10 million enter workforce every year for the next decade

CORRUPTION

• Corruption Perception Index by

Transparency International - India ranked
78th out of 180 countries

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JAN DHAN

• Beneficiary Accounts - 35 cr

• Deposits - 1 Lakh Crore

• Rupay Debit Cards - 28 cr

• Over 50 per cent of the Jan-Dhan account holders are

women

URBANISATION

• Currently it's 31% of population live in

urban areas; By 2050, the figure is
estimated to be 70%

• Urban areas contribute around 60-65% of

GDP

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 JUDICIARY

• Total pendency: Around 3 crore cases

• In Supreme Court alone - 65000 cases

• 85% cases take 10-12 yrs (DAKSH report)

• Currently we have 18 judges per 10 lakh population;

Recommended: 50 judges per every 10 lakh

• 20% vacancies in lower courts

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