Facts and Data
1.
Topic= # Indian Economy
🍄 India’s real GDP is 10 times what it was in 1990 and the share of global trade in India’s GDP has gone up by nearly 5 times.
Relevance=30 Years of LPG Reforms.
2.
Topic= #Indian Economy
🍄 The fiscal deficit for 2020-21 was 9.3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). For the current financial year (2021-22), the government expects the deficit at 6.8 % of GDP.
Relevance= FRBM act 2003.
3.
Topic= #Judiciary
🍄 According to international research published in 2018, failure to deliver timely justice cost the country as much as 9% of annual GDP.
Relevance - "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.
4.
Topic= #Energy
🍄 India, the U.S. and China are three of the largest fossil fuel emitters in the world though India and China are far more dependent on coal than the U.S.
Relevance - Recent Coal Crisis in India.
5.
Topic= #Women & Education - Interlinked
🍄 According to Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019, gap between learning outcomes of children with mothers who were educated upto Standard 12th or higher was 40% more than children of uneducated mothers.
Relevance - Data can be used to show how Education of a women is interlinked for the entire family.
Children's of Educated Mothers were able to Perform better.
#Population
🍄 India's Demographic Dividend:
• By 2030, India will have the largest working-age population in the world.
According to Economic Survey 2018-19, India’s working-age group population is projected to increase from 55.8% in 2021 to 58.8% by 2031.
Topic - Indian Econom
🍄 India’s real GDP is 10 times what it was in 1990 and the share of global trade in India’s GDP has gone up by nearly 5 times.
Relevance - 30 Years of LPG Reforms.
#Poverty
🍄 The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 2021, launched by UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), showed that 27.9% of India's population were multidimensionally poor.
#Health
🍄 According to NITI Aayog's latest report titled “Health Insurance for India’s Missing Middle”, atleast 30% of Indian population – 40 crore people do not have any financial cover for health expenses.
Relevance - This finding assumes important even as coverage of health insurance has increased substantially with the launch of the government's Ayushman Bharat scheme for 'deprived' families.
Topic - Judiciary
🍄 According to international research published in 2018, failure to deliver timely justice cost the country as much as 9% of annual GDP.
Relevance - "Backlog of cases"
#Women
Gender-gaps in COVID-19 Decision Making
🍄 A study published in British Medical Journal highlights that while “women comprise 70% of the global health workforce, they hold only 25% of senior decision-making roles”.
#Women
🍄 According to the UNFPA’s State of the World Population 2020, One in three girls missing globally due to sex selection, both pre- and post-natal, is from India.
Topic - Elections
🍄 According to Association for Democratic Reforms report, Over 55% donations to regional parties came from ‘unknown’ sources in 2019-20 fiscal.
Relevance - Electoral Bond Scheme.
Topic - Government Policies
🍄 The Cash to GDP ratio (as of Mar 2021) was 14.3% which is higher than the 11.9% in Mar 2016 (six months before demonetisation) and 8.5% in Mar 2017 (following the drastic measure that reduced cash in the economy).
• One of the stated objectives for demonetisation was the push for digital payments in order to reduce the currency to GDP ratio.
Relevance - 5 Years of Demonetisation
