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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
DID YOU
KNOW?
There are
around21.3 million cases currently pending in various courts in India including
the Supreme Court. The magnitude of this problem was vividly explained in a
magazine article last year which stated “if the nation’s judges attacked their
backlog nonstop with no breaks for eating or sleeping and closed 100 cases
every hour, it would take more than 35 years to catch up.”
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Food prices in
India constitute 46% of the consumer price index.
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There are
8.4 million known living species.
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Trucks in India
average just about 270 km in a day as against 800 km in the US because of check-post
delays at state borders, and GST would slash that. Economic optimists hope GST
will also improve the GDP by over Rs 100000 crore.
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India is now the world’s 3rd largest
economy in purchasing power parity terms.
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India still ranks 130th among 189
countries in ease of doing business.
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60% of india’s population remains
stuck in the villages which produces only 14%
of India’s income.
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India- 138
million people were raised above the poverty line between 2004 and 2012, a
world record.
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Municipal
capacity: Bengaluru and New York both have approximately 9 million
residents—New York employs over 4,00,000 city municipal workers whereas
Bengaluru has less than 30,000. So you can understand why Bengaluru is so
dirty.
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Sindh: Not a
single war weapon came from the excavations of Mohenjo-daro, indicating that
more things are wrought by cooperation than confrontation. Perhaps the concept
of non-violence came from here.
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India holds
the dubious distinction of having one of the highest traffic accident rates in
the world.
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Assam
produces 52% of India’s tea.
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According to
national judicial data grid of India, of the two crore plus cases pending in
lower courts till last year 10.83% were pending for over 10 years while 18.1 %
cases have been pending for the last 5-10 years.
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Dalits
constitute 20% of the population in India’s most populous state of Uttar
Pradesh.
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Aadhar has
been issued to nearly 100 crore people, and the benefits of Aadhar-linked
payments are evident in the direct cash transfer of cooking fuel subsidy.
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The US has
already passed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer by some
measures.
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In India
more than a million young persons are joining the workforce each and every
month.
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India has
fewer doctors than the WHO recommended minimum doctor population ratio of
1:1000.
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UN
recommends a ratio of more than 222 policemen/one lakh of population, India has
only 106.
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Traffic
accidents in India claim a life every three minutes.
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59% of India’s landmass is prone to earthquakes of
moderate to very high intensity.
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According to the 2006-07 all India MSME (Medium small
and micro enterprises) census, approximately 14% of the total enterprises in
the country are owned by SC/ST entrepreneurs, and they generate nearly 8
million jobs.
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Big foreign investments make big headlines. Yet India in
itself has a savings rate of 30% of GDP, and this once touched 37%. It is
contributed mainly by households and unincorporated businesses. FDI in India is
barely 1-2% of GDP.
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R-Vaidyanathan’s Book; India Inc… He estimates that
the share of the private corporate sector in GDP is under 18%, while of the
non-corporate sector is 45%. The share of the non-corporate sector is 64.6% in
construction, 74.2% in trade and hotels, 81.4% in transport (excluding
railways), 51.6% in storage and 60.8% in real estate. The services sector is the
biggest driver of growth in the last two decades.
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5 lakh
children die each year in India of malnutrition and 38% of our children are
stunted because of it.
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India’s future prosperity
depends on its urban centres which has already contribute a little over two
third of its GDP. Between census 2001 and 2011, India witnessed a spurt of
urban clusters, with the number of towns increasing from 5161 to 7935 in a
decade.
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It takes
3000 extra (unburned) calories to gain a pound of weight.
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The fine
particles—1/30th the width of a human hair—are cross continental
travellers. US research shows that the concentration of a particulate matter in
parts of the US doubles because of sandstorms in Saharan Africa. The
contribution of local dust to fine particles called PM2.5 is 26%. But Saharan
storms raise it to 64%.
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A study by
IIT showed that dust contributed 35% of particulates in Delhi.
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Iran’s oil
production was 2 million barrels per day (mbpd) it has dropped to half. It has
the largest oil reserves in the world.
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Indian farm
sector provides employment to close to half the workforce in the country.
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Larger
allocations should also be made for extending drip irrigation as India now uses
up three to four times more water per unit of output as compared to other
countries.
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