INTERESTING FACTS

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 1. In the world scenario India is very important because of its size. So, for the world to do well, India needs to do well.

2.   India is one of the world’s most flood prone countries with 113 million people exposed to it. According to a UN report India’s average annual economic loss due to disasters is estimated to be $9.8 billion, out of which more than $7 billion loss is due to floods.

3.   Around 30% Americans get less than seven hours of sleep per night, and among them in case of single mothers the figure rises to 47%.

4.   Bengaluru was once a city of 2,500 lakes. It boasted of an efficient and strong water drainage system of interconnected lakes. If one lake overflowed, water would automatically flow to another lake. But with increasing encroachment and solid wastes blocking the channels, floodwater cannot flow to the next water body.

5.    Hyderabad has reported extinction of 375 lakes and in Delhi out of 611 water bodies 274 bodies have dried up due to neglect and exploitation.

6.   In India Waqf properties have become reservoirs of corruption, instead of being a resource to serve the poor in the community.

7.    Indian Railways: 2016-17 period saw more people die in derailments than in any of the last 17 years. And of the 586 rail accidents in the last five years, around 53% were due to derailments.

8.   Japan’s Shinkansen ‘bullet’ trains have been operating without fatality for over 50 years.

9.     In India more than 85% of its train accidents are ascribed to human failure

10.                      Alignment of sun, moon, and earth causes the eclipse.

11.The one river in the country that did not reach the ocean was the Lavanyavati in Rajasthan which dried up in the desert.

12.                       The Ganga and the Indus are now among the most endangered rivers on the planet.

13.                       The kaveri is probably 40% of what it used to be 50 years ago.

14.                       For the last Kumbha mela in Ujjain, water had to be pumped in from the narmada to create an artificial river, because there was no water in the kshipra river.

15.                       Smaller rivulets of India don’t even reach the main river, they dry up along the way because of the blockades.

16.                       Human body is 72% water.

17.                       Agriculture contributes about 17% of the GDP but employs around 50% of the country’s workforce.

18.                      Of the 7132 cases of stalking registered in 2016 only 379 resulted in convictions—a rate of only 5%.

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By Kamlesh Tripathi

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DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS

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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 3^rd largest economy in purchasing power parity terms.

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India still ranks 130^th 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—1/30^th 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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