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20-year-olds are the backbone of a country. These are the years in a person's life when some are finishing their education and others are at the beginning of their career. Many get married and take on new responsibilities for their families. At 29, India has the youngest population in the world. People in this age group will work for the longest number of years today and thus contribute the most to the growth of the Indian economy. Using nationally representative data on consumption during the 2019-20 Survey for India, it has been explored how an average working youth in India spends their day and whether the pattern differs for men and women. According to the survey, about 78 percent and 70 percent of young men in rural and urban India were in paid work, respectively, and the same prop...

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94% Women Construction Workers Do Not Raise Voice Against Air Pollution In Delhi: Survey

Arpita SarkarJuly 30, 20220

A survey conducted by the NGO Mahila Housing Trust and the Help Delhi Breathe Campaign found that nearly 94 percent of women construction workers in Delhi do not raise their voices against air pollution at construction sites for fear of losing their jobs. The survey said that awareness has increased among women construction workers in Bakkarwala, Gokulpuri, and Saoda Ghebra areas, where two NGOs conducted a massive awareness campaign on air pollution recently, saying that such more awareness campaigns will not only lead to Behavioral change regarding air pollution but also creating more awareness and driving change at the ground level. As part of this awareness campaign in these three villages in Delhi, hundreds of women construction workers were targeted, which included mobiliza...

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Indian Men Still Don’t Prefer Working Women As Partners: Oxford

Arpita SarkarJuly 27, 20220

According to a 2022 study by Oxford University, women who are working are less likely to find matches on matrimonial sites than women who are not working. Diva Dhar, the doctoral candidate who conducted the experiment to test her theory, found that women who had never worked received 15 to 20 percent more interest than those who did. Basically, out of 100 men who respond to a woman who has never worked, only 78 to 85 will respond to a working woman. Dhar spends her time researching Indian women's participation in the labor force and how gender roles affect marriage and the lives of working women. The experiment began with her creating 20 fake profiles on a leading matrimonial website. They were similar in age, lifestyle choices, and diet, and the only differences were caste and w...

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62% Of Indian IELTS Candidates Find It Difficult To Speak English Fluently: Survey

Arpita SarkarJuly 22, 20220

A survey by Leap Scholar - a foreign study platform found that 62 percent of Indian students still face difficulty in English fluency and pronunciation. Founded in 2019, LeapScholar South Asia's largest study abroad platform has pioneered the 'platform way' of end-to-end services for students pursuing international education and careers. LeapScholar, a thriving community of over 2 million students, conducted a survey of 60,000 International English Language Testing System (IELTS) candidates. IELTS is a mandatory language proficiency test that students from non-English speaking countries have to take when applying for education in English-speaking countries. The LeapScholar survey revealed that although 71 percent of IELTS test takers studied English at school, they struggled to convers

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Indian Youngsters With Higher Education Giving Up On Marriage: Survey

Arpita SarkarJuly 19, 20220

A recent report issued by the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation provides some statistics on the state of marriage in India. The report noted, among other things, a decline in the number of young people willing to marry. Jammu and Kashmir top the list according to the report. It said, "The percentage share of the youth population (15-29 years) who are ‘never married’ has shown an increasing trend in the male population from 20.8 per cent in 2011 to 26.1 per cent in 2019 and a similar trend has been observed in the case of the female population." Apparently, the marriage age barrier also seems to have increased over time. Note that, “A significant decline in the age level of first marriage for women aged 25-29 has been observed as only 52.8 per cent of women got married b

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Exposure To Air Pollutants Causes Multiple Chronic Diseases: Study

Arpita SarkarJuly 1, 20220

Exposure to air pollutants, also known as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), is associated with a risk of clustering multiple chronic diseases, according to a new study published this week by PLOS Global Public Health. Some previous studies have provided ample evidence on the link between air pollution and individual chronic diseases. Although chronic diseases become clusters due to shared biological or environmental risk factors, there is a limited idea of how air pollution can promote the accumulation of multiple chronic diseases. In the new study, researchers Kai Hu and his colleagues, used data from 19,098 respondents to the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) survey from 2011 to 2015, as well as historical satellite data on PM2.5 exposure over 15 years. P...

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India Ranks Last In Environmental Health: Report

Arpita SarkarJune 10, 20220

India ranks last among 180 countries in the world in terms of environmental health judged for environmental performance by a US-based organization. Denmark topped the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) recently published by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, followed by the United Kingdom and Finland. EPI provides a data-driven summary of sustainable conditions around the world. Using 40 performance indicators across 11 issues, EPI ranks 180 countries on climate change effectiveness, environmental health and the vitality of ecosystems. These indicators provide a measure on a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals. The repor...