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IndiaSpend is the country’s first data journalism initiative. We utilise open data to analyse a range of issues with the broader objective of fostering better governance, transparency and accountability in the Indian government. Founded in late 2011 by Govindraj Ethiraj, a television and print journalist and former Founder Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg TV India, IndiaSpend is rapidly growing to become an `agency of record’ when it comes to data and facts on the Indian economy, particularly in areas like education and healthcare as well as data on the states of India. Given the general nature of hard data, not just in India but worldwide, we feel there is a need and an opportunity to focus on critical data that can help the country at large take objective views on important policy issues and foster data-led discussion and analysis. We do believe this will become more important in coming years as citizens become a more active part of the governance process. A twin objective is also to make the use of data exciting and a first recourse for young India, rather than opinion, by utilising various social media sources to reach this population. IndiaSpend is a non-profit and a project of The Spending & Policy Research Foundation located in Lower Parel in Mumbai, and registered as a Charitable Trust with the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai. Source

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Why India's Rising Health Insurance Cover Is Not Cutting Medical Bills

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By Prachi Salve
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Mumbai: India has nearly tripled health insurance coverage over the past seven years, according to data from the National Sample Survey’s (NSS) 80th Round. Yet the average household spends more out of pocket on medical care. This is because insurance is built almost entirely around hospitalisation, leaving routine outpatient visits, medicines, and non-medical costs such as transport and lodging unprotected.
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Safety Rules Routinely Flouted In India’s Factories

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By Vijay Jadhav
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Pune: Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate faulty machinery leading to accidents and injuries, many of which are not counted in official statistics, a new report shows. For instance, India’s labour rules mandate a 48-hour limit per week for factory workers, but this limit is routinely ignored.
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Why A Decline In Domestic Violence Cases Hides Persisting Patriarchal Attitudes

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By Saumya Tewari
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Mumbai: The average day for 31-year-old Ganga (not her real name) starts at 6 a.m. She cooks and packs food for her children aged six and eight, drops them off at school, and leaves for work. After nine hours at work, she comes back home and cooks dinner for the family. On most nights, her husband consumes alcohol and beats her. Ganga frequently tells employers and friends about her aching arms or hurting back from the previous night's assault, often laughing it off as a routine occurrence.
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How India Must Support Oilseed Farmers

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By Charu Bahri
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Mount Abu, Rajasthan: India meets only 44% of its domestic demand for edible oil and spends more than $20 billion a year on imports, a bill that is bound to increase with the war in West Asia disrupting global supply chains and India’s foreign currency reserves under strain. Already, IndiaSpend’s Food Price Watch has recorded significant year-on-year price increases across different edible oils.
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#DataViz: India Registered 512 Crimes Against Children Every Day In 2024

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By Vijay Jadhav
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Pune: India registered 187,702 crimes against children in 2024, or 512 on average every day, the highest in the last 10 years, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Cases doubled since 2015, with an increase every year except in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kidnapping and abduction accounted for two in five registered cases in 2024, while offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act accounted for more than a third.
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Interview: What The 2026 El Niño Means For India

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By Tanvi Deshpande Verified
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Mumbai: After a season of intense heatwaves, India will not have a lot of respite this monsoon, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting a ‘below normal’ monsoon season. On Friday, IMD further downgraded its monsoon forecast to 90% of the long-period average as against the earlier 92%, and forecast a warmer June. One reason will be an ‘El Niño’ brewing in the Pacific Ocean that can lead to a weak monsoon.
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The Missing Policy Push To PM Modi’s Fertiliser Reduction Appeal

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By Charu Bahri
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Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent appeal to farmers to reduce the use of chemical fertilisers by 25-50% had shades of his Independence Day speeches in 2019 and 2025, wherein he had appealed for the judicious use of chemical fertilisers. In this time, India’s chemical fertiliser use has increased 15%, from 61.4 million metric tonnes to 70.8 million metric tonnes.
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Extreme Heat Imperils Chronic Disease Patients In Informal Settlements

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By Hemanth Chandu, Pavani Pendyala
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Vijayawada and Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Within hours of sunrise, the two-room flats in the government-constructed apartment in New Rajarajeshwari Peta in Vijayawada feels like a pot on a stove. By 11 a.m., Vidya (name changed) sits outside her home with her neighbours under the shade of a tree. The women chat and laugh, relieved to escape the summer heat inside the house.
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For India’s Road Accident Survivors, Legal Compensation Is Elusive

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By Prachi Salve
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Mumbai: Shoba Kshirsagar, 55, a waste-picker in Pune, became the sole breadwinner overnight after her 35-year-old son, who worked alongside her, was injured in a road accident in November last year. A dumper truck hit him while he was returning from work, leaving him with a crushed ankle. First, a private hospital refused treatment citing the family’s inability to pay. Later, Sany Sadashiv got surgery which involved insertion of a metal rod.
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In Delhi's Scorching Heat, Its Poorest Women Are Back To The Chulha

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By Shivam Bhardwaj
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New Delhi: Parveena Khatun, 45, runs a tea stall on Baba Gangnath Marg in Delhi’s Munirka. The shortage of cooking gas cylinders has affected Parveena’s income. When supplies fell in March, she kept her stall closed for a week but without the income, survival became difficult. Then, she built a brick stove (chulha), bought coal and gathered firewood. In Delhi’s intense summer, working throughout the day on a chulha is dangerous.
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Deshpande, Tanvi
Ethiraj, Govindraj
Iqbal, Nushaiba
Madhavapeddi, Karthik
Saluja, Romita
Salve, Prachi