More than 50% of the Convicts in Prisons by the end of 2017 were serving Life Imprisonment
By the end of 2017, there were a total of 1.39 lakh convicts serving their…
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One has to wait till October 2020 or more to know which parties benefitted from Electoral Bonds
Access here Comprehensive Data on Electoral Bonds (as of February 2024) More than ₹ 6,000 crore worth…
Maharashtra still accounts for 1/3rd of the Farmer suicides in the country
The NCRB recently released the ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India’ report for 2016 after…
More than 70% of the under-trial prisoners are either illiterate or have studied only up to Class X
The NCRB’s 2017 report on prison statistics reveals that the proportion of under-trials in Indian…
The Southern states account for 58% of the value of goods produced by prison inmates in 2017, lead the way in reformation
Reformation of inmates is one of the primary goals of prisons. The NCRB 2017 report…
What is the status of Crime in the 19 large Indian cities?
In two previous stories about the NCRB report on Crime in India-2017, we looked at…
Adult Literacy: Reviewing the ‘Saakshar Bharat’ programme
India made considerable progress in ‘Adult Literacy’ in the last few decades. However, as per…
Part 2: Does NCRB crime data present an accurate picture of crime on ground?
In part 2 of this series, we look at various categories of violent crime and…
What changed in the NCRB’s ‘Crime in India’ report 2017?
Every year, the NCRB includes, excludes & merges some of the data in its flagship…
Part 1: What does the NCRB report tell us about the State of Crime in India?
The NCRB report is the primary source of state level crime data. In a two-part…
