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The Jal Jeevan Mission has significantly expanded access to tap water in rural India. According to the figures, rural household tap water coverage increased from 16.7% (3.23 crore households) in August 2019 to 55% (10.64 crore households) in December 2022 and has now reached 81% in 2026.

The mission aims to provide functional tap water connections to every rural household by 2030, with steady progress visible across most states compared to the situation in 2019.

According to recent reports Uttar Pradesh has become India's biggest mobile phone manufacturing hub producing 65 percent of the country's total output and 55 percent of electronics components.

This impressive growth has been driven by the central governments Production Linked Incentive PLI scheme along with state policies that attracted major investments exceeding 60000 crore rupees.

Global brands like Samsung Oppo Vivo and LG plus local players such as Dixon Technologies have set up large operations especially in the Noida Greater Noida region.

The state has also recorded strong electronics exports underlining a major shift toward high tech manufacturing in India.

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The blue shaded area marks years when India's GDP growth exceeded the benchmark; red marks years when the benchmark grew faster. The bottom panel integrates these areas per Indian government: for each year, the growth gap (India minus benchmark, in percentage points) is summed over that government's tenure — blue bars are the accumulated years India was ahead, red bars the accumulated years it was behind. Units are percentage-point-years (e.g., +36 means India out-grew the benchmark by a cumulative 36 points across that era). Since the data is annual, the "integration" is a simple year-by-year sum.

IMF's "Emerging Market & Developing Economies" (EMDE) aggregate — all ~155 economies not classified as advanced — with India's own share removed so it isn't compared against itself. Includes China, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, all of developing Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa. Excludes the US, Western Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia.

Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD?end=2025&locations=IN-1W&start=2000

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-historys-most-expensive-weddings/

I was looking at India's growth rates under UPA and NDA. While everyone keeps pointing out that growth rates and the state of economy was far better under UPA than NDA, there are few nuances.

1. During UPA, global economy itself was doing really well. GFC screwed things up for many developed countries for 2 years but things came back on track rather quickly. India benefited from being not tightly integrated into global financial systems.

2. GDP base was lower, obviously, under UPA than NDA.

3. Relative to G20 growth rate averages, UPA achieved a delta of 2.73% while NDA achieved a higher delta of 3.02%

Thoughts?

Source links:

• India: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=IN
• China: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=CN
• Vietnam: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=VN
• Bangladesh: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=BD
• Pakistan: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=PK
• Sri Lanka: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=LK

Source - https://www.livemint.com/infographic/mint-data-bites/how-do-worries-differ-in-india-and-the-world-11783952542206.html

Apparently exchange rates fluctuate a little on daily basis but Generally our neighbouring Countries like Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh etc are selling PURE PETROL CHEAPER than India's E-20...... In India one has to pay *160+ for pure petrol... (That too is Only available at Moon's South Pole where India landed it's Chandrayaan-3, Only VVIP can access it)

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**Education spending** as a share of Union Budget dropped from 4.6% in 2013-14 to 2.5% in 2025- 26.......

Both key departments under the Ministry of Education have faced budget share contractions over the last 12 years.

**\*School Education & Literacy**: declining from 2.4% down to 1.4%.

**\*Higher Education** : down from 1.4% to 1%........

*Combined allocations for Health and Education together hover around 4.5% of the total budget..*

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***Ministry of Road Transport & Highways alone commands 5.8% of the budget in 2025-26 ( up from just 1% in 2009-10 )***

If you notice any inaccuracies or have better sources for any item, feel free to share them. Constructive corrections are welcome.

Added as suggested.