As 2007 ends, a brief report card of the nation

Fact sheet India human rights and development record

Ø Two lakh Delhi people earn more than Rs 1 lakh a month each, but

Ø 89,362 farmers committed suicide between 1997 and 2005. Since 2002, that has become one suicide every 30 minutes.
Ø India has slipped five ranks since last year to 105 on global education parameters; will miss millennium development goals for children
Ø Girls 66 per cent of out-of-the-school children
Ø India's gross enrollment ratio 95 per cent, but dropout rate is as high as 14.4 per cent for Class I. Among the dropouts, about 66 per cent are girls
Ø India will not be able to meet the target of Education for All by 2015.
Ø One-third of world's illiterates are in India.
Ø 21 out of 28 States have internal armed conflicts. Are heavily militarised and the use special laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 that provides the power to shoot to kill
Ø There were a total of 3, 32,112 prisoners against the total capacity of 2, and 38,855 prisoners in the 1315 jails of the country as on 31 December 2004. 70 % are under trials.
Ø As on 2 December 2006, as many as 237 SEZs approved primarily allotting prime agricultural lands.
Ø Despite 450,000 conflict-induced internally displaced persons in Chhattisgarh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Mizoram and Tripura and Gujarat. India has no policy on IDPs and the Kashmiri Pandits are provided better facilities than the other conflict induced IDPs.
Ø 1 crime against women in every 3 minutes, 1 rape in every 29 minutes, 1 molestation in every 15 minutes, 1 dowry death case in every 77 minute in the country during 2005. NCRB recorded a total of 1,55,553 cases of Violence Against Women including 18,359 cases of rape involving 18,376 victims, 34,175 cases of molestation, 15750 cases of kidnapping, 6,787 cases of dowry deaths and 58,319 cases of torture in 2005.
Ø Dalits: 2005 NCRB reports 26,127 cases - 8,497 cases under the Protection of Civil Rights Act and 291 cases under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989 - against the Scheduled Castes. Conviction rate was only 29.8%. A total of 46,936 persons (82.4%) out of 57,804 persons arrested for crimes committed against Scheduled Castes were charge-sheeted but only 28.3% trials
Ø A crime against the tribals was committed in every 29 minutes. In 2005, a total of 5,713 cases against Scheduled Tribes were reported in the country as compared to 5,535 cases in 2004 showing an increase of 3.2% in 2005 from 2004. These included 1,283 cases reported under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989 and 162 cases under the Protection of Civil Rights Act. Average conviction rate was only 24.5%. A total of 8,273 persons (83.8%) out of 9,870 persons arrested for crimes committed against Scheduled Tribes were charge-sheeted but only 24.2% were convicted consisting of 1,934 persons out of 7,981 persons against whom trials were completed.