Analysis: Indian family health survey results

National family health survey 2005-06 released by Ministry of Health revealed true colors of India. 50% of Indian women still lack proper care during pregnancy and delivery. This survey was conducted on 0.12 million Indian women (15-49 age group) and 74,369 men (15-54 age group).

Positive findings in the health survey:

1. Infant mortality rate is decreased (68 per 1000 births).
2. Family planning especially among women is on rise and fertility is down.
3. Southern states are showing vast improvement in health care.
4. Contraception use is improving along with rise in average marriage age.
5. Institutional births are rising but only 30% of women are receiving post-natal care.
6. Indian parents are recommending moral and sex education in schools especially women.

Negative findings:

1. Malnutrition and anemia are common among Indian children.
2. Domestic violence is increasing despite rise in female education.
3. No improvement in child immunization (only 42%).
4. Obesity in women is rising especially among urban women.
5. Indian parents are still showing preference to girls due to dowry problem.
6. 40% of women experienced sexual violence in their lives.
7. Only 30% of women received antenatal care. Absence of lady doctors in rural areas is a major concern.
8. Disparity in urban and rural health care is growing as most doctors are not willing to work in rural areas.
9. DIarrhoea is still a major health problem in India.
10. 70% of Indian children are anemic due to poor economic standards.

This survey highlighted growing disparity among rich and poor Indians in receiving proper health care. Government need to allocate more budget to health care.

Top TV news channels in India

Top English TV news Channels: NDTV is the most popular English news channel in India followed by CNN IBN. Times Now is closely following the leaders. Top 3 channels command more than 85% of English news viewership.

Market share of English news channels:

1. NDTV – 31%.
2. CNN IBN – 30%.
3. Times Now – 25%.
4. Headlines Today – 14%.

Top Hindi TV News Channels:

Aaj Tak is the leading Hindi news channel in India followed by Star News. Sensational tactics pushed India TV to No.3 slot.

1. Aaj Tak – 22% market share.
2. Star News – 19%.
3. India TV – 15%.
4. Zee News and IBN – 10%.
5. NDTV India – 8%.

Is there any space for more news channels in Indian Television space?

Source: TAM and Business World.

Best hospitals in India

The Week-IMRB Survey selected 10 best hospitals in India. The survey was done in 15 cities and 15 specialisations. It represented the views of 1,239 specialists and 609 general practitioners.

Top 10 hospitals in India:

1. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.

2. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai

3. PGIMER, Chandigarh.

4. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

5. NIMHANS, Bangalore.

6. Sankara Nethralaya – Chennai.

7. Lilavati Hospital – Mumbai.

8. Apollo Hospitals – Delhi.

9. Christian Medical College – Vellore.

10. Escorts heart Institute – Delhi.

Major High Lights of the survey:

1. AIIMS is the best Orthopaedic, Paediatric and Gynaecology hospital in India.
2. Sankara Nethralaya is the best eye hospital.
3. Apollo is the top hospital in Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

4. Manipal is the top hospital in Bangalore.
5. Escorts is the top choice for cardiology.
6. Tata Memorial is the number one Oncology hospital in India.

7. Gap is more widened between the top hospitals and others.
8. Nagpur hospital is the only government hospital in the first rank in any city.

For more information, read The Week magazine dated May 6, 2007.

Review: Mid Term Survey results on Indian political situation

In a recently conducted survey by Hindustan Times-CNN-IBN on 15,000 voters in 970 cities and villages in 21 states indicated that UPA will return to power without support from Left parties. As per survey, BJP will get around 115 seats. 76% of voters are satisfied with the Government performance.
As per survey, UPA came to power with more than 300 Loksabha seats if elections are held.
According to the survey carried out by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Sonia Gandhi is the most popular leader of the country, while former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ranked second. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh came third while BSP supremo Mayavati is in nthe fourth spot.

Chief Ministers:

NDA chief ministers grabbed the top spots in the chief ministers list. Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik is best chief minister while Nitish Kumar of Bihar came second. Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy dropped to tenth place. Shiela Dixit is the most unpopular chief minister in the country.

Please comment on the survey.

Times of India survey on Indian of the year

Amitab Bachchan Comfortably won the Indian of the year survey done by Times of India newspaper in five Indian Metros. Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar stood in the second place.

Business man of the year:

Anil Ambani was selected as Busines man of the year while Ratan Tata got second place.

Entertainer of the year:

Amitabh Bachchan got away with top rank and Tamil super star Rajnikant stood at second.

Sports person of the year:

Sachin tendulkar got first rank while tennis girl Sania Mirza got second place.

Politician of the year:

Sonia Gandhi ranked as number one politician in the Times poll and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh second.

NRI of the year:

L.N.Mittal got first place.

My opinions:

This survey was done in only five metros and only among 1,000 voters. Even big cities like Hyderabd and Pune are not included in this survey. May be Times of India has got no funds to select more voters in other cities. Why did they do these rubbish surveys with very few voters?

If you really want to know the pulse of the Nation, do it sincerely.

I cann't understand why English media continuously neglect rural people and failed to predict the nation's mood. In 2004 Loksabha elections, they gave thumping victory to BJP. We all know what happened afterwards.

My advice to India media is don't fool people by publishing superficial and unauthentic surveys.

Blogging habits of Indians

These are reports from MSN India's windows live report on blogging habits of Indians.

• 42% of blogs are for event updates while 49% for entertainment.


• Growth is there: 14% of Indian netizens are involved in active blogging.


• Surprise: Only 40% of Indian netizens are aware of blogging.


• Male domination: 76% of bloggers in India are males.


• 50% of blog readers are interested in blogs by business leaders next comes politicians.


• 45% believe in blog content as much as traditional media.


• 54% of bloggers are aged between 25-34 years.


• 60% of bloggers are using their blogs to express passionate views.


• 90% of bloggers spend up 5 hours a week in reading or updating blogs.
  

Source: Blogging in India, a windows live report.

Do you agree with the report.

Vote for NDTV Indian of the year

NDTV is conducting an online and SMS poll for "Indian of the year". You can vote online by clicking the link below or send an SMS TO 6388.

The nominees are:


1. Ratan Tata

2. Sachin Tendulkar


3. Leander Paes


4. Kiran Desai


5. Indra Nooyi


6. Arvind Kejriwal


7. Chaman Lal Mattoo


8. Aishwarya Rai


9. Aamir Khan


10. Munnabhai



To vote for Indian of 2006, click here.


I vote for Ratan Tata for his dynamic leadership and great aspirations. He turned TATA companies into GLOBAL Tigers by aggressive acquisitions.

India's top 5 Business houses

These are the results of an exclusive survey conducted for Business Barons among CEOs and senior managers by Market Resonance. The clear winner: The Reliance Industries group, followed by the Tata group and Wipro.

India's largest private sector business house, the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries group, is perceived as the most respected business house in India with score of 9.42.

Ranked second in the Business Barons-Market Resonance poll is the house of Tata (8.04), followed by Wipro (7.37), the Aditya Birla group (7.33) and the resurgent house of Bajaj (7.08).

In the parameter "ability to raise funds", the Aditya Birla group (8.09), however, scores over Wipro (7.79) and is ranked third after Reliance and Tata.

Overall, it is clear that Reliance is regarded as India's top business house in aggregate terms as well as on the five individual parameters.

CONCLUSION:

Reliance Industries was voted as the no. 1 business house rated at 9.42 on the basis of world scale growth, speed of project implementation, vision, ability to raise funds and leadership as the 5 considered parameters.

It was followed by Tata rated at 8.04 on a scale of 10 in the No. 2 spot. The No. 3 spot was occupied by Wipro which scored 7.37. The No. 4 and 5 positions were occupied by A.V. Birla with a score of 7.33 and Bajaj with a score of 7.08 respectively.

Source : Business Barons

Vote for our Taj Mahal - New 7 Wonders

There is less than a year left to vote for the new Seven Wonders of the World.

The Taj is still strongly in the reckoning but needs all the votes it can get to make it to the final list of seven. New7Wonders describes Shah Jahan’s architectural paean to his beloved as the greatest symbol of love and passion. It is located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Much in the fashion of a gigantic beauty pageant, 77 finalists were narrowed down to 21 this year, and the final seven will be chosen from among them. The Taj Mahal is one of the 21.

The campaign of Swiss non-profit organization New7Wonders began in 2000 and the announcement will be made on July 7, 2007 -- appropriately 07.07.07 - in Lisbon, Portugal.

About 20 million votes have already been received and the 21 finalists were those that had garnered the most votes till the end of 2005.

Apart from voting for a favourite wonder online or on telephone, one can also send in pictures of the 21 finalist monuments.

You can vote for the Taj Mahal, Symbol of Love at www.new7wonders.com

Vote for our Taj Mahal. It is the best and must see tourism spot for anyone.

Digit is India's number one technology magazine.

According to latest 2006 National Readership Survey,

Digit is India's number one technology magazine followed by PC Quest and DATAQUEST.

Digit - 3,28,000

PC Quest - 1,67,000

Dataquest - 1,28,000

Chip and PC world magazines are way behind.