Resources

Research on Income Inequalities in India

1. Wealth-income ratios are rising everywhere. Put simply, the accumulation of wealth is outpacing economic growth.

2. As per the study from World Inequality Lab, the top 1% of India has 22.6% of the income and over 40% of the wealth.Based on Forbes data, national income from India’s billionaires grew from 1 percent in 1991 to 25 percent in 2022, showing the striking contrast in the growth of income earned by the ultra-rich in India.

3. According to a 2022 study, the percentage share of income and wealth is the highest in the top 10 percent of the population, with them holding 57.1 percent of income in India, and 64.6 percent of wealth in India

4. From a study of 14 slums in Bangalore covering over 1480 residents, it was found that the majority of residents could not come out of the slums for several generations

5. Bangalore is considered the Silicon Valley, but it is also home to close to a million underprivileged slum dwellers due to rapid urbanization

6. There are one billion people living in slums worldwide, and slums are rapidly expanding across the developing world. Yet slums are largely ignored by policymakers

7. Slums are zones of high risk and high downward mobility. The multiple informalities that characterize slum residents’ lives and livelihoods – informal jobs, informal dwellings, and in many cases, informal (i.e., undocumented) identities – cumulate to result in a high degree of precarity. As long as one remains in a slum, the potential level of upward mobility is likely to be capped and compromised by the prospect of a downward slide.

Research on MalNutrition among Children in India

1. There is a higher incidence of overweight children at 6.85% in Private Schools. There is a marked prevalence of underweight children at 44% in the Government schools in a cross sectional study of the nutritional status among 350 school children of ages 10 to 16 years as per research.

2. The overall prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity among primary school children of Mysore city was 385 (24.5%), 132 (8.4%), and 65 (4.1%), respectively. No obese child was found in government school, whereas underweight prevalence was more in government school (32.5%) when compared with private school (18.2%). The overweight prevalence was more in private school (14.9%) than government school (0.2%) as per research.

3. Consumption of school meals can have short term impacts on students’ effort through alleviation of hunger and higher attention in the classroom there by improving learning outcomes.

4. Poor health and nutrition during childhood affects educational access, social participation, income and academic achievement of a person throughout his life. School-based health and nutrition programs are providing a cost-effective and low-cost solutions to dealing with long term well-being of the population.

Research on Health and Fitness

10th Annual Health Survey of Private Schools from Sportz Village

1. Across all regions, more than two-thirds of the children don’t have healthy BMI

2. Children with more than 2 PE classes per week have better aerobic capacity.

10th Annual Health Survey of Public Schools from Sportz Village

1. 39% of Government school children are underweight compared to 15% in Private schools.

2. 35% of Government school children have healthy BMI compared to 47% from private schools.

Research on Habit Formation

1. 66 Days to form Habits and NOT 21 days

2. Behavioral Change Techniques for habit formation

3. Video - Forget Big Changes, Start with Tiny Habits

4. Impact of Incentives on Student Performance in India

5.Video - How to break habit cycle by Charles Duhigg

6. Video - Transformation through Atomic Habits by James Clear

7. Habit Formation among Children - Study at Carnegie Mellon

8. Habit Formation among Children - Study at Brown University

9. Parent Involvement Leads to Children’s success

What’s the most accurate predictor of Academic Achievement? It’s not socioeconomic status, nor how prestigious the school is that a child attends. The best predictor of student success is the extent to which families encourage learning at home and involve themselves in their child’s education.