Some observations in the report:

• India is suffering from "the worst water crisis" in its history with about
  • 60 crore people facing high to extreme water stress;
  • 2 lakh people dying every year due to inadequate access to safe water.
• By 2030, the country's water demand is projected to be twice the available supply, implying severe water scarcity for hundreds of millions of people and an eventual 6 per cent loss in the country's GDP.
• With nearly 70 per cent of water being contaminated, India is placed at 120th among 122 countries in the water quality index.
• Currently, 600 million Indians face high to extreme water stress and about two lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to safe water.
• There is an imminent need to deepen understanding of water resources and usage.

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Statement 2 is correct. Microorganisms that develop antimicrobial resistance are sometimes referred to as "superbugs".

There has been a long felt need for a national architecture for promoting convergence, ensuring effective governance and regulation of skill training and catalysing industry efforts in vocational training space. The two schemes shall address this need by setting up national bodies which shall regulate accreditation and certification in both long and short term Vocational Education and Training (VET). The architecture shall help, for the first time in the history of vocational education in India, to converge the efforts of various central, state and private sector institutions thereby avoiding duplication of activities and bringing about uniformity in vocational training thus, creating better impact.

The two schemes are outcome-focused schemes marking shift in government's implementation strategy in vocational education and training from inputs to results.

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Every five years, an agricultural census is conducted in India. First such census was done in 1970s and the reference year for the first Agriculture Census was 1970-71. Under this scheme, centre provides funds to states and entire work is done by the states only.

The responsibility of conducting the decennial Census rests with the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India under Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times.

It may be of historical interest that though the population census of India is a major administrative function; the Census Organisation was set up on an ad-hoc basis for each Census till the 1951 Census. The Census Act was enacted in 1948 to provide for the scheme of conducting population census with duties and responsibilities of census officers.

The Government of India decided in May 1949 to initiate steps for developing systematic collection of statistics on the size of population, its growth, etc., and established an organisation in the Ministry of Home Affairs under Registrar General and ex-Officio Census Commissioner, India.

This organisation was made responsible for generating data on population statistics including Vital Statistics and Census. Later, this office was also entrusted with the responsibility of implementation of Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 in the country.

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