Up to 43% of women in the working age (about 153 million) in India only do domestic work, indicating the scale of their exclusion from the workforce.

* A quarter of Indians (300 million) are illiterate, with 10% of those aged six to 14 dropping out of school.

* Nearly half of all homes (47%) lack piped drinking water and sanitation.

• About 88% of diarrhoeal deaths are caused by poor sanitation.
  
  These are some reminders of the scale of India’s continuing backwardness–despite economic progress–and the linkages between poverty, health and access to a better quality of life, explained in the India Exclusion Report (IXR) 2015, released on Saturday, March 5, by New Delhi’s Centre for Equity Studies.

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