A new project which will attempt to gather comprehensive data on India’s 1/2 billion villages has begun.
The data collectors will gather information about the geographical features of a village, its infrastructure, schools and hospitals, number of toilets, access to roads, gender data and even information about the power consumption of the entire village.
I hope the data collected is as good as it sounds! It would certainly help development efforts to know what the situation is. Though I wonder what ‘gender data’ means, especially when listed along with other tangible items. In fact, ‘access to roads’ is not gender neutral as it may seem.
Via BBC.
