Gross Worth Added in agriculture per employee rose by 54% between FY16 and FY 25

Proportion of inhabitants utilizing improved ingesting water sources in rural areas elevated to almost 100 per cent in FY25 from 94.57 per cent in FY16.
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Gross Worth Added (GVA) per employee in agriculture has elevated by 54 per cent between fiscal years (FY) 2015-16 and 2024-25, said a report by the Statistics Ministry launched on Sunday. It additionally highlighted that the variety of individuals coated by social safety programs has risen practically thrice throughout the identical interval.

The report, titled ‘The Sustainable Growth Targets – Nationwide Indicator Framework (SDG-NIF) Progress Report, 2025’, was launched by Rao Inderjit Singh, Statistics and Programme Minister, on Sunday. It said that the GVA in agriculture per employee rose to ₹94,110 in FY25 from ₹61,247 in FY16, indicating improved agricultural productiveness and revenue per employee within the nation. The SDGs NIF serves because the spine for monitoring SDGs on the nationwide degree, providing priceless steering to policymakers and the implementing companies of assorted schemes and programmes.

Additional, it mentioned that the inhabitants coated by social safety programs/flooring has elevated to 64.3 per cent in 2025 from from 22 per cent in 2016. Proportion of inhabitants utilizing improved ingesting water sources in rural areas elevated to almost 100 per cent in FY25 from 94.57 per cent in FY16, indicating vital progress towards common protected water entry in rural India. Throughout this era, the share of renewable power within the whole put in electrical energy era rose to over 22 per cent as in opposition to round 16 per cent.

Waste administration

The put in renewable power producing capability within the nation rose to over 156 watts per capita from over 64 watts per capita. This means “constant progress towards cleaner and sustainable power era within the nation,” the report mentioned.

Additional, the variety of waste recycling vegetation put in elevated to three,036 in FY25 from 829 in FY20 indicating a big strengthening of waste administration infrastructure. One other indicator highlighted growth of start-up tradition with plenty of recognised start-ups to over 34,000 in 2024, as in opposition to over 450 in 2016. It reveals robust development in entrepreneurship throughout the nation.

So as to measure the discount in inequality, the report famous that the Gini coefficient of family expenditure has decreased to 0.237 in FY24 from 0.283 in FY12 in rural areas. For city areas it decreased to 0.284 from 0.363 throughout this era, displaying a transparent transfer towards extra equal spending and diminished revenue inequality throughout each areas. Gini coefficient ranges between 0 and 1, the place 0 reveals larger equality and 1 reveals larger inequality.

Revealed on June 29, 2025