various Indian statistics

- position in the corruption index of 133 countries surveyed (2003): 83rd (survey    by Transparency International)  - number of districts in India (2003): 593  - number of families: 192 million  - number of houses: 179 million  - Indian families living in one-room-houses: 40 %  - number of places of worship (temple, mosque, church etc): 2.4 million (more    than schools, colleges and hospitals combined)  - number of gays, lesbians and transgender individuals: 70 million (estimate by    Humsafar Trust)  - estimated percentage of sexually active males in India who have had sex with men    at least once: 25 % (estimate by National AIDS Control Organisation health survey)  - Indian families who own a TV set: 32 %  - illegal immigrants from Bangladesh: over 15 million  - length of the Indo-Bangladesh border: 4096 km [Indian Express Oct 04]  - most polluted river in India: Yamuna (July 2003)  - annual increase of forest cover: 38,000 hectares (according to HP forest    Minister Chander Kumar)  - India's first test tube baby: 1978 (world's second test tube baby); Kanupriya Aggarwal  - literacy rate: 1990: 52 % (61.8% male; 33.7% fem) -- 2001: 65.4 %  - * newspaper readership in urban areas in 2006: 45% of urban population    [DNA Aug 2006]  - * growth of newspaper readership from 2005 to 2006: 12.6million more readers    [DNA Aug 2006]  - * average time spent on reading newspaper: 44 min [DNA Aug 06]  - * people listening to the radio: 27% of the total population [DNA Aug 06]  - percentage of rain during 4 months summer monsoon: 80 % of yearly rainfall in India  - number of NRIs in Britain: 1,3 million (NRI: Non Resident Indian)  - number of Indian nurses working in the UK: almost 10,000 [2004]  - number of additional villages electrified in 2003: 6,350 (acc. to Ministry of Power)  - number of single light connections released to "Below Poverty Lines" family:    over 3 million (acc. to Ministry of Power)  - number of portraits of Jayalalitha by painter Shihan Hussaini drawn by his own    blood: 56 [HT Feb 04]  - India's road accident record 1998: 6 % of the world's road accident deaths happen    in India (while India has only 1 % of the world's road vehicles) [GBoWR]  - death and injury caused by accidents on India's roads: 1 person dies every 6    minutes; 10 are injured in the same time frame [BBC; Sep 2005]  - * India's percentage of global car population: 1% [Daily Telegraph Sep 06]  - * India's share of global car accidents: 10% [Daily Telegraph Sep 06]  - financial losses due to road traffic injuries 2005: 550 bn Rs = 3% of GDP    [BBC; Sep 2005]  - number of vehicles per km in Mumbai: 591 [BBC; Sep 2005]  - number of road accidents in Mumbai: up to 35 per day (with up to 15 deaths per day)    [BBC; Sep 2005]  - number of cars in Bangalore (Karnataka): 1.95 million cars (Bangalore's population    is 6.5 million people) [BBC Sep 04]  - increase of alcohol consumption in past two decades in India: by 106 % [HT Jul 04]