NIRF Rankings
▪ 10th edition of NIRF – National Institutional Ranking Framework was recently released by
union Education Ministry
▪ IIT Madras has topped the NIRF for the 7th straight year. It also remained the country’s best
engineering college for the 10th straight year.
▪ Top higher educational institutions in the overall ranking
✓ 1st – IIT, Madras
✓ 2nd- IIT, Bengaluru
✓ 3rd- IIT, Bombay
NIRF
▪ Launched in 2015 by Ministry of Education
▪ Provides annual Rankings of higher education Institutions in India.
▪ 2025 -10th edition of NIRF
Sample Registration survey Statistical Report -2023 recently released:
▪ India’s crude Birth Rate (CBR)
▪ The number of children born per 1000 people in the population in a year, has declined 0.7
✓ 2022 -19.1
✓ 2028 18.4
✓ Highest state – Bihar (25.8)
✓ Lowest state – Tamil Nadu (12)
▪ Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
✓ 2021 – 2.0
✓ 2022 – 2.0
✓ 2023 – 1.9
✓ Highest state – Bihar (2.8)
✓ Lowest UT – Delhi (1.2)
▪ Elderly population (people above 60) – 9.7%
✓ 2023 growth rate of country – 0.7
✓ Highest proportion of elderly population state – Kerala (15%)
✓ Lowest proportion state
✓ Assam (7.64.)
✓ Delhi (7.74.)
✓ Jharkhand (7.6%)
TFR -Total Fertility Rate
▪ Average number of children a women would bear over her reproductive span (15-49 year)
